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Neil Gaiman on a career in the arts

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Neil Gaiman gave the 2012 commencement speech at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. It’s all over the internet, but I think it’s very appropriate for you, for your students, and for anyone who is thinking about going into an arts career. When you start out on a career in the arts, you have no [...]

John Cleese on Creativity

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Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating. Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is absolutely unrelated to IQ. Here’s a stimulating and entertaining talk about creativity from John Cleese (of Monty Python fame). It was apparently recorded in 1991 but I hadn’t come across it before. [...]

Title of Show (or what do you mean it’s already taken?)

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I’ve been having an interesting (or frustrating depending on the day) round with play titles this month. Specifically, the need to change said play title. Actually, titles. Three of them. Three plays need new titles. The process of picking a title for a play either goes smoothly or it’s like passing a watermelon. What? Too [...]

Follow this blog

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If you’re into working with youth and those who write for youth, make sure you follow Kids and Theatre: Writing Plays for Youth by playwright Claudia Haas. She is very passionate about Youth theatre and knows the difference between writing a play for students to perform and for students to watch. A recent blog post [...]

Celebrating the Silly Side of Theatre

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This post is not for the weak of stomach, but it is about theatre and it is quite silly. You have been warned. One of the things I absolutely love about theatre is the notion of grown adults doing very silly things at times. For a living. Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage is making the rounds [...]

Lindsay busy time

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April and the beginning of May were some of the busiest weeks I’ve had in a while. I know, I know, I’m not a teacher, a brain surgeon, or a coal miner. But it’s amazing how tuckered out this little brain of mine can get!  I criss-crossed back and forth across Ontario – over to [...]

You know you’re a theatre teacher when…

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This past weekend I posted the sentence starter, “You know you’re a theatre teacher when…” on our Facebook page. We got dozens of great responses from the thoughtful to the silly to the sublime. Here’s the roundup. Enjoy and please feel free to add your own! Merri Kay Thompson Larsen ~ ‎You realize you’re grocery [...]

Find a voice and hang on

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I heard something interesting in a Warren Littlefield interview last week. That in itself is not surprising, the ex-NBC executive had a hand in a huge chunk of my teenage television viewing. He has interesting things to say even though he was clearly not talking naturally  or off-the cuff in the interview- there was a rehearsed aura [...]

Apostrophe’s Video

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Are you sometime’s amazed at how many apostrophe’s s’ome people manage to fi’t into s’entence’s? Then you’re not the only one. That’s just the problem that needs to be solved in this outrageous comedy. This goofy show has an extremely flexible cast, audience participation, and really fun staging opportunities. It begs to be performed by [...]

Too many or too few

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 ”There is a picture of Van Gogh’s of a billiard-parlor at night. The kitchen now suggests that sort of lurid nocturnal  brilliance, the raw colors of childhood’s spectrum. Over the yellow linoleum of the kitchen table hangs an electric bulb with a vivid green glass shade. The poker players – Stanley, Steve, Mitch and Pablo [...]