Kentucky Shakespeare Presents Twelfth Night - Two Actor Tour Study Guide Grades K - 8 Hear it. See it. Do it. Dear Educator, Table of Contents Thank you for choosing Kentucky Shakespeare to enrich your students’ lives with arts education! We know that the arts are essential to a child’s educational experience •Overview..……………………….…Page 3 and development. It is our object to keep the arts alive •William Shakespeare................Page 4 and thriving in our schools and communities. •Play & Technical Elements.....Page 5 This comprehensive Study Guide includes essential background information on the Bard and his life, his •Theatre Vocabulary............……Page 6 written works, Twelfth Night in particular, pre/post •Play Synopsis........................……Page 7 performance activities, and a list of applicable Academic Standards that are met with this performance. While •Characters.............................…….Page 8 giving additional arts related experiences, these teacher-led activities are intended to broaden students’ •Vocabulary & Themes..............Page 9 understanding of the play as well as how Shakespeare •Activities for Exploration…....Page 10-16 can relate to our own lives. •Pre/Post Tests.............................Page 17-19 Please contact us with any questions or need for further assistance. Thank you for supporting the •ResourcesAcademic & Links.....................Page Standards 20 Commonwealth’s largest in-school arts provider and the United States’ oldest, free Shakespeare festival! 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Our Artist Educators will guide the audience through Twelfth Night as they bring Shakespeare’s famous characters to life in this comical two-person performance. Students will have the opportunity for discussion and synthesis of their theatre experience throughout the performance. Our tour emphasizes the importance of healthy relationships, self-respect and self-esteem, and conflict resolution! How can we both make this be the most efficient and successful performance? including an open space for our Artist Educators to perform and seating students on bleachers • orWe in ask a location that you where create they an environment can easily see conducive the performance. to a positive interaction with your students pre- and post-workshop discussion. They are a fun and an engaging way to enhance learning and allow students to make the most of • theirFor your arts use, experience we have with provided us. these activities for both there are adult staff members present in the room throughout the performance. Students tend to • haveIt is of less utmost distractions importance and arenot moreonly to encouraged your students to participate but to our in Artist the performanceEducators as withwell familiarthat adult presences in the room. 3 William Shakespeare (April 23, 1564 – April 23, 1616) HisBorn Life and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon Attended grammar school in central Stratford where • • children:he learned Susanna Latin, grammar, and twins and Hamnet literature and Judith • Married Anne Hathaway at age 18 and had three • Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career knownin London as the as anKing’s actor, Men writer, and part owner of the playing company the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, later where he died three years later • Appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, His Works William Shakespeare An English poet and playwright widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the • world’s preeminent dramatist Often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of • twoAvon” long (or narrative simply “The poems, Bard”) and several poems • His playssurviving have works been translatedconsist 38 intoplays, every 154 majorsonnets, living language and are performed more than those of any • other playwright Few records of his private life survive and there has been considerable speculation about his religious • beliefs and whether the works attributed to him were written by others • EarlyProduced plays most were of comedies his known and work histories, between genres 1590 he and The Original Globe Theatre circa 1612 raised1613 to the peak of style and artistry • including Hamlet and Macbeth • Next, he wrote primarily tragedies until about 1608, and collaborated with other playwrights • Lastly, he wrote tragicomedies also known as romances published the First Folio, a collected edition of his • dramaticIn 1623, two works of his that former included theatrical all but colleaguestwo of the plays now recognized as Shakespeare’s nineteenth century • Reputation did not rise to its present heights until the 4 What is a Play? A play is a story performed by actors on a stage in front of an audience. These performances combine many art forms—writing, directing, acting, stage designing, costuming, and more. The plays tell a story that can relate to the audience and even teach them a lesson for their own lives! What are the Technical Elements of a Play? Technical Elements are tools that are used in a production to communicate and explain time, place, and the theme to an audience—just like you will see in the Twelfth Night examples of each as well as opportunities to engage your students in each technical area of theatre: ! Here are a few definitions and See It. Hear it. Do it! Costumes Costumes The style of dress characteristic of a Draw your version of what the two different particular country, time period, or people that is costumes for Malvolio might look like (one very worn by actors in a play. can your choices help the audience to show his Example: Sashes of different colors serious and one with yellow stockings). How Sound Soundchanging personality? Music and sounds effects used to create Describe what kind of sounds you would hear in environment and mood. Twelfth Night - music, stormy seas, etc. Example: Music played for a dance scene Set Set The additions to a stage that help the audience to Draw a picture of a scene from the play. Is it a understand where the play is taking place. pleasant or scary place to be? Example: A tree to represent a forest Props Props Items used/held by actors besides costumes and Make a list of props that are mentioned or that you scenery that help in the telling of the story. think would be needed to perform this play. Example: The ring given to Viola by Malvolio Lights Lights Help to tell the audience where the play is taking What would the lights look like just after the place, what time it is, and what the mood is. How would they make you feel as an audience Example: Dimming the lights for nighttime shipwreck? What about in court? member? 5 BASIC THEATRE VOCABULARY Actor- Individual who pretends to be a character in a play; who represents a character in a play. Blocking- The pattern of movement the actors follow while on stage. Characters- The personalities or parts actors become in a play; roles played by actors in a play. Climax- The point of highest dramatic tension or a major turning point in the action of a play. Conflict- The opposition of persons, forces, or ideas that gives rise to the dramatic action. Costumes- The clothing worn by the actors to play the characters. Dialogue- The words spoken by the actors during a play. Empathy- The capacity to relate to the feelings of another. Exposition- The part of a play that introduces the theme, main characters and circumstances. Falling Action- The action after the climax of the plot. Interpretation- To explain or tell the meaning of something; to present in understandable terms. Monologue- A speech made by a single character; often when a character is “thinking out loud.” Motivation- An incentive or an inducement for further action for a character. Playwright- The individual who writes a play.