244297 Resource 203097 210601 210601 1256592408299 1256592831514 Controlled The Theatre Classroom -- Theatre Etiquette

Classroom tips for proper theatre behavior

Now that you have discussed the importance of seeing plays and writing critiques, the next order of business is to talk about theatre etiquette.  We are living in a time of cell phones and short attention spans, neither of which make good audience members. Watching a play requires the audience to listen and react, not talk, text, and/or eat.  In the early 70's I decided, along with the administration, to have all of Sentinel’s students attend one play a year.  Not only did it introduce them to the wonderful world of theatre, but it taught them that behavior in a theatre was much different than that in a football stadium, a basketball court, or a pep assembly. Incidentally, it also helped finance the drama department.  See Chapter 2 Four ways to help defray cost of production on page 22 in <a title="The Drama Teacher's Survival Guide" href="https://www.meriwetherpublishing.com/CatalogDetails.aspx?cat=153" target="_blank">The Drama Teacher’s Survival Guide.</a>Before the first play of the year I would discuss <a title="Theatre Etiquette" href="item/244294" target="_blank">Being a Good Audience</a> and give each student a handout based on the information that they were to keep in their notebooks.    My Future BlogsI have just been cast in the musical A Christmas Carol so my old bones will be trodding (or maybe I should say barely treading) the boards once again. I will try to get a blog out in November but don’t know how much time this new adventure in community theatre will take.   10 application/xml false drama class drama classroom theater class theater classroom theater etiquette theater etiquette tips theatre class theatre classroom theatre etiquette theatre etiquette tips Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 edassist 63.255.31.98 false true false false true 218193 false false true false false false true 203097 blog blogsite/ContemporaryDrama/web