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Theater at MacDuffie
The goals of the theater department at MacDuffie are to acquaint students with theater history and terminology; to teach and improve performance skills, analytical skills and cooperative skills; and ultimately to help each student develop empathy for others.
"In our productions, we have students from grade 6 to 12...you get to know everybody in the community." - Cameron, '05 |
We offer basic and advanced acting classes in the Upper School and require theater class in seventh and eighth grade for all students. We employ improvisation techniques, self-scripting of scenes and text analysis of pre-scripted works. Acting Ensemble, an advanced course, allows students to perform productions at area schools, and study theater history, acting methods and styles.
We perform two main stage productions a year, usually a musical and a play. Seniors in Acting Ensemble (who have studied for three years) produce one act plays in the spring. Past productions include:
Musicals
The Boyfriend
South Pacific
Anything Goes
Hello Dolly
Pippin
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Pajama Game
Carnival
Fiddler on the Roof
Little Shop of Horrors
Plays
The Crucible
The Mousetrap
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Arsenic and Old Lace
Harvey
The Real Inspector Hound
You Can’t Take It with You
The Miracle Worker
Diary of Ann Frank
Miss Reardon Drinks a Little
Design for Murder