Lesson Plan One: Experiencing NOH
Topics: Theatre Arts, Acting, Music, Dance, Playwriting
Sub Topics: Cultural Studies, History, English, Reading, Writing
I suggest implementing this lesson directly after completing the Noh segment of this curriculum study.
- Select a Noh play to read together as a class. Discuss the play's dramatic elements as students visualize how its' actual production.
- Using improvisation, select various students to dramatize the different elements of the play before the class (including the instrumentation and use of mask acting). After each Noh improvisation, students will discuss the positives and negatives of each performance as they relate to Noh production elements.
- Divide class into cooperative groups of three to four students. Using the Noh play as their guide, assign each group to write an original Noh play of their own. Each original Noh play must contain the same characterizations and elements found in classical Noh.
- Each cooperative group will perform their play before the class for critic and discussion.
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