Theater in the real world: create your own company

Here’s a group undertaking that could be a nice complement to our final weblog put up, Theater in the actual world: profile of the theater firm. Your college students have been launched to varied theater firms, all with distinctive tales, installations, and creative objectives. Now they’ll create their very own theater firms, specifically tailor-made to their distinctive pursuits and personalities. It is time to dream large!

This undertaking could be purely researched and written, or you’ll be able to have college students current their plans to the remainder of the category to provide them an opportunity to follow their talking expertise. In case your college students select to provide a presentation, they might want to create a poster board or PowerPoint slide present.

Directions

1. Divide the category into small teams or companions.

2. Every group will create its personal theater firm by fulfilling the next circumstances:

• What’s your organization referred to as? You should definitely think about any acronyms that could be related to your enterprise identify. For instance, Blue Umbrella Musicals is a enjoyable identify, however you may not be thrilled with the abbreviation clients use.
• Design a brand for your enterprise. Embrace a sketch or digital rendering.
• The place is your enterprise situated? For what?
• What’s your organization’s mission assertion? A mission assertion describes why your enterprise exists. It says what you do and for whom, and it may be as broad or as specialised as you need. For instance, your organization could resolve to solely produce musicals. Or, your organization could resolve to supply solely trendy rock musicals in out of doors areas that includes BIPOC performers and technicians beneath the age of 30. Maybe your organization will solely characteristic new works by rising playwrights. Your small business could exist to offer alternatives and jobs for highschool college students. Maybe your organization will produce exhibits solely written and directed by girls, or solely exhibits about baseball, or solely exhibits performed in mime. It is your enterprise — you resolve!
• Select three exhibits to your opening season. Describe why they’re nice decisions to your theater firm and the way they relate to your mission assertion.
• What sort of venue will your theater firm want? Select three present venues the place your organization may carry out. Embrace the identify of the venue, no less than one photograph of every venue, and the seating capability of the venue. (Don’t be concerned concerning the precise location of the venue; that is for inspiration functions.)

3. Info ought to be introduced in full sentences, listening to spelling and grammar. For ease of studying, college students ought to set up their info beneath applicable headings.

4. If you want, you may also ask college students to incorporate an oral presentation with their written work. Oral shows mustn’t exceed 5 minutes.

5. College students will full and submit particular person reflections (discovered within the giveaway beneath).

Growth Problem: For an added problem, you’ll be able to ask college students to current a summarized in seconds, imagining that you’re a potential investor of their firm. Teams will determine and describe their enterprise strengths, weaknesses, alternatives and threats and persuade you to fund their opening season.

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