question: teaching Russian Conversation by staging a play

[Alexei Khamin]

Greetings,

I am teaching Conversational Russian, and this semester I’d like to try
something new. I’d like to have my students (I have seven in the class) to
learn and stage a Russian play. Teaching through that sort of performative
means is known to be effective as it helps the students to learn not only good
grammar and vocabulary yet also interaction skills, including culture specific
gestures etc. However, I am not sure what text/play would serve my purposes the
best. Obviously, there’re short plays by Chekhov and Bulgakov, yet I am not
decided. I’d like to use a play, which is relatively short (enough for the
students to learn in the course of one semester) and which would have my seven
students equally engaged; furthermore, I want them to learn good yet relatively
contemporary (as opposed to archaic) Russian that they can freely use in
conversation. If any of you, colleagues, have any suggestions and/or would like
to share their experience, I would really appreciate that. Thank you very much.
--alexei khamin


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