168 stories by "Craig Mason"
I’m thrilled to announce that we’re continuing to expand our free resources page. We’ve added seven new activity sheets, all about Romeo and Juliet. Five are under the Rome…
I never enjoy looking for monologues. It's sort of like a hunting expedition and I don't like hunting. And don't get me started on fishing… But – big BUT – I love when I ac…
Episode Forty-One: Time to Gel Lindsay talks about why artistic ventures need to curb fly-aways. Not that kind of gel! Artistic ventures need time to become the best they can be. Show Notes …
This week’s Movie Monologue Monday is going to look at Ellen Burstyn’s heartbreaking performance in Requiem for a Dream. The movie follows the parallel and intertwining lives …
This month we have an indepth look at the new plays in the Theatrefolk catalogue. From parody to personification to Poe we’ve got it all. Plus, an adaptation lesson plan to do with you…
Episode Forty:Â YouTube Fireside Chat – Musicals We Don’t Know Pull up a fake chair by our fake fire with a fake cup of hot cocoa and listen to Craig and Lindsay discuss……
Today we’re pleased to welcome a guest post from Starshine Stanfield. Starshine writes about the amazing transformation of a school that shunned security guards in favour of more re…
This week’s Movie Monologue Monday is going to look at Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada. In this scene Streep puts a new assistant, who clearly does not understand the fashi…
We’re just paying attention to what happened since the lights went up. Nothing else exists. Dave Pasquesi If you or your students are interested in learning more about improvisation, I…
Spring has officially sprung here at Theatrefolk Global Headquarters. And that can mean only one thing… our Spring 2013 Catalogue is here and hot off the presses. You can download it f…
Episode Thirty-Nine: I Don’t Know Whether it’s the answer to an adjudicator’s question, or it’s what an actor says about certain aspects of their character, the words…
This week’s Movie Monologue Monday is going to look at Herbert Marshall’s internal monologue in Alfred Hitchcock’s Murder! The “internal monologue” is wha…
Did you know that the last Sunday of every month is designated as Free Play Sunday? We give away PDF preview copies of our scripts to our Facebook and Twitter followers. This month we’…
Episode Thirty-Eight: The Rules What are the rules an artist needs to follow to get the job done? What are the rules that must be consistently and fiercely broken? Lindsay talks about some o…
This week’s Movie Monologue Monday is going to look at Madeline Kahn’s performance in Paper Moon. Kahn was nominated for an Oscar for this film but lost to ten-year-old costar Ta…
I want to draw your attention to this great video courtesy of the American Theatre Wing. It’s a chat with composer Alan Menken about his career and his creative process. He talks…
Here’s one of my favourite acting exercises. You start with a list of descriptive characters. Here are some examples: A firefighter looking for occupants. A jealous significant other. …
Episode Thirty-Seven: Welcome the Bad Bits. The path to success, whatever that success may be, is not by looking for the soft and easy road. Success comes when you accept the bad bits of you…
This week’s Movie Monologue Monday is going to look at Robert De Niro’s “That’s Entertainment”  monologue from the beginning of Raging Bull. It’s no…
Romeo and Juliet is probably Shakespeare’s best-known play, and often studied in schools. We’ve been heavily influenced by this play and there’s all sorts of great R&…
This month we conclude our extensive look at Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. It’s time to dive into the language of the play. How do we find character clues in the way a chara…
Episode Thirty-Six: YouTube Fireside Chat. Little Shop of Horrors. Pull up a fake chair by our fake fire with a fake cup of hot cocoa and listen to Craig and Lindsay discuss and dissect diff…
On a previous Movie Monologue Monday I looked at Peter Finch in Network. Â Today I’m going to return to Network, this time looking at Ned Beatty’s brilliant and prophetic perfo…
We’re thrilled to announce the immediate availability of Lindsay Price’s newest script: Shuddersome: Tales of Poe. Shuddersome: Tales of Poe Adapted by Lindsay Price From the wor…
One of my favourite activities on our free resources page is the Shakespearean Insult Activity. I don’t know where it originally came from. Way back in the middle ages, Lindsay a…
