Catalogue of Critical Creativity Presentation

 Creating with words: Found TyPoetry

            In my future Theater classroom, I thought about how this activity would be a powerful tool in creating relationships with language and considering how the presentation of words is powerful in visualization as well as speaking. I would love to use the activity for students to create devised pieces or to consider relationships with scripts and other texts.

Creating with images: Color Palette

            I loved how this activity allowed students to combine theme and metaphor within the mediums of color and language to emphasize particular ideas. In the classroom, I would want to use these color palettes to have students explore characters, character relationships, scenes, or the progression of a play. I feel that it would be a significant manner to illustrate and break down students’ feelings and responses—a creative analysis.

Creating with sounds: Playlist a Life

            With this activity, I feel that students in my classroom could perform character research to illustrate the tones and emotions that serve as undercurrents of the character, as well as to the scene/script itself. It would be interesting to have them illustrate the progression of the character throughout the piece with varying songs.

Creating with the Body: Tableaux Repreaux

            I feel that this activity in the Theater classroom would work nicely in the creation of stage images, developing the dynamics of character relationships and scene progressions, and examining the emotive and narrative imagery that comes to mind as we analyze a piece. I think it would serve any theater work nicely, but particularly devising.

Creating with Stuff: Book Stack Summary

            I would love to take students to the library to have them engage with a text by creating “book spine poems” based on an inquiry from our discussions or their experiences with the text. They could create a poem that considers a character’s disposition on the events within a play, or that explores thematic concepts or questions.

Creating with Social Media: One Word to Rule Them All

            In the classroom, I would use this activity to have students distill through-lines in scripts into this specified illustration. After identifying spine lines for characters that we feel are central to their being or that are crucial to the themes of the play, we could decide on a word (whether it is in the line or not) to make into a visual, digital representation (while still using the word of course).