Senior High School Specialized Subject: Apprenticeship and Exploration in the Performing Arts (Theater)
Apprenticeship and Exploration in the Performing Arts (Theater) is one of the specialized subjects under the arts and design career track. Some examples of the things that you will learn from taking this subject include:
- Origins and Elements of Drama
- Elements of Theater
- Performer
- Audience
- Directors
- Performance space
- Design
- Text
- Theater History and Practice
- Theater history and dramatic literature in Western theater
- Asian theater
- Philippine theater
- Regional theater
- Commercial mainstream
- Survey of Theatrical Forms
- Realistic, presentational, and allegorical
- Straight plays and musicals
- Dramatic Criticism
- Skill Development and Performance
- Acting/Performance
- Voice for theater
- Movement for theater
- Acting principles and methods
- Designing
- Production design
- Makeup and costume design
- Lighting design
- Sound design
- Multimedia design
- Directing/Staging
- Stage geography
- Principles of stage composition
- Directing concepts and visualization
While studying, you will also be asked to demonstrate what you have learned by participating in class activities that may include the following:
- Identifying basic elements of theater and describe their use in a variety of theatrical performances
- Integrating different theories and elements of theater in an improvised performance
- Analyzing the structural components of Western theatrical traditions
- Analyzing the structural components of Asian theatrical traditions
- Analyzing the structural components of Philippine theatrical traditions
- Analyzing the structural components of regional theatrical traditions
- Analyzing the structural components of mainstream theatrical traditions
- Describing elements and conventions of staging and performance
- Performing a readers’ theater that will illustrate the characteristics of representative plays
- Evaluating samples of plays to determine aesthetic values
- Distinguishing between the character, the actor, and the self
- Employing different acting techniques
- Performing scenes from recognized scripts
- Directing scenes based on recognized scripts
- Performing improvised scenes with an ensemble of actors
- Producing sketches and miniature studies of set and costume designs for specific plays
- Describing the use of technical theatrical elements in productions
- Designing and constructing concepts for staging
- Understanding stage ground plan designs and principles of stage composition
These examples only cover the scope of the specialized subjects under the arts and design career track. For the scope of the core and contextualized subjects under the senior high school curriculum, please refer to their respective lists.