What IcarusPlays can offer you, the Drama Teacher
IcarusPlays is about theatre for the young that is entertaining, sometimes topical and/or educational, but always compelling and challenging.
ICARUSPLAYS is an exclusive club for drama teachers. We celebrate the drama teacher in several ways. Only drama teachers may partake of our site’s benefits. Membership is free. There is no cost or obligation. We hope to forge a lasting relationship with the drama teacher everywhere in our quest to bring entertaining and meaningful theatre to larger and larger circles.
ICARUSPLAYS keeps plays-for-license at a bare minimum. Our royalty is roughly half of what other online companies normally charge. We do not sell individual scripts. You may photocopy as many scripts as necessary for your production. All plays, and a growing list of SHORT PLAYS and MONOLOGUES, are free for classroom use. We value your SUGGESTIONS.
Free Playwriting and Screenwriting Tutorials, on-line and in person on occasion, are provided by William Mastrosimone.
Free Directing Tutorials are offered by drama teacher Mike Fisher.
Study Guides to Accompany our Plays and Enhance the Viewing Experience have been generously provided by our associate Peter Rusin, founder and Executive Director of Health World—an organization devoted to teaching health and health choices to the young.
“For any acting teacher, finding material that today’s kids are excited to work on is always a battle. I think that they felt like they were not only in a play [BANG BANG YOU’RE DEAD] but also doing something really important that could change the world for the better. I thank you so much for all the positive ways you affected my students, artistically, intellectually, and socially.”
–Ralph Colombino, drama teacher Actors Playground School of Theatre
Read more examples of messages we’ve received from teachers, parents and students about BANG BANG YOU’RE DEAD.
Did you know?
Is it unlucky to speak the name of Macbeth in a theatre, or quote from it? According to tradition, it is. Instead it is known as by euphemisms such as ‘The Scottish Play’ or ‘The Unmentionable’. This tradition dates from the first opening night of the play in 1606 when the boy actor playing Lady Macbeth died backstage during the show. Since then the play has apparently been dogged by bad luck.