Okay, a cool thing. Working on ‘directing’ with my class at EMU, we were playing with Stage Pictures. It’s very energizing to work with students who love the theatre. They were broken into groups, and given 3 words (like Love, Joy, Anguish, Communion, etc…) and charged with A) going to the library and coming up with visual representations of these words/ideas, and then B) after sharing those with the class they had to come up with their own tableau stage pictures using everyone in their group to represent the words/ideas. It was marvelous! We discussed stage pictures, and ‘clarifying theme with staging’, and will discuss further as we work on ‘staging the play’ as our next topic.

Energizing.