Requirements

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   1. The Audience Experience

   Watching & Reviewing Plays

   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. Note: Watching plays on television, video, or as a movie is not permitted.
2. 2

   2. The Playwright's Craft

   Writing a One-Act Play

   Write a one-act play that will take at least 10 minutes to perform. The play must have a main character, conflict, and a climax.
3. 3

   3. Behind the Curtain

   Theater Safety

   Choose 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:

   1. a

      Acting

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

      Directing

      Cast, rehearse, and stage it. The play must be at least 10 minutes long.
   3. c

      Set Design

      Design the set for a play or a theatrical production. Make a model of it.
   4. d

      Costume Design

      Design the costumes for five characters in a theatrical production set in a historical time.
   5. e

      Hair & Makeup

      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.
   6. f

      Scenery Building

      With your counselor’s approval, help with the building and painting of the scenery for a theatrical production.
   7. g

      Lighting Design

      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.
   8. h

      Sound Design

      With your counselor’s approval, help install, focus, equalize, program, and operate the sound for a theatrical production.
   9. i

      Stage Management

      Serve as the stage manager for a theatrical production. Document all cues and stage setups in your calling script.
   10. j

       Musical Direction

       Serve as musical director for a musical theater production.
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   4. The Art of Silence

   Mime & Pantomime

   Choose 1

   Mime or pantomime any ONE of the following, chosen by your counselor.

   1. a

      You have come into a large room

      You have come into a large room. It is full of pictures, furniture, and other things of interest.
   2. b

      As you are getting on a bus, your books fall into a puddle

      As you are getting on a bus, your books fall into a puddle. By the time you pick them up, the bus has driven off.
   3. c

      You have failed a school test

      You have failed a school test. You are talking with your teacher, who does not buy your story.
   4. d

      You are at camp with a new Scout

      You are at camp with a new Scout. You try to help them pass a cooking test. The Scout learns very slowly.
   5. e

      You are at a banquet

      You are at a banquet. The meat is good. You don’t like the vegetable. The dessert is ice cream.
   6. f

      You are a circus performer such as a juggler, high-wire artist, or lion tamer doing a routine.

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   5. Speaking the Language

   Theater Terminology

   Explain the following: proscenium arch, central or arena staging, center stage, stage right, stage left, downstage, upstage, stage crew, flies, portal, cyclorama, stage brace, spotlight, floodlight, lighting control board, sound mixing desk, thrust staging, ground plans, and sightlines.