NEWSPAPER THEATER (grades 3-12)

In this residency students use newspaper articles as their inspiration for creating plays with a social justice perspective. Through improvisations the class creates a script which is presented as a means of explaining a social issue to their peers and offering a solution that the students have developed with guidance from the teaching artist and their classroom teacher.  Newspaper  theater is a technique created by noted director Augusto Boal.

Ties to: Literacy, current events, image theater, research, multi-media, play writing/devising

Skills: ensemble, focus, concentration, empathy