Theatrical Education at School: “Marriage Proposal”

Theodora Karagiannidou, Panagiota Koukoutselou, Martha Papargyriou

Abstract: This exertion is part of an environmental education and training program offered at our school. Our team consisted of 29 students stemming from all three grades and three teachers, of different fields. The team conducted educational visits in locations related to the program’s theme. Our students used information acquired from those visits and also from the informal interview with our local priest and Professor at the AUTH, Vassileios Kalliakmanis, in order to prepare the first part of our team’s work. The second part of our exertion was formulated by three students belonging to this team, in collaboration with the eruditor in charge and regarded the theatrical rendering of A. Chekhov’s play “Marriage Proposal”. The essence of this labour regarded the presentation of the sacrament of the orthodox marriage and the theatrical play on an event open to the school and local community. The students comprehended the dynamical relation between Art and Education through the utilization of sustainable development in every aspect of human life. Our work belongs to the theme where cutting edge actions regarding the spreading of the arts through environmental education and erudition programs are referenced.

Key words: marriage, lore, environment, environmental education and training program