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Everyone in Gilbert Theatre Ensemble starts with Beginning Theatre Arts or Introduction to Technical Theatre regardless of age or past experience. This allows freshmen who choose to be in the theatre program for all four years of high school to have a new and unique experience each year. The curriculum is designed for students with varied levels of past experience. New students will learn all of the basics and more and students with past experience will have lots of opportunities to continue to grow. Most importantly, everyone will get the foundation they need to be successful in Gilbert Theatre Ensemble.

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BENEFITS OF ACTING

Acting for relaxation?

Acting can help you let go of tension. Many of the acting exercises that you will be learn can be enjoyable, and even make you laugh. Other exercises will help you understand why you react in certain ways to certain stimuli. As you discover more about yourself, you can control yourself better and perhaps be more at peace with yourself as well as enjoy yourself in the process.

Acting for control?

It can help you control your emotions. Contrary to what you might have seen on reality television shows, real acting isn’t all about letting all your emotions out, running across the stage naked, or flailing your hands up and down and screaming all your thoughts to the heavens. Real acting is about knowing which emotions to use for which lines, and how to control your facial expressions so that you are conveying the right emotions. In other words, acting is more than an art or a craft: it is discipline, and if you can learn the ropes and discipline yourself through acting, then you might also learn how to control and discipline your emotions in real life.

Acting for focus?

Acting can help you gain focus. In order to act out a specific scene and convey emotions, actors need to be especially focused: they need to stay in character and know the character through and through. This can be an especially difficult task if there are many distractions. The acting techniques that get actors focused can also help you get focused on many aspects of your life, including your job, school, or anything that you are working on or getting paid for.