THEATRE ARTS

Classroom C-219 Lab Room A-114

The Stage and The School  Text

Introduction Unit

Theatre Sports – warm ups

Performing Arts Center defined

History and Tour of our facility

 

Improvisation

Reading/Worksheet/Vocabulary

Lecture

Improvisation practicum

 

Voice and Diction

Reading/Worksheet/Vocabulary

Lecture

Spoon River Anthology voice and diction practicum

 

Acting

Reading/Worksheet/Vocabulary

Lecture

 

Units 1-4 TEST

 

Our Town or 12 Angry Men

Background Packet/Worksheet

Rewrite Scene

Read with parts assigned

Watch movie

Write essay

 

Variety and Structure of Drama

Reading/Worksheet/Vocabulary

Lecture

Steps in comedy study – The Kid Charlie Chaplin

 

Stage Craft

Reading/Worksheet/Vocabulary

Lecture – models, paintings, drawings

Tour of set and discussion of artistic choices

 

Producing a Play or Musical

Reading/Worksheet/Vocabulary

Lecture

 

Units 5-8 TEST

 

Fiddler on the Roof

Background packet

Read script with parts assigned

Watch production

Write a response essay

 

Makeup Unit

Reading/Worksheet/Vocabulary

Lecture

Makeup Practicum

 

Basic Stage Combat

Viewing video series/Worksheet

Practicum

 

FINAL TEST

 

 

 

 

 

THEATRE PRODUCTION

Classroom C-219 Lab Room A114

 

First Quarter

The Theatrical Imagination

Art and the Creative Imagination

The Playwright’s Choices

The Director’s Choices

The Actor’s Choices

The Designer’s Choices

Film Study: culminate in a Video

Reading Oedipus or Streetcar

 

Second Quarter

Reading Literature Circles

The Emperor Jones, The Little Foxes, Winterset, The Glass Menagerie, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Mr. Roberts

Create Original Theatre Piece

Hitting due dates/full participation

Needing to creatively collaborate

Needing to define and share  strengths

You will all need to be self-directed, self-disciplined, and

self-policing to CREATE.

 

 

Academic Theatre 

Theater Arts: Literature and Writing

First or Second Semester Class

Theatre Arts – LW introduces the student to theatre as a skilled art and craft. Assignments and projects are designed for students to gain confidence in communication skills. Students work together cooperating in the sharing of art and ideas. Students are also challenged with individual classroom presentations. In addition to understanding theatre terminology and process, students analyze and evaluate scripts. Through the analysis of a script, the students are given the opportunity to earn credit for the high standard, Arts Analysis & Interpretation. Many lab projects involve learning by doing...through creative make-up, lighting design, advertising, improvisation and scenic design

Silly Warm Ups

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Design Advertising 

   

Special Effects Makeup Unit

 

 

Theater Production Class

Advanced Second Semester Class

Theatre Production will meet in the "Black Box" experimental theatre space. This is a production class with emphasis on originality and creativity. Performance based exploration into classical and contemporary drama is the core of the curriculum. Presentations will utilize multi-media technology expressing artistic ideas in a cutting-edge style. Students registering for Theatre Lab must be highly motivated, confident, and disciplined to see projects through to their completion a quality performance product for the student and community audiences. Successful completion of this course will satisfy the CREATION AND PERFORMANCE PORTION OF THE ARTS STANDARD.

(See Black Box Productions for Theatre Production Class Originals)

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