Only the Best Intentions

The Integrated Skills Through Drama series is an innovative way to use drama to teach communication skills such as pragmatics, intonation, body language, and rhetoric. Each book in the series is a complete curriculum that can be adapted to fit any classroom and includes pragmatics and pronunciation lessons, guides to blocking and staging the play, improv and rehearsal activities, and background readings on the theme of the play.

Only the Best Intentions is the second book in the series. The play follows the busy Curry family as they prepare for daughter Gigi’s big wedding. Until she discovers her fiancée wants to be a professional computer game player. The family tries to help Gigi decide whether to break it off or support his dream, but in a modern romance the rules of the game change faster than a smartphone app updates!
Besides teaching speaking and performance skills, the play and accompanying readings raise questions about family in the age of screens, tech addiction, and whether esports are a real thing (your students will love knowing more about this than you!). Create a fun, dynamic classroom environment with this new and creative teaching method!