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My Experience In Theatre

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Have you seen those kids at school at odd times during the school year aka after school, weekends, and very early in the morning? Or do see those kids that like to frolic around the halls… singing show tunes? Or do they always say something like "Sorry, I can 't I have rehearsal". Well congratulations you know or are friends with a theatre kids. However, it is not all about the aqua net, fake eyelashes and rehearsing your next eight counts for that dance you were supposed know three weeks ago. According to Britanica.com they define theatre as an art concerned almost exclusively with live performances in which the action is precisely planned to create a coherent and significant sense of drama. However, through theatres educational values, the …show more content…

The first skill I learned in my three and a half years in theatre is self-confidence. Before I was in theatre I was on my high school 's dance team, and I really did not feel like I belonged, so I quit the team and decided to join theatre, it was not until the chamber show the first year I joined theatre. I was cast as Audrey Jones (reporter #1) and I had the very first line in the whole show, so through that show and performing in front on hundreds of kids, I gained self-confidence as well as found my voice in theatre. Another thing theatre teaches you is empathy and tolerance. When you are in theatre there are a lot of very early mornings or very late nights, and people or directors get really cranky, so you really have to tolerate them and what they are doing, and deal with their crankiness to get through the rehearsal or the show you are putting on. The final thing theatre teaches you is about real life problems and situations, every day in our lives there is something going on whether it is a horrific event, a …show more content…

Have you ever been to a show and they have an amazing set, costumes or both? Well that 's the job of the technical crew to make the show beautiful. They are the creative minds behind almost every single show, they have to create the vision of the director and almost bring it to life. A good example from my personal life is my sophomore year of high school we did a production of Cinderella, and my director wanted a very whimsical fairy tale like set and our tech director made a beautiful castle and just a beautiful whimsical set that really made you feel like you were in a story book and in the story in

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