The Intermediate Drama Class

Many years and musicals later, as a junior heavily involved with the musical program, my director came to me with an exciting proposition. She’d heard of a program that was being utilized all throughout the world: the International Thespian Society. As the class representative of the musical, she proposed to me that we look into the possibility of our school creating an official chapter of the organization.This program, which would allow students to win awards for hours put into the theatre arts, push themselves to obtain higher rankings on the thespian scale, travel to theatre competitions, and meet students just like themselves at sponsored conventions, was the perfect way for myself and many other students at my school to pursue their love for theatre year round. Being part of this prestigious program would help the musical program to expand by grabbing the attention of students schoolwide with the countless opportunities it offers. The strength of the International Thespian Society would provide a strong base of support for the future of our school’s musical program in a society that continues to cut funding to arts programs of schools

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee was done wonderfully and quite entertaining. While a musical about a spelling bee does not sound like the most exciting thing to watch, the performances by each actor provided a great atmosphere for the production. Going into the play, I was expecting it to be a kid’s show, which kids would enjoy the musical but may not quite get all of the jokes. The 25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee was more aimed at adults. Every adult that was watching the play, myself included, was rolling out of their seats. The play managed to be engaging and funny throughout the entire play. Within the play, each actor has a different background story. Each actor in the play, plays a big role and stood out in their own specific way. Also, this specific play differs from the other plays we have seen but it has few similarities.

The timeline of the drama program is it would start in October and end in May. The program will include teachers and community members as volunteers. Ideally, the people who volunteer would be interested in the arts such as: music, art, dance and acting. But, experience in those fields is not required. The students will have the opportunity to learn reading comprehension skills such as: sequence of events, vocabulary and summarization. The students will choose one book to read and study per month, and the activities will coordinate with those books. The books the children will choose from will vary in topic and difficulty, but will be on the 2nd grade reading level. The drama techniques that will be used are: hotseating, role-play and tableaux.

The student will be able to role play characters from a drama using theatrical intonation, pitch, and clarity within their voices.

“Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances” said by Stanford Meisner. Theatre is an area of arts where you can be free from reality and imagine the impossible. Some of my favorite things about theatre are, the people that are involved, how helpful theatre is and how helpful everyone is, then my last thing is how much fun we have. One of my top favorite things about theatre is the people that are involved within it. Every person has a different personalities, that put together makes a new and neat experience. Theatre is an important part of my life and I enjoy every minute, while I’m there.

The crew sets up the stage, you can hear the quiet rambles of the audience, The music starts as the curtain whirls open. That rush you get of being on stage, or putting a production together or just being in the audience and seeing it, is an unexplainable thrill. In my opinion I think think that Freshman should join Theatre because you can meet lots of new people, be apart of many activities of the school and is very entertaining.

After about two weeks of playing theater games with the students to motivate them and get them out of their comfort zone it was time to begin our reader’s

Before my senior year of high school, I was a very shy, closed-off individual. However, my last year I wanted to change that. The primary way I sought to do this was through participating in high school theater. If I was given $10,000 and 30 days, I, Jacob Smith, would put forth these resources towards the improvement of Roxana High School’s drama department.

When I first read about Ithaca’s Musical Theater Program, I had just watched a clip on YouTube Aaron Tveit’s performance in the 2009 Broadway cast of Wicked. Blown away by his performance, I researched his education and fell in love a program that taught artistic expression as well as solid training as an actor and not just as a musical theater performer. Having just been to London and visiting the West End I was very excited about the opportunity to study abroad and learn British drama and culture. I was also thrilled to find that this program included private voice lessons, basic piano skills, critical analysis of plays, all things I feel I have a foundation in and grown and improve in college. Finally, a Showcase in front of industry professionals

Drama…is all about drama really at first it is about a drama play then things get a little twisted. Callie is the main character in this book but Callie is the name of the main girl character in many of Raina’s books. Callie loves theater so much. When she finally tried out for her middle school's show called Moon Over Mississippi she realized can't really sing. So she decided to be the set designer for the drama stage crew, and this year she's determined to create a set worthy of Broadway on a middle school budget. But how can she, when she doesn't know much about carpentry, ticket sales are down, and the crew members are having trouble working together? Not to mention the onstage AND offstage drama that occurs once the actors are chosen.

Objective: Students will exhibit their understanding of what a dramaturg does by creating and sharing research done on a Television program.

When it came to reading the play as a group listening to the class act the characters out really helped us in visualizing the character’s persona and tone, and how they impact the development of the story and/or characters.

For the past eleven years, I have been involved with an after-school theatre program called Drama Kids of Nassau County. From the beginning, I loved acting because it allowed me to be creative. My favorite acting activity is improvisation. Often, my teacher will provide information, such as a line of dialogue or a prop, and I must act out a scene using the information. In these activities, I use my imagination to create a new world and become someone else. I have received not only pleasure from acting, but also self confidence and public speaking

This semester has changed the way I think of not just collaborative theatre, but the playmaking process in general. This course introduced me to many companies and methods I was unfamiliar with before, and many of them have influenced how I will approach making shows in the future.

Despite the claim that Drama in Education ( DIE) as a pedagogy dimmed its popularity in the Western world since 1990 until 2016 (Gallagher, et al. , 2017), in the year of 2011, Morrow, et al. included it as one of the best practices in literacy instruction. Some of the teachers who had the experience of trying process drama in their classrooms found that the pedagogy improved students’ participations, pushed students to use their imaginations, performed deeper understanding of the topics being learned and made the students learn to have empathy ( Long, 1998). Do the voices from the classroom resemble to what researchers and theories have to say on process drama?