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IMPROVISATION PANTOMIME COMMEDIA DELL’ARTE: INTERNATIONAL:

UNIT HUMANITIES: MONOLOGUES:
Mask Work & Building on JAPANESE THEATRE:
UNDERSTANDING Introduction to Text Work
Character Development Exploring the Role of
ANCIENT GREEK
Theatre in Other Cultures
CIVILIZATION, GREEK
THEATRE & PLAY
ANALYSIS:
History & Analysis
Through ​Agatha Rex
Q1 ​Aug. Sept. Q2​ Oct. – Nov. Dec.
Timeline Q3​ Jan. – Mar. Q4 ​Apr. - May

What are the most What impact does How can mask work help us How can understanding
Guiding Question How can the breakdown of How can I effectively
essential, fundamental exaggerated physicality to better create and the role of theatre in other
skills we need to build in a dramatic structure better present a dramatic work in
have on theatrical develop characters? cultures enhance our own
order to be highly enhance our front of an audience?
performance? performance skills?
successful in theatre understanding of the text?
class?
Lesson Breakdown 1. Community building 1. Introduction to 1. History of Commedia 1. Vocal Development &
1. History of Japanese Noh
activities Pantomime/​Status dell’arte 1. Introduction to Technique
Theatre
Ancient Greek
2. Intro to Improv/Rules 2. Emotion/​Emotion Walks 2. The Art of Physical Civilization 2. What is a
of Improvisation – Comedy 2. Kabuki
3. Gesture/​ Magic Clay 2. Guided research monologue?/Monologu
“Yes, And” 3. Shadow Puppetry e vs. Soliloquy
3. Exploration of Stock 3. Bunraku
3. Physicality 4. Guided Pantomime Characters/How important presentations: impact
is the use of physicality in of the Greeks nm 3. Monologue Analysis
5. Through the Door 4. Bunraku Performance
4. Specificity Commedia dell’arte? 4. Antigone
Project
6. Pantomime overview/Greek 4. Objective & Obstacle
5. Spontaneity 4. Commedia Mask Work
Practitioners Tragedy
6. Viola Spolin 5. Vocabulary & Parts of 5. Tactics
7. Slava’s Snow Show 5. Commedia Lazzi & Duets
the Stage
7. Game Review 6.​ ​Commedia Scenarios 6. Agatha Rex​ reading 6. Workshop-style
8. Simple Action
8. Knowledge Check: Performance Showcase* and analysis rehearsal
Improvisation 9. Pair Pantomime 7. Understanding
Aristotle’s 6 Elements *7. Monologue Showcase
10. Silent Film Project of Drama
8. Understanding Mask
Work
9. The Role of the Greek
Chorus
10. Knowledge Check:
Vocabulary, Parts of
the Stage, & Aristotle
11. Agatha Rex
Performance Project