A few friends and I are interested in starting (or rather, restarting...) our Drama Club at our HS. It would be an after school, student driven thing - we're looking for ideas, suggestions, tips, reccommendations, anything that would help! Thanks for your time!
2006-08-13 13:13:09 · 6 answers · asked by dynamic_disaster 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
I was on the executive board of my drama club in HS so I'll try to give you a few tips.
- Have meetings after school, but also offer some at lunch for people who don't always want to stay after school.
- Entice people to the meetings with free candy, pizza, door prizes, etc.
- Choose a really responsible teacher advisor for your club who is enthusiastic about theatre.
- Have a 3-6 member executive board...people who will organize and speak at the meetings, and who will plan events for the drama club...you could have elections for this or just appoint people yourselves.
- Try to get people who don't take theatre classes to join the club, make it friendly to the whole school!
- Play games at the meetings and give members an opportunity to get to know each other- you might want to get a book on theatre games if you don't already know some.
- Plan some fundraisers so that your club can have a treasury.
- Take a lot of pictures at club meetings and events, and at the end of the year put them together to make a little creative album type thing, and have copies of it made and binded at kinkos and then charge a small fee for the members to buy it as a keepsake.
- Give awards out each month, like, technician or actor of the month.
- Put up big colorful posters around campus to remind kids when the meetings are.
- Have t-shirts or sweatshirts made that you can sell to the club that list the same of the club and the schoolyear on it to promote club unity.
- Have fun with it, and try to come up with creative activities and ideas to keep the group interested.
- Once you get really solid and organized, you could try to put up a play sponsored specifically by the drama club, or a night of one acts, or some sort of performance night(s) that you can only audition for or work behind the scenes for if you are a member of the club!
Good Luck.
2006-08-14 07:27:42 · answer #1 · answered by neverneverland 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would suggest starting with a show/fundraiser. You could put up an "evening of scenes." Club members perform one scene from a play of their choice. You could have as many as you like, but if you assume it's 10 - 15 minutes per scene, and you want your show to be a little less than two hours, you should have 8 to 10 scenes, with a 15 minute intermission in the middle.
It's so easy to do, because you don't need any sets. Just a black curtain backdrop. Actors can supply their own costumes and props - it doesn't have to be fancy at all. You can make some nice little programs for the audience, which introduce the drama club and state your mission. Then you list the scenes being performed in order, noting the play's title and author, the names of the performers, and a brief description of the plot so people know what's going on.
You charge a few bucks, no more than $5, per person. Get all your friends and family to come. If you have 20 performers, you figure they each invite at least 2 people - that's 40 people right there, so you make at least $200. Oh, you could also sell refreshments during intermission. You also introduce your school to the new drama club and you show everybody a little of what you can do.
You can then spend whatever money you made on your first real production.
2006-08-13 13:25:06 · answer #2 · answered by dark_phoenix 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OK nice idea. At my HS things didn't work out that sugar with sprinkles on the top as we thought .
Advice No.1:
If you have someone in the Drama Club that's a member of the student council in your HS it's super if not try to make the president your friend!
No.2
You on your selves you won't succeed try to find yourselves a smart, funny, and most importantly a young teacher (English, drama, litera, etc.)
No.3
When you do your plays make sure that everybody when it's time for rehearsal they don't go anywhere else.
No.4
Somebody needs to make sure that everybody has understood everything, regarding text, situation, character of the personage comprehension.
No.5
Never and I mean never start meetings or rehearsals without getting to know each other try to do confidence exercises, improvisations exercises, since probably you will be performing at theaters and other schools do some exercises to know yourselves better without situations like when someone need's to change they have to go to a room in which to lock their selves and try from a little to make up a lot don't push yourselves to big deeds from the beginning.
No.6
Do not cross the line of balance in theater which is no more than 10 people. In our case the arrival of the tenth meant disaster.
If you nedd something else give me a mail. K?
2006-08-13 23:50:27 · answer #3 · answered by Jean-Michel de G. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try to develop groups within the drama club, such as choreographers, singers, actors, costume people, and lighting and tech people. Try to do some popular shows such as High School Musical, Hairspray, Guys and Dolls, Grease, Wicked, etc. Make flyers and announce it over the loudspeaker. Have a meeting with lots of information.
2006-08-13 13:25:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you interested in putting on a full royalty production or are you more interested in doing things like improvisation? Some high schools have improv teams that compete with other high schools. Are you more interested in musicals or non-musicals?
2006-08-13 14:29:05 · answer #5 · answered by art_tchr_phx 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That sounds like alot of fun!!! Put up lots of posters, and talk to your ASB about making it a full time after school program!
2006-08-13 15:05:48 · answer #6 · answered by HappyDaze07 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋