Theater and Acting

DRAMATIC ACTING

TH10  - 1 Elective Credit - Full Year

 TH10A  -  1/2 Elective Credit - 1/2 Year

This is a full year course designed as an introduction to the fundamental basics of acting. Students will learn memorization, character development, stage movement, voice projection and play analysis.  Students will memorize a monologue and a scene to perform in front of classmates.  This is a great class for those interested in getting help for public speaking too!

HONORS ACTING

TH11 - 1 Elective Credit - Full Year

Students must audition for this class. Auditions will be held before students register for classes.

This class serves as an ensemble-focused deep dive into theatrical production and formal acting training. The fall will be spent reading and discussion of plays as well as rehearsing monologues and scenes. Once a play has been selected for production, the class will focus on staging, character work, and rehearsal for a performance in mid-March. The spring will focus on improvisation, expanding audition repertoire, and devising new work, with the intention of producing a student showcase in late May. Open to students in grades 10-12, enrollment is based on a successful audition and is by permission of the instructor.  

ADDENDUM - REHEARSAL AND PERFORMANCE (See below for credits):

Rehearsal and Performance is designed as a workshop class where students learn to "put on a play" as they actually do so.  The students will be either learning to act in a play or they will be learning to build sets, design lights, create sound or to manage a stage production.  This is a "hands on" experience in every sense of the phrase and students will be expected to put energy and effort into making the production successful for the entire group.  

Course sign up: After audition, the names of those students who make the cast of each play and those who will be involved in the backstage crew will be sent to school Counseling Office Credit:  Each play will count as 1/4 credit and lasts one marking period.