Theater Arts

The Theatre Arts Department at St. Timothy’s performs two productions each year.  Recently, our students have performed Sotoba Komachi by Naoko Maeshiba, Vanities by Jack Heifner, Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, Stepping Out by Richard Harris, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange, and Nunsense by Dan Goggin. 

Theater education at St. Tim’s begins with instruction in the foundations of the dramatic arts. Students learn about dramatic structure, vocabulary, character development, and improvisation. They write plays, perform scenes and monologues, and learn the principles of directing.  Later, students learn the principles of production and development of drama, theater history, acting, and set design.  They perform in yearly productions and direct short scenes.

Advanced theater classes provide advanced acting instruction, theater criticism, and more advanced set design. A unit on voice and diction accompanies Shakespearean scene work, as well as instruction in drafting and rendering for lighting and set design. 

In IB theater, students imaginatively learn to interpret scripts and other theatrical texts from many different cultures and traditions.