Marian St Theatre for Young People

NB: This class is for Wahroonga Adventist School Students Only

Learn to act, create and perform. Develop creativity, confidence and collaboration through drama. 

Every week, students work with a professional Teaching Artist to build acting, performance and creative skills while also developing a deeper understanding of the world and of themselves.

Y3-6 Class Focus: Storytelling, Devised Theatre and Introduction to text

In this class students are encouraged to explore their imagination to the fullest while developing voice, movement, character and stagecraft skills. Every week they build their confidence and creative expression whilst developing their performance skills in improvisation, devising (performance creation) and retelling of stories.

Course components

• Investigating character and stories through improvisation
• Working as an ensemble, collaborating with others
• Using your voice and body - diction, projection, body awareness
• Questioning of creative content; the big, the small, the why and the how
• Discovering the elements of play building
• Investigating character and relationships, situation, voice, movement, space and time, language and texts
• Scene work- understanding the scene, becoming a character, working with a scene partner, staging a scene, taking direction
• Turning a text into a performance and creating a performance from scratch

No experience necessary

Class Details

TIME and DAY:  3:15pm - 4:45pm, Mondays, one class a week

LOCATION: Wahroonga Adventist School, The Wedge Room

DATES:   Note that MSTYP classes begin in week 2 of the school term. No class on EASTER MONDAY.

TRIAL CLASS:   Available in the first 3 weeks of the term only. (Select 'Pay a Deposit' to reserve your place)

Performances

There will be an Open Studio at the end of Term 2 informal performance at the end of Term 4.

Cost

CREATIVE KIDS VOUCHERS:     Accepted.

Enter the coupon code "CK50" and provide your Creative Kids Voucher Number in the form.

TERM:                                     $280 for 9 weeks (1 term)

TRIAL CLASS:                        $30 for 1 class. (Amount paid is taken off term fee if you continue) 

FAQ’s

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Got more questions? Contact the office! 9880 2356 or info@mstyp.org.au