Page To Stage: Performance Making Toolkit For Drama
Late last year The Arts Centre, Melbourne, released a wonderful online resource for drama teachers and students called Page To Stage: The Ultimate Performance Toolkit.
This website is suitable for students of all ages, but I particularly use it with my Year 8 and 9 Drama students. The content is divided into a number of sections:
THINK
- Inspiration – image generator of random objects – great for ideas to create scenes
- Improvisation – drama games and great tips on improv
- Create Your Performance – random generator for performance styles, dramatic elements, performance spaces and theatrical conventions – awesome for extended improvisations
- Playbuilding – tips on how to produce plays through improvisation
MAKE
A huge resource section with:
- Fact sheets
- Video interviews with theatre industry personnel
- Charts
- Tables
- Interactive multimedia
- Images from The Arts Centre, Melbourne, theatre productions
…. each covering the following areas of theatre:
- Lighting
- Costume
- Production
- Promotion
- Set
- Sound
ACT
- Manage Stage Fright – useful tips for any young actor
- Page To Stage Community – chart on a map your school and see other schools using the website
MY FOLIO
- School and drama class registration
- Student blog
- Teacher forum
- Student portfolio
Hi guys is the website down, can’t seem to open the site? cheers
Hi Jamie, unfortunately this website only lasted a few short years. It was a funded project by Arts Centre Melbourne. Pity, because it was a wonderful resource. Even archived “snapshots” of the website on the Internet only land on a placeholder page and nothing seems to work anymore. – Justin