Theater

PREREQUISITES:

1. See or read three full-length plays. Write a review of each. Discuss with your counselor the plot or story. If you chose to watch the plays, comment on the acting and the staging.

HOMEWORK:

3. Discuss with your counselor the safety precautions that should be practiced when working in a theater to protect the cast and crew. Then do THREE of the following:

(a) Act a major part in a full-length play; or act a part in three one-act plays.

(b) Direct a play. Cast, rehearse, and stage it. The play must be at least 10 minutes long.

(c) Design the set for a play or a theatrical production. Make a model of it.

(d) Design the costumes for five characters in a theatrical production set in a historical time.

(e) Show skill in hair and makeup design. Make up yourself or a friend as a historical figure, a clown, an extraterrestrial, or a monster as directed.

(f) With your counselor's approval, help with the building and painting of the scenery for a theatrical production.

(g) With your counselor's approval, design the lighting for a play; or help install, focus, color, program, and operate the lighting for a theatrical production.

(h) With your counselor's approval, help install, focus, equalize, program, and operate the sound for a theatrical production.

(i) Serve as the stage manager for a theatrical production. Document all cues and stage setups in your calling script.

(j) Serve as musical director for a musical theater production.