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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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