The Room Lesson Plan

Set and Costume Design

Kind of Activity:

Artistic Response

Objective:

Students will be able to consider the multiple ways of thinking and knowing that go into theatrical production.

Structure:

Having studied much of The Room, students will now be able to work with it as a text for a theatrical production. Although there are many reasons The Room might not be as frequently performed as, for instance, a Shakespeare comedy, it's still interesting to think about what would make a full production possible.

Group students, or allow them to group themselves, into small scene groups. Similar to the staging activity, each group will select one of the play's scenes, although...