Study Guides
A Noise Within's study guides are developed to assist teachers in preparing their students for a visit to the theatre. The guides are rich with detailed facts about the playwrights, period, historical production information, and design of the plays. Classroom activities for pre-show and post-show establish firm connections with California Standards and Benchmarks for language and visual and performing arts.
AVAILABLE STUDY GUIDES
FOR ADULTS AND STUDENTS
2011/12 Season
Twelfth Night, Or What You Will, by William Shakespeare
(also see our Shakespeare Supplement)
Desire Under the Elms, by Eugene O'Neill
Antony and Cleopatra, by William Shakespeare
The Illusion, by Pierre Corneille, freely adapted by Tony Kushner
The Bungler, by Moliere
2010/11 Season
- Measure for Measure, by William Shakespeare
(also see our Shakespeare Supplement) - Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
adapted by Neil Bartlett - Noises Off, by Michael Frayn
- The Comedy of Errors, by William Shakspeare
(also see our Shakespeare Supplement) - The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, by Tennessee Williams
- The Chairs, by Eugene Ionesco (COMING SOON!)
Study Guide Archive (alphabetical by title)
- Arms and the Man, by George Bernard Shaw
- As You Like It, by William Shakespeare
- Awake and Sing!, by Clifford Odets
- Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Dear Brutus, by J.M. Barrie
- Don Juan, by Moliere
- Ghosts, by Henrik Ibsen
- Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
- Henry IV, Part One by William Shakespeare
- Henry IV, Part One - Further Reading
- Loot, by Joe Orton
- Man of La Mancha, by Leigh/Darion/Wasserman
- Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare
- The Night of the Iguana, by Tennessee Williams
- Oliver Twist, adapted by Neil Bartlett
- Othello, by William Shakespeare
- Phaedra, by Jean Racine
- Picnic, by William Inge
- The Playboy of the Western World, by JM Synge
- The Rainmaker, by N. Richard Nash
- The Rehearsal, by Jean Anouilh
- Richard III, by William Shakespeare
- Romeo & Juliet, by William Shakespeare
- Shakespeare Supplement
- Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare
- The Tempest, by William Shakespeare
- Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett
- The Winter's Tale, by William Shakespeare