Program Types & Tips Using Drama in Your Program Ideas for Drama & Law Day Here are some ideas if you're considering incorporating drama into your Law Day program. Have a few creative members of your organization write and produce your own show about the law. It can be a serious play or even a musical variety show. Be creative and don't be afraid to use humor! Do staged readings or full productions of plays with law-related themes. Create moot court “trials” of famous cases or local cases of renown, or create fictional trials of characters from history or literature. Examples of these include Hamlet, George Armstrong Custer, John Wilkes Booth, Socrates, Lizzie Borden or anyone else you want to try! Create dramatizations from literature with stories relating to the law. Show a movie with a law-related theme. Structure your program to include comments by local lawyers and audience discussions around the issues or themes raised in the reading, play or movie. Reach out to community organizations to get help or co-produce a program for law day. These might include the public library, community theatre or professional theatre, high school, college or community service organizations. Working with local groups is a great way to build bridges and relationships in the community and help people learn about the law and the work of lawyers! Partner with the local library to present a program on law in dramatic literature. This could be done in the library or in high school literature classes. Create a bibliography of literary works which have law related themes to give to all who attend. (NOTE: Excerpts from plays, literature and movies can usually be used without charge for educational purposes. But check first to see if you need an author’s permission to use a work or a portion of it, so you’re not infringing on the author’s copyright.) >>Using Drama in Your Program Main Page >>Ideas for Drama & Law Day >>Dramatic Literature You Can Use Reaching the Community Home | Program Types & Tips Home