What is the Theatre of Ideas?

I am running a theatre career workshop for Teen Girls at a Girl Scout Program. This workshop is only an hour and a half long, and I should be teaching the girls about skills, education need, and careers in theatre. Can anyone help me? Should I teach...

In Theatre Class, we each are assigned to do a solo-act-type thing. It's where we go on stage and pretend that someone significant in our life is leaving out the door (can be whatever: boyfriend/girlfriend, mom/dad, whatever). We can only say "Wait...

My theatre teacher is making us research a theatre "ism" and our assignment is present to the class a display of our ism (preferably theatrical display.) An example: a girl in my class did classicism, and reenacted Oedipus Rex with barbies...

the theatre department at my school does a night of student run performances. This year I have decided to perform a musical theatre song and a monologue. I am 16 and would prefer to perform a comedic monologue, but nothing too cliche for a teenage girl...

A friend and I are doing a workshop on Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot and Theatre of the Absurd. We are struggling to think of workshop ideas/games that explore Theatre of the Absurd possibly through the text of Waiting For Godot. Any ideas would...

Our theatre club wants to put up short impromptu performances in the cafeteria and common spaces, so any ideas for short, attention-grabbing theatre pieces, maybe with live music, singing, audience participation? It should showcase talents and be accessible...

I have to create a timeline of theatre in many different time periods. The time periods are origin of theatre, Greek, Rome, Medieval, Interlude, Italian Renaissance, and English Renaissance. Any creative ideas?

I have an internship at this amazing theatre and a part of the internship is to create an individual project....do you have any ideas? One of the members is directing an all-black version of a Tennessee Williams play (Glass Menagerie) and then an all...

hey, we have to write a little 10-minute play for 6 people for theatre class. the theme is 'nothing is what is seems'. so we need an original idea that incorporates that theme in it....please no ideas that include a murder mystery where the murderer...