Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Lesson Plan

Set and Costume Vision Boards

Kind of Activity:

Artistic Response

Objective:

Students will be able to explore the multiple ways of knowing involved in theatrical production

Structure:

Ask students to share the images from productions that they found for homework last night—do these characters and set look as they pictured them? If not, what are the differences? What do they think led the designers to make these choices? Does one image "feel" more like the way they imagined Big Daddy's house, or Mae and Gooper's outfits, than another? Why—what details contribute to that?

Divide students into small groups. Each group should create a design concept for an imaginary production...