THEATRE ADVISORY: COURSE OUTLINE: INTRODUCTION TO THEATRE ADVISORY
- Ice Breakers/Creating Community
- Acknowledge fears and hopes
- Establish classroom contract
- Get to know classmates
- Non-Verbal Communication
- Interpret and create non-verbal language
- Develop acting vocabulary
- Heighten powers of observation
- Introduce techniques of object manipulation
- Vocal Production
- Develop speaking tools of articulation, projection, rate, pitch, and inflection.
- Introduce elements of stage picture and movement
- Group/Cooperative work and presentation of a work by Dr. Seuss.
- Literature study/ Introduction to Dramatic Structure
- Introduce scene structure
- Reader’s Theatre of The Foreigner by Larry Shue
- Characterization
- Combine verbal and non-verbal skills
- Develop improvisational skills
- Demonstrate skills of creating believable characters through thought transition, script analysis, and memorization
- Explore and analyze stereotyping
- Technical Theatre
- Explore non-performing aspects of theatre
- Improvisation/ Status
- Develop listening skills
- Demonstrate abilities to escalate tactics, utilize status, work cooperatively.