About the Royal Opera House
The Royal Opera House is an opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London. This video takes you inside set design at the Royal Opera House production park in Thurrock, Essex.
Lesson plan - focus on performing arts
This is a plan for a lesson that can last for a double period of a whole morning or afternoon. Students design a set, in an exercise devised by the National Theatre.
Session aims
- Identify careers in performing arts
- Virtually visit a workplace – Royal Opera House
- Experience and solve a set design task set by the National Theatre
- Understand where to find more information on careers in performing arts
Session resources
- Performing arts lesson plan (PowerPoint)
- Performing arts teacher notes (PDF)
- Performing arts National Theatre design exercise for teachers (PDF)
- Student kit Dream Room poem (Word)
- Student kit box in A3 (JPEG)
- Student kit poses 1 (JPEG)
- Student kit poses 2 (JPEG)
- Student kit grid (JPEG)
- Student kit items against grid (JPEG)
