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Curriculum developed for the individual child LEFT AND ABOVE PHOTOS, JAMES BARKER PHOTOGRAPHY; RIGHT, PHIL MOSIER
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A: Riverwood International Charter School Theater members pose with the “Lend Me a Tenor” script.
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B: Riverwood’s Chip Carter, left, and Joe Virgin rehearse for the show.
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C: Theater instructor Megan Cramer, center, directs Ellie Kaufman during “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged” rehearsal at The Galloway School on Sept. 8.
the second part of the audition.” Somehow, Bryan saw potential behind the panic and cast Williams in non-speaking roles in that musical and others. She’s also worked props. “I just fell in love with the singing, dancing and the whole backstage thing of being in musicals,” Williams said. “There are costume changes, props that need to be distributed, managers keeping you on task. It’s like magic. I don’t know how it happens.” Williams has landed her first speaking role in the play “A Piece of My Heart,” the production to be staged at Pace this fall, and said theater has helped her manage stress. “Anyone can do theater and everyone should,” she said. “It has made me a happier person because it’s kind of an alternative way to express how I feel. It’s really like, for
Raina Williams, Pace Academy “I do theater because I simply can’t stop doing theater. When I decided to become involved in theater last year, I pictured us running around the stage as wild animals or meditating to get into to character. But theater is not that abstract concept I had in my mind; it’s about portraying human emotions in the most realistic way possible. Once I realized the simplicity of it, theater became the avenue for my emotions. Having that release has made me a happier person and that — and the fact that it’s fun — is why I do theater.
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C me, uplifting.” Bryan said theater also forces students to develop empathy as they step into another character’s perspective. Jon Tyler Owens, who teaches theater at North Springs Charter High School, reflected on the intimacy of live theater. “When you’re in a room with a good actor of a good company of actors, it can be a transcending
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through 8th grade
Lawrence Nieves, The Galloway School
• Extended-day program available
“I’ve never seen a group of kids so singlehandedly devoted to helping create a show. From costuming, to stagecraft, lighting, directing, choreography and more, students all want to help, and Galloway provides the ability to try whatever we want.”
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Sarah Packman, Lovett School “By the end of a production, you are like a family with the other performers and you get to share that with the audience.”
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