Theatre Classes Offered
- Honors Proficient Theatre, 1st Years:
- Utilize staging techniques to tell a story through blocking
- Develop pantomime skills & other movement theories to create distinct character physicalities
- Write short scripts for informal performance as a means of understanding play text
- Strengthen and hone one’s ability to vary vocal expression and improve vocal clarity and volume
- Learn about and experience improvisation as an art form and as a character development tool
- Study one’s facial expressions and further define this actor tool for any performance space
- Practice various auditioning scenarios through the acquisition of new techniques
- Re-live Ancient Greek Theatre and its impact on performance media today
- Explore the various technical theatre roles and gain skills from various jobs of the theatre
- Perform monologues and scenes for informal and formal performance to put newly acquired abilities to use
- Honors Proficient Theatre, 2nd Years:
- Study the Laban movement theory and utilize it to develop complex character physicalities
- Explore the Renaissance period style of theatre, Commedia del'Arte, and the stock characters' relevance to modern comedy performance techniques
- Write a "blank" script for informal performance as a means of understanding the different directing techniques in a comedy vs. a tragedy
- Strengthen vocal variety through solo work that requires preparing & portraying multiple character voices
- Expand audition techniques, focusing on quick character analysis in cold reading scenarios
- Score a script for formal performance to analyze character's objectives, obstacles, and tactics that are then used to influenced acting choices
- Learn design principles and concepts and the online tools available to inspire future designs
- Design a set for an existing play, illustrating one's choices through ground plans and elevations
- Perform a Shakespearean monologue from A Midsummer Night's Dream, gaining skills in complex literary analysis
- Create a solo pantomime that illustrates one character's important life moments through vignettes that are accompanied by a music playlist designed by the performer to evoke desired emotions in the audience
- Honors Advanced Theatre, 3rd & 4th Years:
- Plan a complex plot line for a one-act play, develop dynamic character bios for the play, and work as a team to write the script
- Compete at the North Carolina Theatre Conference among other theatre programs across the state, receiving professional theatre artisans' feedback, and critiquing the other performances at the competition
- Research possible plays for production, collaborate with peers to discuss and debate options, and finally choose a play for formal performance
- Explore children's theatre genre and the specific acting, directing, and design techniques that are exclusive to this specific audience
- Coach and support first year theatre students in their first formal performance
- Participate at the North Carolina Thespian Festival, competing in various solo and group events, attending master workshops, and critiquing other troupes' performances at the festival
- Learn about and master dialects for specific playwrights' collection of their full works (Tennessee Williams or Oscar Wilde)
- Honors Technical Theatre:
- This specialized, hands-on theatre course is for the student interested in art, building, sewing, painting, etc.
- Learn how to design and construct for various theatre pieces through hypothetical and real-life technical theatre projects
- Engage in projects that challenge each student to create the world of the play via the set, costumes, props, make-up, lights, and sound of various productions
- Gain specific knowledge of power tools, sewing techniques, painting procedures, and sound and lighting equipment that are applicable beyond the theatre classroom
- Work as a team on each assignment, focusing on ensemble behind the scenes to bring the play to life
- Participate in at least one formal production as a running crew member
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