Drama Instruction at Santa Catalina School

The Drama Program at Santa Catalina School is designed to be a creative and critical-thinking program that helps students foster a healthy self concept, develop intrapersonal skills, clarify their perceptions of the world, and nurture an awareness of themselves as physical, social, and creative beings. Students are encouraged to develop interpersonal skills, cultivate empathy for others, explore relationships, and enhance real-world communication skills.

Curriculum

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Advanced Drama

Advanced Drama is a theatre workshop for students with previous experience in the performing arts. Each student will work at her own level with no comparison to other class members. Building upon earlier classes, the student will continue to explore and refine various aspects of the performer's art. Topics of the course will include units on multiple aspects of play production, improvisation, theatre games, script reading, theatre history, performing scenes and a monologue.

Beginning Drama

Beginning Drama is an introductory theatre workshop for students with or without previous experience in the performing arts. Each student will work at her own level with no comparison to other class members. Topics of the course will include units on an introduction to Theatre, inner resources for the performer, movement for the stage, improvisation, theatre games, script reading, theatre history, performing scenes and a monologue.

Intermediate Drama

Intermediate Drama is a theatre workshop for students with some experience in the performing arts. Each student will work at her own level with no comparison to other class members. Topics of the course will include units on voice, characterization, improvisation, theatre games, script reading, theatre history, performing scenes and a monologue.

Rehearsal and Performance

Rehearsal and Performance is a theatre workshop for students with previous experience in the performing arts. Each student will work at her own level with no comparison to other class members. Building upon earlier classes, the student will continue to explore and refine various aspects of the performer's art. Topics of the course will include units on acting, directing and producing, technical theatre, improvisation, theatre games, script reading, theatre history, performing scenes and a monologue.