Theatre is Action: Teaching a Task-Oriented Intro Class

What is it about?

Theater people like theater because its various tasks are what they like to do. General students, usually with little to no interested in theater, get engaged too as they those tasks—sharing an old family story, reading a few lines, adding a scene to a play, using a simple object as a design concept.

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Why is it important?

An action-based approach works MUCH better than theater appreciation, which insists they like something that they don't, or at pretend to like it so they can write things that please the teacher.