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Middle School Drama As if there weren't already enough drama in Middle School! Sixth-graders meet weekly and seventh- and eighth-graders meet twice weekly for drama class at CFS. Sixth-graders learn drama basics, stretch the limits of their creativity, and stomp out stage fright through Extreme Improv Sports (fast and furious acting without a script). Seventh-graders create advanced characters, write complex dramas in scene building groups, and finally take on "A Midsummer Night's Dream" as a Dessert Theatre production. Sixth- and seventh-graders also take part in many "process dramas," which ask students to be in-role as a decision-making body (tribal elders on an uncharted island, town members at an emergency meeting, for example). These activities are rehearsals for Middle |
Eighth-graders travel through time and space, exploring ancient and contemporary drama from all over the world. Students use this combination of old and new to create a multi-media production of "Othello." Later in the year, audiences will laugh and cry, be chilled and thrilled, by the Spring Play, written by the students themselves. Eighth-graders "build" an original play through a process of group work, improvisation, self-scripting, exercises in monologue and dialogue, tableaux, and a myriad of other dramatic forms. |
