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Honing in on the Auditory Elements of Your Musical Theatre Offering
Imagine performing your next theatrical offering for audience members who are completely blind. How can you best serve this audience?...

Marlene Dickinson
Dec 19, 20243 min read


3 Ways to Enhance Visual Storytelling In Your Next Production
For this strategy, think of your story linearly – beginning, middle, and end. Next, temporarily silence the audio, and focus strictly on the visual storytelling: Enhance your blocking with the use of familiar, relatable gestures and physicality. Clarify your students’ acting choices with the physically-base d Laban Te chnique . Spice up your dance numbers by teaching your students various mediums of movement. As i conic choreographer Martha Graham famously said, “The body do

Marlene Dickinson
Nov 14, 20244 min read


3 Ways to Maintain Audience Attention with Visual Variety
Sad to say, but our screen-obsessed culture has conditioned contemporary audiences to expect a shift in frame about every 3 seconds. This presents live theatre with a challenge: How do we capture and maintain attention in the stories we tell onstage ? A shift in frame every 3 seconds is neither advisable nor possible in live the atre; so what can we do? For starters, as a blanket rule for your show, we recommend prioritizing visual variety in your blocking, staging, and

Marlene Dickinson
Oct 17, 20242 min read
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