Here is a gaggle venture that may be a nice complement to our final weblog publish, Theatre within the Real World: Theatre Company Profile. Your college students have been launched to numerous theatre corporations, all with distinctive histories, amenities, and inventive targets. Now, they’re going to create their very own theatre corporations, specifically tailor-made to their distinctive pursuits and personalities. It’s time to dream large!
This venture will be purely researched and written, or you possibly can have college students current their plans to the remainder of the category to offer them the chance to follow their oral presentation abilities. If your college students select to do a presentation, they might want to create an accompanying show board or PowerPoint slideshow.
Instructions
1. Split up the category into small teams or companions.
2. Each group will create their very own theatre firm by finishing the next necessities:
- What is your organization known as? Be certain to contemplate acronyms that is likely to be related along with your firm’s identify. For instance, Blue Umbrella Musicals is a enjoyable identify, however you won’t be thrilled concerning the abbreviation prospects use.
- Design a brand on your firm. Include a sketch or digital rendering.
- Where is your organization situated? Why?
- What’s your organization’s mission assertion? A mission assertion describes the explanation why your organization exists. It says what you do and for whom, and it may be as broad or as area of interest as you would like. For instance, your organization would possibly resolve to solely produce musicals. Or, your organization would possibly resolve to solely produce fashionable rock musicals in out of doors venues that function BIPOC performers and technicians underneath the age of 30. Perhaps your organization will function solely new works by rising playwrights. Your firm would possibly exist to offer alternatives and jobs for highschool college students. Maybe your organization will produce exhibits fully written and staffed by girls, or solely exhibits about baseball, or solely exhibits carried out in mime. It’s your organization — you resolve!
- Choose three exhibits on your opening season. Describe why they’re nice decisions on your theatre firm and the way they relate to your mission assertion.
- What kind of venue will your theatre firm require? Choose three present venues that may be nice on your firm to carry out in. Include the identify of the venue, a minimum of one photograph of every venue, and the venue’s seating capability. (Don’t fear concerning the precise location of the venue; that is for inspiration functions.)
3. Information have to be offered in full sentences, with consideration paid to spelling and grammar. For ease of studying, college students ought to arrange their info underneath applicable headings.
4. If you would like, you might also have college students embody an oral presentation together with their written work. Oral displays needs to be not than 5 minutes.
5. Students will full and submit particular person reflections (discovered within the giveaway under).
Extension Challenge: For a further problem, you possibly can have college students current an elevator pitch, imagining that you’re a potential investor of their firm. Groups will determine and describe their firm’s strengths, weaknesses, alternatives, and threats, and persuade you to fund their opening season.