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Shakespeare High is an uplifting documentary that follows a diverse group of Californian high school students as they prepare for and compete in the 90th Drama Teachers Association of Southern California Shakespeare Festival. Through their passion and working together toward a common goal that reflects and transcends their ethnic and socioeconomic divides, the dedicated teens manage to overcome their own personal hurdles and history.
The film focuses primarily on under-privileged teens and highlights the life-changing effects drama programs such this can have on young people. The film follows a compelling group of teens with moving and dramatic personal stories, including: Tosh, African-American, a sophomore; Luis, Latino, a sophomore; and Chris, Latino, a senior - all three former gang members from East LA's Pacoima Valley. Nicole comes from a struggling family living in Hesperia, an isolated, low-income desert community. Tommy was raised by his single mother in Hesperia after his parents - former skin-heads - separated. Galvin and Melvin are African-American twin brothers who witnessed a violent family act.
The teen's stories are interspersed with commentary from alumni of the DTASC program including Kevin Spacey, Val Kilmer, and Richard Dreyfus discussing and teaching students hands-on the magic of drama and Shakespeare. Shakespeare High is a riveting celebration of performance education, creativity and youth.
Reviews
"Inspiring. Performing Shakespeare can save children's lives. That is the persuasive argument of Shakespeare High." - Stephen Holden, The New York Times
"Engaging... enormously inspiring." - LA Times
"This film is a must-see for all English teachers as it shows how students can transform their lives when they become involved in programs like the one featured in Shakespeare High ". - National Council of Teachers of English
Award
Top 5 Audience Award, Palm Spring Film Festival, 2011
Specifically designed to raise grades and performance, this Teaching System module correlates directly to state standards and was designed by teaching professionals recognized for their expertise and mastery of the subject material.
Topics Covered
The life and times of Shakespeare
Shakespeare's use of language
Elizabethan drama
The importance of words
Real life vs. stage life
DVD (With CD-ROM) / 2008 / (Grade 7 or above) / 26 minutes
Specifically designed to raise grades and performance, this Teaching System module correlates directly to state standards and was designed by teaching professionals recognized for their expertise and mastery of the subject material.
Topics Covered
The plot of King Lear
King Lear as a tragedy
King Lear
Cordelia
Gloucester
Edmund
Edgar
Goneril and Regan
DVD (With CD-ROM) / 2008 / (Grade 7 or above) / 26 minutes
Specifically designed to raise grades and performance, this Teaching System module correlates directly to state standards and was designed by teaching professionals recognized for their expertise and mastery of the subject material.
Topics Covered
Dual plots approach
The Lear plot
The Gloucester plot
Figurative art approach
Use of metaphor and images
DVD (With CD-ROM) / 2008 / (Grade 7 or above) / 26 minutes
Specifically designed to raise grades and performance, this Teaching System module correlates directly to state standards and was designed by teaching professionals recognized for their expertise and mastery of the subject material.
Topics Covered
Defining tragedy
Oedipus Rex
Medieval tragedy
Shakespeare and tragedy
DVD (With CD-ROM) / 2008 / (Grade 7 or above) / 26 minutes
Specifically designed to raise grades and performance, this Teaching System module correlates directly to state standards and was designed by teaching professionals recognized for their expertise and mastery of the subject material.
Topics Covered
The element of mystery
The philosophy of Hamlet
The element of revenge
DVD (With CD-ROM) / 2008 / (Grade 7 or above) / 26 minutes
Specifically designed to raise grades and performance, this Teaching System module correlates directly to state standards and was designed by teaching professionals recognized for their expertise and mastery of the subject material.
Topics Covered
The tragic fall of Othello
Othello as a tragedy
Jealousy
The handkerchief
Othello as a tragic figure
DVD (With CD-ROM) / 2008 / (Grade 7 or above) / 26 minutes
Young Monash University academics Kim Edwards and Erica Hateley, provide a detailed analysis of this text. The video includes: discussion about the main characters, setting, themes and plot, the structure of the play, how language and imagery is used, different kinds of language and its purpose, the nature of a tragedy and a tragic hero, as well as the supernatural elements of the play. Key scenes are acted out, and will assist students to understand and appreciate this popular play.
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Young Monash University academics Kim Edwards and Erica Hateley provide a detailed analysis of this text. The program includes: discussion about the main characters, themes and plot, the structure of the play, how language and imagery is used, different kinds of language and its purpose, the nature of a tragedy, as well as the purpose of the prologue. Key scenes from the play are acted out, and will assist students to understand and appreciate this timeless text.
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Kathleen Conlin, Director of the Ohio University school of theater, presents a unique and highly physical series of exercises that move from exploration of specific words and phrases through the development of complete Shakespearean scenes. This detailed process enables actors to merge visceral, physical, vocal and imaginative work with the demands of complex text.
Review
"Five Stars! This video is a nuts and bolts building block to support the acting curriculum. It is highly recommended for theatrical arts curriculum at the high school level or above." - Video Rating Guide For Libraries
Who was the man who wrote these plays and poems? Was the author a grain-dealer named William Shakespeare born in Stratford-upon-Avon or Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford? Why was there a 400 year-old conspiracy to hide the true author? This video provides a stimulating and controversial point of view that is bound to provoke classroom discussion and independent study of the Authorship issue. Drawing on original 16th century documents and the Oxford Bible, this film makes a full investigation into the lives of both men.
Almost four centuries after Shakespeare's original Globe Theatre commenced performances in 1599, Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the reconstructed Elizabethan Theatre in June 1997. To celebrate Shakespeare's work and to recreate performances with the original setting and effects for which Shakespeare wrote his greatest plays, the rebuilt and fully operational Globe provides a venue for teaching and studying. This video documents eighteen months of planning, rehearsal, location work and post-production by the Shakespeare Program of the University of California at Berkeley, culminating in this historically significant production of "Much Ado About Nothing." According to Hugh Richmond, Educational Director of the Shakespeare Globe Center, USA and Professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley, "This video showcases some of the ways in which performance on the original Shakespearean stage diverges from modern practice. The broad stage, pillars and accessibility of the audience require a dynamic choreography and outgoing style providing a fresh model for modern theater."
The Greek play was an essential element of the ancient Mediterranean culture, and it eventually evolved into modern theatre. Explore the origins of Greek theatre and learn how the staging of a play changed over the course of time.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
1) Students will learn that ancient Greek plays were designed to provide a religious experience to the masses.
2) Students will learn how ancient Greek playwrights competed against one another for awards.
3) Students will learn about the purpose of the 'Greek chorus.'
4) Students will learn about the physical structure of the Greek theatre.
'Othello' is not only one of Shakespeare's greatest works it is also a text laden with meaning and themes. This DVD looks at the various themes of love and jealousy, proof and judgement, as well as the symbolism in the handkerchief. By playing through 4 key sections of the play, the DVD shows how the themes work.
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The excitement of live theatre comes to the screen in this special Stratford production of Shakespeare's classic love story. Romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love at a masked ball but their love is doomed by an ancient and unreasonable grudge between their families. Stratford director Richard Monette has set the play in the time of Mussolini's Fascist Italy, giving added pathos to the senseless hatred perpetuated between two families. Spectacularly staged and beautifully costumed, this production stars Megan Porter Follows, known for Anne of Green Gables.
DVD / 1993 / (Grades 7-12, Post Secondary, Adult Education) / 180 minutes
This program compares Shakespearean themes with similar themes from modern works, enabling students to penetrate complex Elizabethan vocabulary and experience insight into character's feelings, motives and actions. Film clips from screen adaptations of 'Wuthering Heights', 'Lord of the Flies', 'Mutiny on the Bounty', 'Animal Farm', 'The Lives of Dorian Gray' and others help illustrate themes like alienations, evil and ambition.
Explore the characters, stories and central themes of Shakespearean tragedy. The program is based on an interview with Suzanne L. Wofford, Assistant Professor of English, Yale University, who describes the theater of Shakespeare's day and the nature of Shakespearean tragedy.
Students trace the development of England's commercial and military power, and social and cultural life. This leads to a discussion of early theaters and the operations of the Globe-its architecture, stage design and galleries. Dramatic readings, authentic costumes and sound effects present Shakespearean drama as it may have looked to its original audiences.
Interpretations by Anthony Tudor, Berlioz, Shakespeare
Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." In drama with Bryarl Lee (Juliet) and Stephen Joyce (Romeo); as music with Alice Howland and John McCollum singing Berlioz' setting of key scenes; and as ballet with Nora Kaye and Hugh Laing dancing Anthony Tudor's choreography. Emanuel Vardi conducts an off-stage orchestra.
Introduced by Niccolo Machiavelli, scenes from Shakespeare's Henry VIII depict the king's struggle to consolidate power as absolute monarch. Through highlighting the play's subtext, the film reveals how Cardinal Wolsey, Queen Catherine of Aragon, and Anney Boleyn, each played their own game of power.
The Jacobean Age was fraught with anxiety: man's doubts about the world, the after-world, and his place in them. The drama of the period is revealed in this film through scenes from Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well and Webster's The Duchess of Malfi.
The film holds, "as t'were, the mirror" up to the Middle Ages, for the medieval image of the world survived into the Elizabethan Age. The king-father symbolizing the authority of the past, primogeniture, astrology, and the dowry are all representative of the medieval culture as reflected in Shakespeare's King Lear.
Footage of Stratford-upon-Avon and a depiction of the globe Theatre provide an understanding of the elements that influenced the style of Shakespeare's Macbeth.