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Purchase DQ’s Absurd Toolkit
DQ’s Toolkits are designed to help teachers start exploring a style or form. These have been designed to be used across multiple year levels and can be adapted to suit your learning intentions. Each Toolkit will include:
- Syllabus links
- Definitions of key conventions and stylistic characteristics
- Key elements of drama
- Links to useful websites or resources
- Sample introductory activities, including warm ups or games
- Sample teaching and learning activities
- Suggestions of texts
This toolkit has been created to explore Theatre of the Absurd. While you may be teaching Theatre of the Absurd as is, many of these activities and conventions would also be suitable to be used in a multitude of styles such as:
- Theatre of Social Comment
- Contemporary Theatre
- Contemporary Political Theatre
- Magic Realism
- Comedy
- Theatre of Cruelty
- Dadaism/Surrealism
- Elizabethan tragicomedy
- Commedia dell’Arte
