Teachers & Students

Barter's Educational Tools

Barter Theatre assists you in teaching your students by helping you create your own lesson plan. You may choose any or all of our Barter Theatre learning tools to tailor a curriculum for your students.

Here is how it works....
You choose any or all of our Barter Learning Experience options including:

• Student Matinee Performances
• Study Guides
• Virtual Fieldtrips
• Hands-on Experiences
• Talkbacks
• Tours
• Café Lunches

 

To find out information about any of these programs and to book your student group's reservations today, contact Group Sales at (276) 619-5406 or groups@bartertheatre.com. Special rates for student groups are available!

Student Matinee Performances

Bring your students to world-class productions starring professional actors. Our Student Matinee Program features Barter Theatre’s Resident Acting Company in shows chosen for students. Past productions include Romeo and Juliet, To Kill a Mockingbird and The Diary of Anne Frank. The Barter Players also perform shows especially for students such as The Odyssey and Charlotte’s Web at Barter Theatre or at your school when they tour during part of the year. Student Matinee and Barter Players productions are built to go hand-in-hand with school testing curriculum requirements.

Student Matinee Shows

• A Tale of Two Cities (March 8–May 12 • 2012)

The Barter Players Shows

Coming Soon

• Just So Stories (April 10–28 • 2012)
• Aesop's Fables A NEW Musical (May 1–May 26 • 2012)
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (May 29–June 23 • 2012)
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (June 26–July 21 • 2012)
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (July 24–August 11• 2012)
• Miss Nelson is Missing (October 3–November 12 • 2012)
• Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (November 27–December 22 • 2012)

 

Study Guides

Go online before you attend a show and utilize our Study Guides which include study guides, questions, activities and vocabulary to help prepare your students for the show. Material correlates with specific state testing curricula.

Students prepared for the show with the Study Guide by reading the play by Shakespeare and answering questions such as What is the role of dreams in this play? Then they came to enjoy the show starring professional actors.

Simply click a link below to begin exploring how Barter Theatre can help make learning more interactive. (Requires Adobe Acrobat to open .pdf files)

Available Study Guides:

• Just So Stories (The Barter Players – On Tour – January – March 2012 AND April • 2012 at Barter)
• Romeo and Juliet (The Barter Players – On Tour – January – March 2012)
• The Call of the Wild (The Barter Players – On Tour – January – March 2012)

Study Guides Coming Soon:

• A Tale of Two Cities (April 10–28 • Barter Main Stage)
• Aesop's Fablesl (May 1–May 26 • Barter Main Stage) A NEW Musical
  
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (May 29–June 23 • Barter Stage II)
  
• Miss Nelson Is Missing (October 3–November 12 • Barter Stage II)
  
• Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (November 27–December 22 • Barter Main Stage)

For more information, contact Barter’s Group Sales at (276) 619-5406 or groups@bartertheatre.com.

 

Virtual Fieldtrips

Using a web-based distance learning arts and cultural education network, these interactive on-line classrooms help use a dramatic production as a springboard to discussion that compliments academic performance. With video conferencing available to those who have access to Southwestern Virginia Education and Training Network (S.V.E.T.N), students are able to interact with those responsible for the work behind the scenes such as designers, directors, actors and playwrights. This learning experience is only available to some schools. Contact Group Sales for availability information.

Students interact with Barter actors, directors and stage crew during an on-line classroom.

 

Hands-on Experiences

Get hands-on experience with Barter professionals on everything from acting to mask-making in our show specific workshops before or after the show right inside the theatre.

• Costume designers demonstrated for students how the elaborate costumes for Juliet were made.

Talkbacks

Spend approximately 15 minutes with the actors, designers or directors of the show you’ve just seen, and let your students get answers to their questions about the show from an insider’s point of view.

• Students asked the cast questions about learning to speak with accents or the intricacies of fight choreography.

For more information, contact Barter’s Group Sales at (276) 619-5406 or groups@bartertheatre.com.

Tours

Learn the history of the second oldest regional theatre in the country and see what goes on backstage with a backstage tour of Barter Theatre. See how a show is created from rehearsals to costumes, props and sets with a Barter Theatre production tour. Tours cost $2 per person for school groups.

• Students went behind the scenes to see how the sets are created and where the actors prepare for their scenes.

For more information, contact Barter’s Group Sales at (276) 619-5406 or groups@bartertheatre.com.

Café Box Lunches

Groups may reserve lunches from The Café at Barter Stage II that are age appropriate for your group. Sandwiches are served with chips, a cookie and a canned drink. Click here to see the Student Group Menu.

For more information, contact Barter’s Group Sales at (276) 619-5406 or groups@bartertheatre.com.

 

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