Category: THST 200

I am a big believer of drama in the classroom, and this week in my field placement, I did just that. I had the opportunity to teach an ELA A10 lesson this week on one of my favourite short stories of all time: The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. We...

As a secondary education student with a major in English and a minor in Drama, I jumped at the opportunity to teach a joint ELA and Arts Ed lesson tackling social issues through forum theatre. I began with the ELA portion of the lesson, where students read articles about...

Breaking news theatre friends: Digital Theatre Plus has a staged version of Into the Woods!! So you know I had to watch it to compare! First things first, let’s talk about the pacing. I found this version’s pacing was much better, as it moved quickly but not too fast. The extra...

This week I watched Into the Woods for the first time. I had started watching it previously while in high school, but I couldn’t get into it. In my last year of competing in the Music Festival, I performed “I Know Things Now” from Into the Woods in the musical theatre category and...

Ok, so hear me out. If you want to call me a fake musical theatre fan, that fine, but I insist it is not my fault. I cannot keep this secret from you anymore… I have never seen Mamma Mia! I know, I know. You say what a classic...

This week we took a look at different theatre traditions from around the world. I had briefly learned about some of these traditions in my Theatre 100 class in my first year of university, but we had not spent too much time on it. We had discussed Sanskrit and...

This week, the textbook reading explained the difference between comedy, tragedy, tragicomedy, and melodrama. I had taken a theatre class before, exploring comedy, tragedy, and tragicomedy, but we did not discuss melodrama. I was surprised reading about melodrama, seeing the hold it has on the entertainment world today. Many...

This week we were assigned a playwriting analysis assignment! I choose to dive into A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen. I had taken a very fast-paced English class in the spring semester where we read plays. The professor had told us that she would teach ten plays over four...

This week, the textbook reading touched on theatre critics and reviews. The textbook had a negative view of those who write critiques and reviews without having the ‘proper expertise.’ I feel like the judgement was not warranted. If I am looking for a review of a play I am...

Reading the textbook this week, I began to think about theatre’s properties of being ephemeral in the context of Covid. One of my favourite things about theatre is when you get lost in the performance as you soak in all that is happening right now. The beauty, for me,...