Kenmore West High School

Four Little Theatre Web-Thingys

Your assignment:

In the next few weeks, while working on your PPP, go to these sites and see how real theatre practitioners do things like set and costume designs. Mine these sites for inspiration and practical advice. You have to have 2 of them done (of your choice) by December 20^th, which is also when “your in-progress” check is due. Think of the 250-word assignments as practice in pitch writing.

The Federal Theatre Project
@ the Library of Congress

Your assignment:

Go to these websites at the Library of Congress

Noodle around the production documents to see what a “real” production portfolio would contain.

Make a 250-word comment and hand it in to the hand in folder.

Use the ideas in your PPP

//myloc.gov/Exhibitions/federaltheatre/playsandplayers/Pages/default.aspx

//memory.loc.gov/ammem/fedtp/fthome.html

Ballets Russes Design @ Harvard

Your assignment:

Go to these websites at the Harvard’s Houghton Library

Check out some amazing costume and set designs.

Make a 250-word comment and hand it in to the hand in folder.

Use the ideas in your PPP

The Exhibition:

//hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/exhibits/diaghilev/introduction.cfm

See what other cool stuff they have

//hcl.harvard.edu/info/exhibitions/index.cfm

Cool online Exhibitions @ The New York Public Library

Check out some of the NYPL’s awesome theatre archives.

Look around for what is left of the theatre of the past.

Make a 250-word comment and hand it in to the hand in folder.

Use the ideas in your PPP

//www.nypl.org/locations/tid/55/online_exhibitions

Stuff from the Victoria and Albert Museum

Hey! Theatre in Britain!

The V&A is awesome!Check it out…

250 words

//www.vam.ac.uk/page/t/theatre-and-performance/