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Mini-Productions are Highlights of AP Drama
It's Thursday in Mrs. Rockefeller's AP Drama classroom. Four students are missing and can be found in the yearbook office next door, getting into costumes and rehearsing their lines. Today is their day to perform the illustrious MINI-PRODUCTION. As Mrs. Rockefeller has explained to the class, the mini-production is an opportunity for the students to not only read the plays, but study them, research them, and then perform them before the class.
To make the show more interesting, and at times easier for the class to understand, those students responsible for a particular play double as co-directors and will change time periods, innuendos, etc. The lines do not need to be memorized, and elaborate costumes are not necessary, but it is a chance for the students to have some fun with the material they're studying.
Accompanied by three other classmates, we performed Tartuffe by Moliere. A few night sessions leading up to Thursday helped us plan the costumes, the roles, the playbill and the scene selections. If it were not enough fun interpreting the material, performing before the class definitely made it so. But perhaps the greatest part was standing before the class after the bow, and elucidating the set, the costumes, the scene selection, and the justification for various aspects. While some students picked up on certain elements, others failed to do so. After we highlighted things such as selected magazines, the prominence of the color gold, etc., the entire class gained a fuller understanding of the play.
To incorporate an assignment other than a research paper greatly increases the enjoyment of the class. In such a case as the mini-production, the students want to learn the material. Perhaps so they do not embarass themselves in front of friends, but more likely to cultivate the relationship between themselves and the play. We're glad that Mrs. Rockefeller has maintained the mini-production as an element of her curriculum and hope that she will continue to do so for future classes.
It's Thursday in Mrs. Rockefeller's AP Drama classroom. Four students are missing and can be found in the yearbook office next door, getting into costumes and rehearsing their lines. Today is their day to perform the illustrious MINI-PRODUCTION. As Mrs. Rockefeller has explained to the class, the mini-production is an opportunity for the students to not only read the plays, but study them, research them, and then perform them before the class.
To make the show more interesting, and at times easier for the class to understand, those students responsible for a particular play double as co-directors and will change time periods, innuendos, etc. The lines do not need to be memorized, and elaborate costumes are not necessary, but it is a chance for the students to have some fun with the material they're studying.
Accompanied by three other classmates, we performed Tartuffe by Moliere. A few night sessions leading up to Thursday helped us plan the costumes, the roles, the playbill and the scene selections. If it were not enough fun interpreting the material, performing before the class definitely made it so. But perhaps the greatest part was standing before the class after the bow, and elucidating the set, the costumes, the scene selection, and the justification for various aspects. While some students picked up on certain elements, others failed to do so. After we highlighted things such as selected magazines, the prominence of the color gold, etc., the entire class gained a fuller understanding of the play.
To incorporate an assignment other than a research paper greatly increases the enjoyment of the class. In such a case as the mini-production, the students want to learn the material. Perhaps so they do not embarass themselves in front of friends, but more likely to cultivate the relationship between themselves and the play. We're glad that Mrs. Rockefeller has maintained the mini-production as an element of her curriculum and hope that she will continue to do so for future classes.