The 100% Totally Improvised Musical! This fall, join the silliness when IMPROV meets a LIVE BAND!
Whether acting or technical theater is your passion, REGISTER for drama at Peninsula College and become a part of the team that produces the 100% TOTALLY IMPROVISED MUSICAL! Students enrolled in this course study the history of theater along with the stagecraft of how to produce live theater from the standpoint of the actor, designer, and playwright.
Students are invited to audition for the Musical and attend. Rehearsal times are generally 5 - 7pm, twice a week. Specific days will be finalized once the show is cast.
Student Learning Objectives:
- Apply Aristotle’s six traditional parts of drama: plot, character, theme, diction, music, and spectacle in relation to excerpts from several significant plays/films.
- List and explain traits that theatre shares with other kinds of performance.
- Describe the basic process of script development and key elements of plot structure.
- Apply basic performance skills, with a focus on “honesty” in character development and action.
- Explain how design and technical production areas enhance and support a performance.
- List and explain traits of theatre itself including configurations and stage shapes.
- Practice costume and set design.
- Perform a monologue and/or duet.
- Write and/or perform a two person scene.