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April Tvarok said

at 8:49 am on May 28, 2009

Technical Director at Quaker School. Teach grades 9-12 in Technical Theatre classes. Looking for creative ideas and lesson plans in technical theatre. I am also the only technical theatre teacher in the area (Jenkintown, PA) and would love to hear from other teachers about their programs and what they cover.

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Wanda Oberdorfer said

at 7:47 pm on Sep 29, 2009

I'd love to have some ideas too. My technical theatre students are mixed with my stage crafts / acting class or are volunteers who do not take the class for credit. For my students, I have placed a script in their hands, assumed the role of director, given them an idea how I have envisioned the set designs then set them free to create a tech design and plot. We are learning how to use some of the free 3D programs on-line to mock up stage designs...I have them do workshops where the advanced tech students train the newbies...I have a growing library of tech books on stage lighting and sound design. I have them do individual research from these books. They keep a journal of notes from these texts/books/manuals and we have class discussions where they teach the rest of the group what they've learned. My limitation is that our stage is at the end of a "cafetorium" which means we have very limited lighting (one batten of elipsoidals, one batten of fresnels, and two rows of border color strips--There's a great book out there called "Stage Lighting in the Boondocks"...I am convinced the author worked on my stage...it's how to do a lot with nothing! but that book gives great suggestions on how to work from scratch. A great project...assume you have nothing...build a tech design from nothing...build your own PAR cans...etc. ... design a lighting tree...Send me some ideas. I'd love to share

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Wanda Oberdorfer said

at 7:53 pm on Sep 29, 2009

I'd love to have some ideas too. My technical theatre students are mixed with my stage crafts / acting class or are volunteers who do not take the class for credit. For my students, I have placed a script in their hands, assumed the role of director, given them an idea how I have envisioned the set designs then set them free to create a tech design and plot. We are learning how to use some of the free 3D programs on-line to mock up stage designs...I have them do workshops where the advanced tech students train the newbies...I have a growing library of tech books on stage lighting and sound design. I have them do individual research from these books. They keep a journal of notes from these texts/books/manuals and we have class discussions where they teach the rest of the group what they've learned. My limitation is that our stage is at the end of a "cafetorium" which means we have very limited lighting (one batten of elipsoidals, one batten of fresnels, and two rows of border color strips--There's a great book out there called "Stage Lighting in the Boondocks"...I am convinced the author worked on my stage...it's how to do a lot with nothing! but that book gives great suggestions on how to work from scratch. A great project...assume you have nothing...build a tech design from nothing...build your own PAR cans...etc. ... design a lighting tree...Send me some ideas. I'd love to share

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Wanda Oberdorfer said

at 7:35 pm on Sep 29, 2009

Wanda Oberdorfer (Theatre Arts Director. Theatre classes: I - Intro to Acting, II - Advanced Acting, III - Dramaturgy and Direction, IV -
Advanced Dramaturgy and Direction, V - Master Class; Stage Crafts (Included Technical theatre), and...Senior English, Tenth Grade English.
I'm desperately looking for quality short plays (assembly length - 50 minutes) for cast of 14 or more (7 male 7 female). I'm been disappointed
with an abundance of short plays offered in the standard catalogs...and blurbs don't tell you anything...you purchase a copy...and discover
you've got a 20 minute script with not much meat...my kids are after dynamic scripts...any ideas?

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