Performing Arts
The performing arts program at Marin Catholic is designed to assist the student actor of all levels in developing a sense of comfort and ease in front of an audience, a fluid expressiveness, and a broadened sense of the role theatre plays in today's society as well as in societies of the past.
CLASSES
DRAMA INTERNSHIP
Through the Drama Internship program, students have the opportunity to assist on the production end of performances: directing, coaching, stage management, set/ props building, and production management.
Beginning Acting is aimed at building the students' skills in the
following areas: voice, improvisation, physical characterization, text
analysis and scene work from contemporary theatre. Elements of comedy
and its origin are emphasized and explored in the second semester.
Advanced Acting provides opportunity for students to hone those skills through work in more challenging styles of theatre: Greek Tragedy, Shakespeare, Modern Comedy, and children's theatre. Works are explored in their cultural and historical contexts.
Advanced Acting provides opportunity for students to hone those skills through work in more challenging styles of theatre: Greek Tragedy, Shakespeare, Modern Comedy, and children's theatre. Works are explored in their cultural and historical contexts.
DRAMA INTERNSHIP
PERFORMANCES
Marin Catholic thrills its audiences with three productions each year.
In the fall, students take the stage of MC's newly renovated Poetz
Theatre to deliver a comedy or drama, classical or contemporary. Recent plays include Macbeth, Nunsense, The Curious Savage, Godspell, Our Town, Amadeus, and Arsenic and Old Lace.
These fully produced presentations not only give students the
opportunity to further develop and showcase their skills, but they
provide a lesson in the many facets of theatrical production.In the spring, drama students team with MC's top musicians and travel to the Marin Center's Showcase Theatre to present the Spring Musical to a capacity cro
wd. A guest choreographer comes on board to help direct this yearly hit. Elementary school audiences are treated to the whimsical playfulness of the Advanced Acting students as they perform the annual Children's Theatre production. Last year's hilarious performance of Looking Glass Land, an adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, featured a baseball game, bumbling knights, and a six-foot Humpty Dumpty.
