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Whitney High School
Theatre Department
Upcoming Shows
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Fall Play
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Winter Musicals
Our Classes
Acting & Drama
Classes
Requirements Met: Visual and Performing Arts
UC/CSU Approved
Theatre Arts I:
An introductory course that emphasizes development of acting skills. The course includes scene study, monologues/audition techniques, theatre history, and character study. Students view and critique theatrical performances, and apply the basics of playwriting to write and create scenes. Quarterly assignments center around onstage scene and monologue performances.
Theatre Arts II and III:
An extension of the introductory theatre course. Students explore a variety of advanced acting techniques in order to improve performance skills. Students sharpen their improvisational and musical theatre skills. Actors may take this course twice for Theatre II and for Theatre III credit.
Theatre Arts IV:
This advanced-level theatre class focuses on development of a scene for the senior show and pieces for the annual Lenaea Theatre Festival (writing, directing, rehearsing and performing the show, and pursuing acting as a career).
Technical Theatre
Classes
Requirements Met: Visual and Performing Arts OR Technoloogy
UC/CSU Approved
Technical Theatre:
This course is for students who are interested in learning or refining their technical theatre skills. Technical students of all levels are welcome. Coursework focuses primarily on the preparation of the two main stage productions in the WHS theater. Curriculum includes: Designing and producing by conceptualizing and realizing artistic interpretations for informal or formal productions. Technical direction by interpreting and creating dramatic texts and organizing and conducting design concepts for informal or formal productions. Researching by evaluating and synthesizing cultural and historical information to support artistic choices. Comparing and integrating art forms by analyzing traditional theatre, dance, music, visual arts, and new art forms. Analyzing, critiquing, and constructing meanings from informal and formal theater, film, television, and electronic media productions. Understanding context by analyzing the role of theatre, film, television, and electronic media in the past and the present. The areas of scenery, lighting, costume, sound, and stage management will be covered with the expectation that the content specific vocabulary necessary to function in a theatrical workplace is mastered.
Advanced Technical Theatre:
This advanced-level technical theatre class consists of select students working on teams (sound, lighting, stage managing, lobby) to run the technical aspects for all performances and presenations in the WHS Theater. Requires after school commitment.
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