Tableau Theatre is an instructional method that fulfills two of the most timely needs in developmental education today: enhancing student motivation and providing engaging learning activities. As a form of highly contextualized learning, the use of total body engagement stimulates brain activity, a prerequisite for learning and allows space for a uniquely student-constructed response to the text as opposed to a traditional lecture-style class. In this tableau study, students' written responses to the activity revealed that their physical involvement with the texts greatly impacted their intellectual and personal engagement evidenced by written responses.