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
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