Humanities - Center Stage Performance

General Education Capstone Course

Event/Experience Details and Guideline Form

Gen. Ed. Category Event should be listed under: Humanities

SCC Competency addressed by event: Identify the typical criteria that are used for making informed judgments in various fields of the humanities.  Articulate an informed response to popular or classical works in the humanities.

Event experience Title:  Attend a Centerstage performance of a live play 

Anticipated Learning Outcome: This project should assess the student's ability to display an understanding of the play's story, to articulate a personal response to the aspects of the theatre and how effectively they were used (such as actors, set, costumes, lights, props and sound) and to relate the worth of the experience to them and society. How does the play contribute to our culture and history?

Guidelines for accomplishment of event

The student will attend one of Centerstage's plays.

After attending the play the student will write a journal entry of their impressions and interpretations.

The student will discuss the three following areas in their paper:  Understanding, Effectiveness and Ultimate Worth. 

Understanding refers to the story that was told and revealed through the play's action.

Discuss the main events that make up the story and how it is resolved.

Effectiveness refers to how well the story was told. 

Give examples of how the actors handled the characters. 

Give examples as to how the costumes, set, lights, sound, props and makeup assisted in the telling of story. 

Ultimate worth refers to what you took away with you. 

Did you gain a new perspective, an appreciation for performance, a new awareness? 

Did you learn something about people, yourself or the world that you did not know before?  What?  Give specific examples of what you learned from the experience.

Provide at least one the following: 

Event Contact Name: SCC

Event Contact Phone number: Box Office Number 636-922-8050

Event Contact e-mail: SCC Web site Centerstage

Event Contact website URL: http://www.stchas.edu/events/theaterevent.shtml

SCC Event Creator: Pam Cilek

Estimated Time for full completion (include: making contact/appointment; attending activity; travel; and journal consideration and entry) approximately 4 hours