Theatre: Grades 9-12

Theatre Performance

Theatre Production

CREATE: Students will generate, develop, and refine artistic work. 

PERFORM: Students will analyze, develop, and convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

RESPOND: Students will critically interpret intent and meaning in order to evaluate artistic work.  

CONNECT: Students will relate prior knowledge and personal experience with theatre to cultural and historical contexts.

CREATE: Students will generate, develop, and refine artistic work.  

PERFORM: Students will analyze, develop, and convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

RESPOND: Students will critically interpret intent and meaning in order to evaluate artistic work.  

CONNECT: Students will relate prior knowledge and personal experience with theatre to cultural and historical contexts.

Characterization: Create vivid, complex and wellrounded characters that authentically represent the text with defined action.

Improvisation: Develop improvised concepts, including setting, characters, and situation.

Text/Script: Devise an original or adapt an existing work that incorporates dramatic structure.

Direction: Formulate a directorial vision for the text/script as evidenced by an artistic statement or program note. 

Collaboration: Collaborate as a creative team with specified roles to make artistic, interpretive choices in a devised or scripted work.

Oral Communication: Create truthful, authentic vocal choices based on an internal, emotional interpretation of text.

Nonverbal Communication: Demonstrate a character's inner life by utilizing techniques of physical expression and movement to convey subtext. 

Spatial Awareness: Demonstrate effective purposeful character action, interactions with others, and prop/set use within the stage environment.

Public Presentation: Perform memorized text/script/scene that includes blocking and related expressive techniques. 

Protocol: Exhibit developmentally appropriate stage etiquette for public performances; adhere to copyright laws, including rights, royalties, and recording.

Analysis: Critically analyze the effectiveness of character choices for a theatrical production.

Reflection: Assess personal participation in a production through constructive critique using precise theatre vocabulary.

View Performance: Demonstrate developmentally appropriate audience etiquette at a professional performance. 

Cultural Social Context: Compare and contrast how two or more cultural and/or historical traditions impact production, text, or script.

Research: Explain performance choices based on the “given circumstances,” environmental and situational conditions of a theatrical work.

Career Connections: Explain what knowledge or training is required for theatre careers, and how theatrical skills translate to other fields.

Cross Disciplinary: Evaluate the historical and cultural relationships between theatre and other disciplines and how it can impact society. 

Design: Create a selection of documents and/or artifacts for three or more design elements for a production.

Text/Script: Devise required major production and management elements of a script that support a directorial concept.

Management Plan: Create a timeline for executing production elements for a hypothetical or realized show.

Collaboration: Collaborate as a creative team with specified roles to make artistic, interpretive choices in a devised or scripted work.

Design Execution: Execute a specific production role safely and within overall script/technical requirements for a school or public performance.

Tools & Technology: Use Operate machinery/tools and/or control boards safely and as directed under supervision of a teacher/professional technician to support production elements of a theatre work.

Design & Management: Documentation Assemble documents, renderings, and artifacts in a portfolio that includes design concept and working within the parameters of a production.

Public Presentation: Execute a production element in a classroom or public performance.

Protocol: Exhibit developmentally appropriate stage etiquette for public performances; adhere to copyright laws, including rights, royalties, and recording.

Analysis Critically analyze the effectiveness of design and technical elements for a theatrical production. 

Reflection: Assess personal participation in a production through constructive critique using precise theatre vocabulary.

View Performance: Demonstrate developmentally appropriate audience etiquette at a professional performance. 

Cultural Social Context: Compare and contrast how two or more cultural and/or historical traditions impact production, text, or script.

Research: Explain production choices based on the “given circumstances,” environmental and situational conditions of a theatrical work.

Career Connections: Explain what knowledge or training is required for theatre production careers, and how theatrical skills translate to other fields.

Cross Disciplinary: Evaluate the historical and cultural relationships between theatre and other disciplines and how it can impact society.