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Why are healthy relationships important in theater?

Theater means communication and collaboration. Students come together to tell a story and create a collective experience for an audience. When students work together, it is important to maintain healthy relationships within their group. This does not mean that students are all best friends. However, it involves trust and respect,…

Strange couples: creating new relationships

For the next exercise, students will begin by individually creating and analyzing a new character (or analyzing an existing character). Then, together with a partner, they will come up with a scenario in which the two characters would meet and form a kind of relationship. From there, you can take…

Resource: 50 relationship requests

Sometimes, when your students do a theatrical assignment or an impromptu scene, they will need a prompt to help them choose what kind of relationship their characters will have. Many students, when told to create characters with a "relationship", believe that they need to write or make a romantic partner,…