Theatre Courses at Chattahoochee
Chattahoochee High School offers multiple theatre courses emphasizing all parts of theatre production and performance. Through these courses we emphasize understanding of how theater is produced and performed as well as the importance of understanding what it means to be an artist.
Fundamentals of Theatre provides students with the basic understanding of how and why theatre is created. Students will learn the history of theatre from early Greek times to present day, basic acting skills and techniques, improv practices, the process of writing and creating a piece of theatre, and basic technical theatre skills.
This class is a required pre-requisite for Advanced Drama.
In this course, students will continue their understanding of performing existing texts as well as the process of crafting new stories to be told onstage. Students will be introduced to the acting techniques of Konstantin Stanislavski, Stella Adler, Sanford Meisner, and other formidable acting teachers and schools as well as movement based techniques such as Laban movement and the teachings of Kristin Linklater.
Students will have multiple audition and performance opportunities throughout the year. The fall one-act play and spring play are produced in this class, and all students will participate in these productions.
In Musical Theatre 1, students are introduced to the concepts of musical theatre, including basic music theory and performance, learning and performing choreography, fundamental acting techniques, and performing as an ensemble.
Musical Theatre 2-4 continues to expand the student's understanding of musical theatre as an art form and performance style. Students will dive deeper into the history of musical theatre, learn and perform musical theatre repertoire, and perform in the full-length winter musical.
If you want to be a part of our productions but don't want to perform, Tech Theatre may be the perfect class for you! In this cutting edge class, students will experience and engage with all technical aspects of creating a theatrical production. Students will program sound and lights, design and build sets and costumes, develop marketing and create props for all 4 major productions in the department.
In Dramatic Writing students will apply skills that will culminate in creating and developing dramatic writing for theatrical and digital media. Students will develop “writerly stance” by reading, viewing, and analyzing texts and visual media from a writer’s point of view, with focus on understanding the construction process and including the application of conventions of standard English grammar and usage. This course meets fourth English Language Arts core requirements for 12th grade and also earn a Fine Arts credit (2.0 total credit earned for the course).