VIRTUAL CLASSROOM Guided Pathways: Supporting Independent and Directional Teaching and Learning We have created a series of Guided Pathways that can be used to frame lesson planning and directional teaching in your virtual classroom environment. In this guide, the following titles are explored: • The Crucible • Into the Woods • A Doll’s House • A Streetcar Named Desire • Romeo and Juliet • Death of a Salesman • Much Ado About Nothing • Things I Know To Be True • All My Sons • Macbeth Each pathway ensures that you and your students will have direct access to a selection of resources providing an in-depth insight into the studied text as well as language, context, critical analysis, themes, interpretive choices, creative processes, and performance practice. 1 digitaltheatreplus.com INTRODUCTION Our Guided Pathways are much like a map which plots a direct route to a destination whilst offering you a range of alternative directions. If the final destination for your students is to feel secure and confident in their knowledge of a particular text, then our Guided Pathways offer both a direct route and the opportunity to go off-road. However, regardless of the route taken, our Digital Theatre+ Pathways will give direct access to essential content that will support teaching and learning of English Literature/ELA and Drama. Our starting point in most instances is an immersion in the central story within a play text as we feel that this is the best root from which to grow all other knowledge. A deep knowledge of the story of a play enables the student to branch off into other vital elements such as character, context, language, and theme, all of which are surfaced throughout each of our pathways. 2 digitaltheatreplus.com NAVIGATION To help you navigate this guide, we have annotated this screenshot of a production page to show you how to find the resources mentioned: Video player Act selector Related resources 3 digitaltheatreplus.com THE CRUCIBLE The Crucible – The Old Vic © Johan Persson STEP 1: Enter the play title into the search bar and select the Digital Theatre production of The Crucible. STEP 2: Scroll down to related resources and click on Theory & Criticism, select the Study Guide and read the sections entitled introduction to the story, characters and relationship map. STEP 3: Go back to the Digital Theatre production and watch Act 1. STEP 4: Scroll back down to related resources and click on Practice & Practitioners, select interview and watch On Acting: Yaël Farber. STEP 5: Go back to the Digital Theatre production and watch Act 2. STEP 6: Scroll back down to related resources and click on Practice & Practitioners, select interview and watch On Acting: Richard Armitage (John Proctor) and On Acting: Anna Madeley (Elizabeth Proctor). STEP 7: Go back to the Digital Theatre production and watch Act 3. 4 digitaltheatreplus.com STEP 8: Scroll back down to related resources and click on Practice & Practitioners, select interview and watch On Acting: Natalie Gavin (Mary Warren). STEP 9: Go back to the Study Guide and read the sections on language and context. STEP 10: Scroll back down to related resources and click on Practice & Practitioners, select interview and watch On Acting: Adrian Schiller (Reverend John Hale) and On Acting: Jack Ellis (Deputy Governor Danforth). STEP 11: Go back to the Study Guide and read the section on themes. STEP 12: Go back to the Digital Theatre production and watch Act 4. 5 digitaltheatreplus.com A DOLL’S HOUSE A Doll’s House – Young Vic © Johan Persson/Arenapal STEP 1: Enter the play title into the search bar and select the Digital Theatre production of A Doll’s House. STEP 2: Scroll down to related resources and click on Theory & Criticism, select the Study Guide and read the sections entitled playwright, introduction to the story and characters. STEP 3: Scroll back down to related resources and click on Practice & Practitioners, select interview and watch On Directing: Carrie Cracknell. STEP 4: Go back to the Digital Theatre production and watch Act 1. STEP 5: Go back to the Study Guide and read about the themes of the play. STEP 6: Scroll back down to related resources and click on Practice & Practitioners, select interview and watch On Acting: Hattie Morahan (Nora Helmer). 6 digitaltheatreplus.com STEP 7: Go back to the Digital Theatre production and watch Act 2. STEP 8: Scroll back down to related resources and click on Practice & Practitioners, select interview and watch On Acting: Dominic Rowan (Torvald Helmer). STEP 9: Go back to the Digital Theatre production and watch Act 3. STEP 10: Using the gallery underneath the Digital Theatre production, discuss inter-character relationships and interpretive choices. 7 digitaltheatreplus.com ROMEO AND JULIET Romeo and Juliet – Shakespeare’s Globe © John Hayes STEP 1: Enter the play title into the search bar and select the Shakespeare’s Globe production of Romeo and Juliet. STEP 2: Scroll down to related resources and click on Practice & Practitioners, select interview and watch On Themes in Romeo and Juliet: Carol Chillington Rutter. STEP 3: Go back to the Shakespeare’s Globe production and watch Act 1. STEP 4: Scroll back down to related resources and click on Practice & Practitioners, select interview and watch Playing Juliet: Ellie Hendrick and Playing Romeo: Daniel Boyd. STEP 5: Go back to the Shakespeare’s Globe production and watch Act 2. STEP 6: Scroll back down to related resources and click on Theory & Criticism, select essay and begin working through the Historical Context Workbook. 8 digitaltheatreplus.com STEP 7: Go back to the Shakespeare’s Globe production and watch Act 3. STEP 8: Go back and continue working through the Historical Context Workbook. STEP 9: Go back to the Shakespeare’s Globe production and watch Act 4. STEP 10: Go back and continue working through the Historical Context Workbook. STEP 11: Go back to the Shakespeare’s Globe production and watch Act 5. 9 digitaltheatreplus.com MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Much Ado About Nothing – Sonia Friedman Productions © Johan Persson/Arenapal STEP 1: Enter the play title into the search bar and select the Digital Theatre production of Much Ado About Nothing. STEP 2: Scroll down to related resources and click on Theory & Criticism, select the Study Guide and read the section on language. STEP 3: Go back to the Digital Theatre production and watch Act 1. STEP 4: Scroll back down to related resources and click on Practice & Practitioners, select interview and watch On Much Ado About Nothing: Carol Chillington Rutter. STEP 5: Go back to the Digital Theatre production and watch Act 2. STEP 6: Go back to the Study Guide and read the section on context. STEP 7: Go back to the Digital Theatre production and watch Act 3. 10 digitaltheatreplus.com STEP 8: Enter the play title into the search bar, select and watch Shakespeare in Italy: Land of Love. STEP 9: Go back to the Digital Theatre production and watch Act 4. STEP 10: Scroll back down to related resources and click on Practice & Practitioners, begin working through the Practical Workshop Guide. STEP 11: Go back to the Digital Theatre production and watch Act 5. STEP 12: Go to back to the Study Guide and use the keywords and questions to stimulate discussion. 11 digitaltheatreplus.com ALL MY SONS All My Sons – Stanhope Productions © Nobby Clarke STEP 1: Enter the play title into the search bar and select the Digital Theatre production of All My Sons. STEP 2: Scroll down to related resources and click on Theory & Criticism, select biography and read Arthur Miller – at a glance. STEP 3: Scroll back down to related resources and click on Theory & Criticism, select the Study Guide and read the introduction to the story. STEP 4: Go back to the Digital Theatre production and watch Act 1. STEP 5: Go back to the Study Guide and read the section on characters. STEP 6: Go back to the Digital Theatre production and watch Act 2. STEP 7: Go back to the Study Guide and read the section on close text analysis. STEP 8: Go back to the Digital Theatre production and watch Act 3. 12 digitaltheatreplus.com INTO THE WOODS Into the Woods – Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre © Catherine Ashmore STEP 1: Enter the play title into the search bar and select the Digital Theatre production of Into the Woods. STEP 2: Scroll down to related resources and click on Theory & Criticism, select the Study Guide and read the sections entitled the Sondheim songbook and context. STEP 3: Go back to the Digital Theatre production and watch Act 1. STEP 4: Scroll back down to related resources and click on Practice & Practitioners, select On Directing: Timothy Sheader and watch the interview. STEP 5: Go back to the Study Guide and read the section on music that covers composition, lyrics and the book. STEP 6: Go back to the Digital Theatre production and watch Act 2. 13 digitaltheatreplus.com A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE Practical Workshop Guide | A Streetcar Named Desire – Digital Theatre+ STEP 1: Enter the play title into the search bar, select and read the Concise Introduction to Tennessee Williams. STEP 2: Go back to the search results and select A Streetcar Named Desire: Chelsea Walker on Directing, and watch her talk about the play. STEP 3: Scroll down to related resources and click on Practice & Practitioners, work through session one of the Practical Workshop Guide. STEP 4: Scroll back down to related resources and click on Practice & Practitioners, select interview and watch A Streetcar Named Desire: Kelly Gough on Playing Blanche. STEP 5: Go back to the Practical Workshop Guide and work through session two.