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  • See or read three full-length plays. These can be from the stage, movies, or television. Write a review of each. Comment on the story, acting, and staging.
  • Write a one-act play. It must take 8 minutes or more to put on. It must have a main character, conflict, and a climax.
  • Do THREE of the following:
    1. Act a major part in a full-length play; or act a part in three one-act plays.
    2. Direct a play. Cast, rehearse, and stage it. The play must be 10 or more minutes long.
    3. Design the setting for a play. Make a model of it.
    4. Design the costumes for five characters in one play set in a time before 1900.
    5. Show skill in stage makeup. Make up yourself or a friend as an old man or woman, and Indian, a clown, or a monster as directed.
    6. Help with the building of scenery for one full- length or two one-act plays.
    7. Design the lighting for a play; or handle the lighting for a play under guidance.
  • Pantomime any ONE of the following picked by your counselor.
    1. You have come into a large room. It is full of pictures, furniture, other things of interest.
    2. As you are getting on as bus, your books fall into a puddle. By the time you pick them up, the bus has driven off.
    3. You have failed a school test. You are talking with your teacher. He does not buy your story.
    4. You are at a camp with a new Scout. You try to help him pass a cooking test. He learns very slowly.
    5. You are at a banquet. The meat is good. You don't like the vegetable. The dessert is ice cream.
  • Explain the following: proscenium, central or arena staging, spotlight, floodlight, flies, highlight, lowlight, scene paint, stage brace, cleat, stage crew, batten foyer.
  • Do two short entertainment features that you could give either alone or with others for a troop meeting or campfire.
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