Are you wondering what our Lafayette Theatre classes have been up to this semester? Read an update from 9th grade Intro to Theatre and Intro to Technical Theatre student, Abby Thomas below!
"Recently, in our Intro to Theatre class, we have just finished our Voice Unit, where we explored the qualities of our voices and learned how to change them in a variety of ways. The final project we completed during this vocal-focused unit was our Puppet Show. Everyone had to write a script for their own unique show, with two characters who have different and distinct voices. To figure out what our characters’ voices were going to be like, we completed a vocal grid, talking about all of the different aspects of a voice, its rate, qualities, pitch, volume, tone, and more. We have just begun our new Movement Unit to explore more of how movement can impact an actor’s performance.
In our Intro to Technical Theatre class, we’ve been focusing on being introduced to our tools and paint. We finished our Tibbs the Safety Mouse project, where we had to safely use different tools and then use two different kinds of paint as our final part of our Safety Unit. Currently, we are working on our Food Prop Project, where we are tasked with creating a prop plate of food using all non-edible mediums. We started with finding images we can use as inspiration and creating a drawn plan for our plate of prop food. Then, after we finished these, we started to create our prop food using any tool we had learned to use, any kind of paint to make it look realistic, and anything we would want to use to make our prop food.
I am having a great time creating things and working on projects in theatre class, being enrolled in tech and theatre performance has been fun!"
