I fill my time with many different activities that I enjoy and which have helped to make me the person I am today. They have helped me develop my abilities as a leader and a student, and have allowed me to help others in my community. One of these activities, the one that I have committed the most to in the past years, is technical theater. I have spent more hours than I can count in the theater, working on the shows that Westhill High School puts on. Every year I have helped to create and put on musicals, plays, concerts, and other events inside that theater. In fact, I spend so much time there that anyone who has met me could tell you about my love of theater, even if they don’t know exactly what I do. When I tell people that I do technical theater, most of them …show more content…
Theater changed me, it helped push me into being more confident and standing up for myself. It revealed a whole different side to me, one that I never knew existed. I use to struggle constantly with being too unassertive, not standing up for myself. But when I was stage managing, I was everything that I wasn’t everywhere else. I was in charge, confident, I saw exactly what I can do when I believe in myself. Becoming a stage manager and finding these parts of myself helped me to bring that confidence to the rest of my life. It pushed me to stand up for myself and demand respect from those around me. The majority of my friends outside of theater still don’t entirely understand what I do, but they know how much I love it and they’ve seen how much it has changed me and they support me by coming to every show, although they know they will never see me on the stage. After all, I spend the shows backstage, making make sure that everything goes the way it should -and fixing it when it doesn’t. I’m in charge during the shows and any mistakes that happen fall on me. This can be very overwhelming at times, but I wouldn’t give it up for
Even if I didn’t make it, I don’t think anyone realizes what you learn when training in this profession. Musical theatre has allowed me to step up, commit to my work, become more confident and to have fun! You learn to become focused and pay more attention to detail. Building sets, reading scenes and learning music betters your communication and listening skills. All of these skills I have acquired over the last few years and I they are still helping me to grow. I think my biggest take away from this past summer is to become more confident as a person and in my work. Confidence is a big part of doing musical theatre. Some people having no confidence or a little too much. Trying to gain confidence has made me appreciate my body, the little things and what I do. I have already had many people come up to me at school and tell me that they’re loving my new glow confidence and love for myself. Overall, I see why people doubt the career, but they only consider the outside results. Musical theatre has made me the person I am today and I will never forget
The theater community came together throughout history to influence the world in its own way. When the American people became negatively influenced and less optimistic, Broadway gave them an opportunity to escape their troubles and engage in a different world on a stage. The people of Broadway were filled with hope and freedom to inspire others through their talents in the arts. The talents and love of the arts were passed down from generation to generation to make Broadway what is it today. Despite its rise and fall in popularity, Broadway played a key role in shaping the entertainment industry and impacted American culture.
Although I am a fairly well-rounded student outside of school, I focus on the passions I am adept at: art and music. Creativity and thinking outside the box are skills that I have possessed and have developed over the years. It gives me great joy when I use my artistic and musical talents for the benefit of others, such as playing the piano and violin at a dinner honoring senior citizens or drawing pictures for young children at a Bible camp. Their smiles in appreciation of my service are priceless. My drive for excellence in my passions show that I give one hundred percent in all that I
Technical theatre requires high levels of organization, direction, time management, and flexibility. Being involved in technical theatre requires you to have strong communications with everyone around you. The stage manager especially has to have strong communication skills and connections with the director, cast, and crew, as well as other theatres and companies they may be borrowing costumes/props from. The stage manager will be in charge of the show while the director is away, and is in charge of organizing props/costumes and providing time management for everyone. School teaches us core classes like English, Mathematics, and Science. These are all important skills but this without basic knowledge and development of traits used in a hectic workplace, you would never hold a job for long. Time management continues to be a problem for me and numerous others, but I have significantly improved my time management by timing shows, and making sure actors are in their places on time. Another trait that countless people gain while doing theatre is confidence, confidence in their performance or their backstage craft. While not necessary in an office environment, it is highly looked
Technical Theatre class was a great learning experience for me. When I first signed up for the class, I wasn’t really looking forward to it. I had always been quite clumsy, and I’d never been very handy; so I didn’t think I would be of much use to the set building process. However, before the building process began, the class was taught how to properly and safely use power tools. Being educated on how to handle the equipment made me feel a lot more confident. Now, I’m proud of myself because I ended up getting a lot of work done that I didn’t think I was capable of.
Do you know how it feels to be one of the most important people while not having all the attention directly on you, front staged and centered? How about being the one to answer fifteen million questions and do everything needed while no one can fend for themselves? This is what it’s like to be an assistant director backstage and some of the things I’ve taken from this in my school’s musicals and plays include: self-discipline, time management, leadership, and organization. The assistant director is just as important as a lead in any given musical or play, we just simply do the important things all off stage. I first started off my drama career during my sophomore year when I decided to become part of the crew backstage for our school’s musical,
Then, there is technical theatre. This area of theatre is my favorite and the goal for my future. Technicians are the ones who create the world for the actors or somehow manage everything behind the scenes. Before I explain the multiple fields and areas of technical theatre, I must stress how important this side of theatre is overall. When it comes down to getting a degree in technical theatre or pursuing it, people tend to view it as a purely practical occupation and experience based. Take a look at it in comparison to performance; in a graduate thesis by Christian J. Hershey in 2015, he took a survey of college courses offered for theatre education for a technical focused theatre degree rather than those offered for a performance focused
I’ve learned to appreciate the beauty of how theater is more than a mere performance, but rather an artform with nuance and depth. My knowledge on theatrical styles has expanded and some of my favorites we have studied in class are Brechtian and Chinese theatre styles. I grew up participating in musical theatre, but never had the opportunity to truly learn the history and details of the craft. After studying RENT, I am inspired by the various possibilities for theater beyond acting, singing, and dancing. Theater can be used for activism or as a form of commemoration. Theater is relevant by communicating issues to the world. Theater is so much more than a dramatic presentation. The theater that I have come to appreciate the most are the performances that relay a greater purposeful message about society amidst the theatricals on
There, I had an amazing experience acting in both musicals and straight plays, and gained much more of an appreciation for them. I enjoyed the more comical ones because I felt I could relate to them more. Now that I'm in
While I grappled with defining my position as an actor, I reckoned that I should at least contribute something to the production. After all, I had a slight glimmer of hope that I could still prove my devotion to theater, and I still truly loved the art as well. Yet, amid this need to prove myself, over the course of the show I began to realize and appreciate the technical elements of theater. In the back of my head I always knew that tech was important, but I never understood the artistic value of it. How a hue of light could draw out a certain emotional response or how a set piece could bring an entire audience into a new atmosphere. I understood the copious hours of work technicians poured into their craft, and felt proud to be a part of that precious community that is undermined too often. Even when I was cast a few months afterwards in the ensemble of the spring musical, I chose to be a part of running crew, and ended up feeling more significant in that crew than the actual
Before I started Introduction to Theatre class, I had been only to a couple of plays in my life. Just in this semester I’ve been to about ten plays and have learned so much about the art of theatre. The information I retained from class will help out a lot in the future, but the most important part of this class was the shadowing experience of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. With being able to get an inside look at this play during rehearsal and then going to see the performance was an incredible experience. By going to the rehearsal and then seeing the show, I was able to learn and understand more on how the theatre works. From there, I could understand the long process the actors and directors have to go through before the opening show happens.
The importance of education has always been a touchy subject. What classes and requirements should a student take to get the best education? While many will agree that should always have your core subjects such as math, English, science and history, other classes such as choir, band, and theater have always been left out. How big of an impact do these classes make an a student 's education? Theater, choir, and art classes are crucial to a student 's education.
Theatre will always survive in our changing society. It provides us with a mirror of the society within which we live, and where conflicts we experience are acted out on stage before us. It provides us with characters with which we identify with. The audience observes the emotions and actions as they happen and share the experience with the characters in real time.
For thousands of years, people have been arguing that theatre is a dying art form. Many people think theatre is all just cheesy singing and dancing or just boring old Shakespeare, but there is much more to theatre than those two extremes. Theatre is important to our society because it teaches us more about real life than recorded media. Theatre has been around for thousands of years and began as a religious ceremony that evolved into an art form that teaches about the true essence of life. Theatre can incorporate profound, and provocative, observations of the human condition that can transcend time; lessons found in Greek plays can still be relevant to the modern world. People argue that the very essence of theatre is being snuffed out by modern
A mere mention of the term theatre acts as a relief to many people. It is in this place that a m...