Curated OER
Theatre- The Critic's Review
Students construct a critical review of a performance. In this theatrical instructional activity, students learn why critical reviews are important and create their own critical review. Students discuss their review.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understanding Drama (English 7 Reading)
Learn how to explain a playwright's use of dialogue and stage directions.
TES Global
Tes: Advice for Directing Your School Play Using a Midsummer Night's Dream
[Free Registration/Login Required] This Royal Shakespear Company teacher resource focuses on how to direct A Midsummer Night's Dream as a school play. It offers advice and provides a short summary of each scene followed by questions...
Other
Cummings Study Guides: How Shakespeare Prepared Manuscripts
Learn many of the elements which Shakespeare used, or took into consideration, as he wrote the original manuscripts of his plays. How did he shape the English language with new words, how did he evoke settings when plays used few or no...
National Arts Centre (Canada)
Arts Alive: English Theatre
ArtsAlive provides a detailed look into world of professional theatre. Thematically organized content walks through all the processes involved in "transforming a play from the page to the stage," including playwriting, directing, acting,...
Other
The Stoa Consortium: The City Eleusinion
The City Eleusinion was one of the most important sanctuaries in the religious life of the ancient Athenians. As the urban "branch" of the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis, the City Eleusinion played a key role in the initial...