Audience Participation in Theatre
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Grades: 7 - 12

Video Description: Katy Keating of Poor Monsters gives her thoughts as to why audience engagement matters and provides an example of how her company pulled its viewers into a show?

Type of Video: Segment*
Unique Video ID: Theatre-129**

Quick Ideas for Using the Video:

  • Use the video in conjunction with theatre students as they direct and perform scenes that require audience participation. What are the unique challenges they discovered as they did the work? What insights from the video might be helpful?
  • Use the video as part of a career exploration unit in theatre. What new ideas about working in theatre do students learn from this actor/director’s experiences?

 

*Segment videos are short excerpts edited from interviews or interactive programs that offer flexible and differentiated ways to use the rich content included in the full-length conversation.

**The unique Video ID can be used to quickly locate a single video in the ET collection. This search function is designed to let teachers assign students to watch a specific video and have only that video appear as a search result. Just click on Search and choose “By Video ID.” Then type in the Video ID as it appears above. Be sure to include the dash.

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