Arts
Drama & Speech
Theatre
Middle, high, and sometimes elementary school students may audition to be involved as performers or technical crew members in SCS’s fall and spring productions (musical and non-musical).SCS has presented over 40 successful productions, some of the most recent being the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic The King & I, a compelling stage adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, The Sound of Music, Treasure Island, and Disney’s Newsies and Beauty and the Beast.
Class Opportunities
Middle and high schoolers have many opportunities to become involved in drama and speech.
The High School Drama 1 Fundamentals of Acting and Theatre class focuses on performance, as well as other aspects of the theatrical arts, such as history, terminology, and design. Students perform in class, including duet acting, solo acting, group acting, improvisation, and readers theatre.
The High School Speech and Debate Competitive Forensics class coaches high school students in the art of presentation and critical thinking. Members of this class compete in state and regional tournaments through the National Speech and Debate Association (NSDA).
The High School Musical Theater class helps students gain understanding of the evolution of musical theatre as a distinct performance genre and develops their acting, design, music, and movement skills for the musical theatre performances.
