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:

Use this guide to see specific examples of each learning tool. Look at the bullets below each description to see what groups did for Barter’s 2006 production of Romeo and Juliet.

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

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)

  • Frankenstein (Fall 2009 at Barter Theatre)
  • Heaven Sent (Fall 2009 at Barter Theatre)
  • Of Mice and Men (National Tour Fall 2009)
  • Tom Sawyer (The Barter Players, Fall 2009 at Barter Stage II and Tour Spring 2010)
  • Holiday Memories (Winter 2009 at Barter Stage II)
  • Frosty (The Barter Players, December 2009 at Barter Theatre)
  • The Diary of Anne Frank (Spring 2010 at Barter Theatre) Coming Soon!
  • Billy - Goat - Gruff: The Musical (The Barter Players,Tour Spring 2010 and April 2010 at Barter Stage II)
  • The Scarlet Letter (The Barter Players, Tour Spring 2010)
  • Charlotte's Web (The Barter Players, May 2010 at Barter Theatre)  Coming Soon!

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

 

Study Guide Contributors

  • EMBARQ
  • AEP
  • Bank of America
  • Camrett Logistics
  • Citi
  • The Citigroup Foundation
  • Crutchfield
  • Smith Barney -The Meridian Group
  • Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center, Abingdon
  • TRW
  • Universal Fiber Systems
  • Verizon Distance Learning Initiative
  • Enterprise Rent-A-Car Foundation
  • Bristol Virginia Utilities

(e) Learning Game

Have students “Barter for Barter” with our interactive, web-based, fun learning game about the show they will see and compete with other students and schools to win prizes. Topics including literature, history, economics, social studies and theatre production are targeted.

  • Students bartered with the cast and crew of Barter Theatre to gain information in a web-based scavenger hunt that prepared them for the production.

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

Interactive Distance Learning

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 talked with the director of Romeo and Juliet to see how he modernized the script from Shakespeare’s original play to fit Barter’s production

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

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

The Barter Players Shows

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 groupsalesrep@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 groupsalesrep@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 groupsalesrep@bartertheatre.com.

 

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Did You Know...

Did you know The Barter Café is open daily and stays open after the show for sandwiches, coffee and desserts?