Look at this, a special post during our vacation!

Well, truth be told we're not really on vacation, just taking a break from the blog. We're working on lots of new projects for the upcoming year. One of which is a weekly podcast that will be available through iTunes. In order to submit a podcast to iTunes, we have to have one all ready to go and post it on our blog. Hence, the special post during our vacation.

The podcast will be a weekly thing, once we get accepted by iTunes... which we don't know when that will be. Could take a day, could take a month. So, enjoy a sneak peak at TFP - The Theatrefolk Podcast where we look at playwrights, performances and the world of theatre from a human (and slightly dorky) perspective. Episode 1: First Podcast In the first episode of TFP Lindsay shares the aim of the podcast and how talking on the mic is going to take her way out of her comfort zone because speaking is not her best feature. She reveals why writing rather than speaking is a much preferred journey; the path from the brain to the pen is something long and luxurious while the path from the brain to the mouth is short and often ends in a flood of stupidity.

QUESTION OF THE DAY: What is your best method of communication with the outside world? Show Notes:

Emergency Lesson Plans for Theatre Teachers

Podcast Transcript

Welcome to TFP, that stands for the Theatrefolk Podcast. I am Lindsay Price, the resident playwright for Theatrefolk. Hello, I hope you're well. Thanks for listening.

Episode One: First Podcast This is the very first podcast of TFP. The aim of which is for me to sit in front of a mike and share what's new here at Theatrefolk Global Headquarters as well as thoughts on playwriting, on performance, on theatre, on the writing process. I have a hard time when it comes to a lot of “theatre” blogs or “theatre” podcasts. And I listen to a number of them and they really seem to approach theatre in a very dry way – very analytical, pedagogical. Nothing makes my eyes roll back faster into my head that the word pedagogical, angry blogs that talk about the death of theatre and I just don't connect to theatre in that way at all. For me theatre is human. It’s a little bit, scruffy is the wrong word, a little bit dog-eared. It's not shiny. I think that’s what I'm trying to say. It's not perfect. It's dorky. It's stuttery. It’s immediate and intimate. I like the human connection in theatre more than splashy spectacle. Maybe that's why I'm pretty small scale in the theatre world because that's my experience in theatre. It's very life changing in the small. So stuttery and dorky suit me just fine. So the goal here is to share the stuttery, the dorky and the human world of theatre.

But first, let's do some Theatrefolk News. So today's feature is our brand new Emergency Lesson Plan eBook. I have seen teachers go wide at the eyes at the idea of an Emergency Lesson Plan book and we've got one specifically for drama teachers and drama classes. It's great for rainy day, for a substitute when you need to throw something in at the last minute. Every lesson plan has an instruction sheet and covers everything from acting exercises, playwriting, theatre history, reader’s theatre. But wait, there's more. The ELP is an eBook. So that means it comes to you as a PDF. The ELP is PDF, say that five times faster. So you can print one off, throw it up on the smart board. We love it. It's very pretty and very useful for the drama classroom. You can find all the info on the Theatrefolk website at www.theatrefolk.com. Look under the resources tab.

This podcast is a very new venture for me. I’m pretty nervous at the idea of sitting and talking. I like doing new things creatively so it's important to do new things, to approach your work from a new perspective, turn things around. I wish I had a different word than thing; turn things upside down. But the idea of sitting down and talking into a mike about what I do and how I...