Interview-Based Original Theatre
Your group will create
an original theatre performance, focusing on any subject. Examine diversity
in your community, issues important to youth, or violence in local and
global arenas. Participants of any age, from elementary school through
adult, can create and perform original works, with exciting results. Your
people will have a sense of accomplishment and pride as they perform their
own original play, built from the ground up by their own heartfelt dedication.
Email
today for more information
or download a Needs Assessment Questionnaire
to help determine the type of event appropriate for your organization.
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Past
Projects
- Free To Be
Me
- More than 60 Girl
Scouts from first through sixth grade explore what it means to be a
girl in the new millennium. Each girl was interviewed about her likes,
dislikes, fears, hopes, and dreams. The interviews were then assembled
into a 30-minute play, complete with a set and masks designed by the
Girl Scouts themselves.
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- DiverCity:
We All Have History...
- A diverse group
of youth in Muncie, Indiana from various Delaware County high schools
came together for a week to create an original performance about diversity,
race, and unity. The project, sponsored by the Indiana Civil Rights
Commission, was aimed at strengthening understanding after a proposal
to rename a Muncie street after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. did not pass,
causing cultural tension in a city that had a history of racial divisions.
"If you came here thinking Muncie had no unity, we just proved
that it does," said one student. "If you don't see it anywhere
else in Muncie, you've seen it right here on stage." Click
here to read an article about the project.
- Mental Health
Players
- In this project
for the West Central Indiana chapter of the National Alliance for the
Mentally Ill (NAMI), InterPlay Director Katherine Burke interviewed
Lafayette-area people affected by mental illness and transformed the
interviews into a series of scripts for performance at area organizations
and schools, to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness.
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Youth Theatre
Projects
Use theatre to explore
literature, teamwork, or youth issues. Create a play to accompany your
curriculum, whether your students are studying "The Three Little
Pigs" or "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Or create
a play about issues of bullying, peer pressure, or substance use. Your
team of young people will become peer educators and mentors, performing
their original play for their classmates, younger students, or other schools
as they become their own "touring theatre company." Explore
and enhance the diverse talents of your students as they participate in
writing, improvisation, acting, costume, set design, organization, teamwork,
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Past Projects
- Miller Elementary
School
- Third, fourth,
and fifth grade students at Miller Elementary School in Lafayette, Indiana
took stories from their English curricula and turned them into fully-staged
performances that they performed for the entire school and their family
members. The students practiced reading skills, teamwork, memorization,
and creative expression as they enhanced their self-esteem through success.
Their fellow students learned about politeness, being active listeners,
and expressing appreciation for the hard work of the performers.
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- Cary Home for Children
- The Cary Home for
Children is a residential facility for youth who have become involved
in criminal behavior. Over the course of several weeks, the youth explored
issues of bullying, peer pressure, substance use, and communication
through improvisation, theatre exercises, and interactive performance.
The successful presentation of a workshop at the end of the project
called upon the youth to take on roles of leadership and responsibility.
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