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2. Explore the titles and the cast of the plays you brought. cast (n.):
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Ask your teacher for ideas. personajes

For our dramatic reading

3. Choose a play with the help of your with

your teacher's help. Follow the
instructions below.
• Think about how each play makes

you feel.
• Select one play to perform a dramatic

reading in front of an audience. Keep
the number of actors, actresses and
characters in mind when deciding to work
in teams or as a class. Look at the example.

What do you think about the plays we found? This one looks good! It’s called A Midsummer
Night’s Dream. It’s about fairies and other
fantastic characters, it’s set in the woods.

Yes, it‘s good, but most people have seen it. William Shakespeare wrote it.
It’s quite popular. Besides, there are like 20
characters and there are only seven of us. OK, what about The Mousetrap? It’s a murder
We can’t choose that play. mystery by Agatha Christie. If we choose that
one, the audience is going to love it because
Sounds great, but I can’t find the script online. everybody likes to find out who did it!
What if we choose an unknown play? This one
is about a couple of giants in Ireland. It looks OK, sure! Let’s pick that one. Let me see…

quite funny! One of the giants plays tricks on the other one.

Hahaha, really? The audience will like that.
Is it scary, too? Not at all! So we can invite small children
to the dramatic reading.

• Create in your notebook a chart like the one below with information (title,
author and cast) about the play you selected. Look at the example.

Information Example

Title: The Giant’s Wife. A Tall Tale of Ireland
Author: Aaron Shepard Narrator 4 Oona (female)

Cast: Narrator 1 Cuhullin (male)
Narrator 2 Fin (male)
Narrator 3

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