Advanced Theatre
Advanced Theatre ClasS
Advanced Theatre is a class that is offered to 7th and 8th graders who have demonstrated advanced knowledge and dedication to theatre arts. Auditions for this class are created through a portfolio of work in Introductory Theatre or Theatre I. Students in this class are expected to audition for high school theatre, perform at an advanced level, work collaboratively, produce their own shows and participate in extracurricular theatre.
Google Classroom Code: 3c6mofn
Field Trips
Advanced Theatre typically participates in the following field trips:
Traveling Play
This field trip is typically two separate days in February. We tour a show to all four elementary schools that feed into Running brushy.
Renaissance Festival
We will be looking at bringing this back for the 22/23 school year.
Due to the amount of field trips, advanced theatre students are held to a much higher behavior standard.
Featured Projects
New Play Development
Advanced theatre students pair up with the creative writing class to produce new plays. Creative writing students write the script and advanced theatre students direct, design and star in the productions.
Traveling Play
A major attraction to this class has always been the class play. The class will elect to choose a published play or write their own. They will apply to be directors, hold their own auditions, and independently produce their own production to tour at each of the elementary schools that feed into RBMS.
improv and Devised Theatre
In the beginning of the course, students will build relationships through improvisational activities, scenes and games. They will then graduate to devised theatre, creating group scenes with guided prompts.
Stagecraft
Students in advanced theatre get to choose their design project. In the past, we have built tree stumps, rocks, sewing, and old-age makeup design. The class will vote on a project, read the play connected to that project, design, and build.
Musical theatre
Students will create live musical theatre performances. Students are graded on movement and vocals. (Lip-syncing is allowed, but we will go into detail in class.)
If you'd like to help contribute to supplies, the best way is to make a donation through the LISD webstore. You can also check out our running amazon list if you prefer to donate a specific material good. This is for all theatre classes and productions after school. Our students thank you!