Lake Howell Theatre Company

OUR CLASSES

9th - 11th

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This year long class teaches the rudimentary skills needed to gain a working knowledge of the theatre. Through improvisation, simple scripted scenes, performance projects, and/or practical application, students learn to identify what makes performances believable and explore the tools used to create, articulate, and execute them. Public performances may serve as a culmination of specific instructional goals. Students may be required to attend and/or participate in rehearsals and performances outside the school day to support, extend, and assess learning in the classroom. MONETARY FEES MAY BE REQUIRED.

9th - 12th (AUDITION REQUIRED)

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This year long class focuses on theatre history and will be a continuation of fundamental skills needed to succeed in theatre. Students examine the various dimensions of characters through analysis, discussion, and classroom performance, working with scripts from a variety of time periods and cultures. Public performances may serve as a culmination of specific instructional goals. Students may be required to attend and/or participate in rehearsals and performances outside the school day to support, extend, and assess learning in the classroom. MONETARY FEES MAY BE REQUIRED.

10th - 12th (AUDITION REQUIRED)

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This year long class focuses on the actor. Students will focus specifically on their own strengths and weaknesses in relation to their craft. Students focus on development of significant acting skills and knowledge of the actor’s literature, compiling a working actor’s portfolio for exhibition and/or the interview process. Public performances may serve as a culmination of specific instructional goals. Students may be required to participate in rehearsals and performances outside the school day to support, extend, and assess learning in the classroom. MONETARY FEES MAY BE REQUIRED.

9th - 12th

COURSE DESCRIPTION: The purpose of this course is to offer an exhaustive, even if very selective, overview of cinema history, and explores the basic tools for analyzing the art of film. Throughout the course we will learn how to develop a historical appreciation of film based on a survey of cinematic traditions contained within narrative, documentary, and experimental forms, and acquire a critical, technical, and aesthetic vocabulary relating to particular cinematic practices and structures. We will examine how meaning in films is conditioned by the uses of camera, editing, lighting, sound and acting, explore the impact of technological developments on film production, and evaluate the importance of genre and the legacy of individual “auteurs” throughout the history of cinema.

10th - 12th (AUDITION REQUIRED)

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This year long class focusing on independent thought and in-depth character analysis. These students are required to compete at the District and State levels. Students’ “critical eye” becomes more developed and significant mastery of artistic choices becomes evident. Students are required to participate in rehearsals and performances outside the school day to support, extend, and assess learning in the classroom. MONETARY FEES ARE REQUIRED.