1st 6 weeks Advanced Theatre Arts

Aug 28- Sept 1

Day 1 Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it. ~Vincent Van Gogh, 1889

Subject introduction. (Rules & Policy, coarse syllabus, materials, ECT)

Theatre Vocabulary week 1

Intro to Auditioning.

Day one questions.

Day 2 The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. ~Khalil Gibran

Intro to Auditioning. The First audition.

Day 3 Feelings are like toes! They have to breathe free or they'll stink to high heaven! ~Animal Crossing: Wild World

Intro to Auditioning. Practice rounds.

Day 4 Music!—who loves it not? who has not felt his soul soothed and softened by its sweet influence? ~F.B.

Intro to Auditioning. Practice rounds.

Day 5

Improve with Improve! (Theatre Games)

Sept 5 -8

labor Day

Day 6 Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. ~Jim Davis

Theatre Vocabulary week 2

Caveman story telling. (Assignment)

Day 7 The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. ~Anaïs Nin

The Origins of theatre (Worksheet & Class Discussion)

Rehearse your Caveman performances

Day 8 The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. ~Elbert Hubbard,

The Origins of theatre Due.

Rehearse your Caveman performances

Day 9

Presenting the Caveman performances

Improve with Improve! (Theatre Games)

Sept 11 - 15

Day 10

Presenting the Caveman performances

Day 11

Presenting the Caveman performances

Day 12

Improve with Improve! (Theatre Games)

Day 13

The lives and plays of the Greek Authors. due. Day 15

Day 14

The Greek Period introduction.

Working on Greek Authors.

The greek Authors.

Plays

Aeschylus

Euripides

Sophocles

Working on Greek Authors. (continued)

Improve with improve! (Theatre Games)

Sept 18 - 22

Day 15

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. " Aristotle

Theatre Vocabulary week 4

first 50 words memorization due.

Monologue practice. Audience criticism.

Day 16

Day 17

The Greek Monologue Memorization grade. first 70 words.

individual memorization time.

Day 18

The Greek monologue

Reading and performing a Greek monologues.

Monologue selection and practice.

Medea

Oedipus

Day 19

Theatre Vocabulary

Improve with Improve! (Theatre Games)

Sept 25 - 29

Day 20

first 100 words memorization due.

Large group Monologue selection practice with peer criticism

Selected Greek Reading

Medea

Oedipus

Day 21

Monologue Practice

Day 22

Monologue Practice

Day 23

Monologue Practice

Day 24

Theatre Vocabulary

Improve with Improve! (Theatre Games)

OCT 2 - 6

Day 25

Monologue Rehearsal

Day 26

Monologue Rehearsal

The Greek Period introduction.

Day 27

Final Monologue memorization

Day 28

Monologue Rehearsal

Day 29

Improve with Improve! (Theatre Games)

Theatre Vocabulary week 4

Theatre Vocabulary week 5

Theatre Vocabulary week 6

The lives and plays of the Greek Authors Public Reading.