Educational Resources / Outreach Guides
Everything needed to take the comedia out of the university and into a school: how to plan the visit, what to hand out once you are there, and who these playwrights were. Eight documents, all free to download.
What to settle before the day itself.
Outreach Handbook
The full handbook for taking a company into a school, from the first phone call to the day itself.
Outline for Outreach
The running order of a session: the questions that open it, why the Golden Age is worth their time, what a comedia is, a scene, and one improvised on the spot.
Workshop Outline
The hour-by-hour program of a teachers workshop, from the opening scene to the closing session, usable as a model for your own.
What the students take away with them.
Outreach Packet, El caballero de Olmedo
A complete study guide for primary school: plot summaries of two plays, glossary, a comic, three lesson plans, discussion questions, worksheets and overheads.
Theater Terminology
The vocabulary of the stage, each term defined first in Spanish and then in English.
Theater Organization
Who does what in a company, on a single sheet: producer, director, playwright, publicity, scenery, wardrobe, lighting, machinist.
The same life in two shapes, so you can pick the one your class needs.
Agustín Moreto y Cabaña
Janey Butler
Moreto told as a short piece: Italian parents, law at Alcalá, more than a hundred plays, and the monastery he entered at forty-one.
Agustín Moreto y Cabaña, bulleted
Janey Butler
The same life in numbered points, ready to hand out, project, or cut up as cards.
Why any of this matters
Why We Do Outreach explains what a Golden Age play can give a heritage speaker who feels out of place in an English-only classroom. It is on the Essays page.
Have you run an outreach session that worked? Write to us at secretary@comedias.org and we will add your material.
