SARAH PLOTKIN
  • Home
  • About
  • Current Work
  • Projects
  • Teaching
  • Contact

Current Work

The Nest

2/9/2021

0 Comments

 
Picture
I just finished directing a really fun devised show with high school students at Beaver Country Day School in Boston.  It's streaming on the school's website through the end of February 2021!  bcdschool.org/2021/02/the-nest-us-winter-play/ 

The Nest is a show made up of stories about home. And “home” is a complicated, beautiful, challenging thing, especially right now. Home means different things to different people—we wanted to make space for all of this in putting the show together. For that reason, we were loosely inspired by the structure of the radio show This American Life, which has a weekly theme and brings together different (mostly true) stories exploring that theme. The Nest follows a similar structure, and the students act as hosts, guiding the audience through the stories.

The stories in the show were created through a process called devising in which we used writing, storytelling, movement, and visual art prompts to build the script. This is a collaborative process where all students have the opportunity to be playwrights, performers and designers, and we were able to celebrate each individual’s unique skills and perspectives.
0 Comments

    Archives

    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    November 2021
    August 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    February 2021
    October 2020
    September 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    November 2019
    September 2019
    March 2019
    May 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    May 2017
    February 2017
    November 2016
    September 2016
    May 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    December 2015
    October 2015
    August 2015
    June 2015
    January 2015
    August 2014

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Home
  • About
  • Current Work
  • Projects
  • Teaching
  • Contact