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The Children's Theatre Workshop |
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CTW offers a number of special programs in live theater for Toledo and area youth from 5 to 18 years old. The program teaches theatrical techniques through an informal, classroom-based structure, and promotes self-expression and teamwork. Classes are structured based on the age of the child, rather than experience level or ability. This allows more experienced members to help the new folks, while the new members offer fresh ideas and diverse points of view. This also allows older students to more deeply explore a subject that might bore a younger child. In the classroom we play theatre games, work on improvisational skills, study characterization, and explore our "self". In the process we build esteem, self-confidence, public speaking skills, and an awareness of a true teamwork effort - all "life skills" necessary in that mythical "real-world" we so often hear about. The level of the games and applications is a function of the age of the class. We do not try to make professional performers out of the members - rather we give them a taste of live theatre (as much as they want) so they can decide for themselves if and to what extent they might want to pursue the theatre either as a career or as a hobby.
The Children's Theatre Workshop programs are divided into two basic sections; The Main Company and The Teen Company. Associated with both of these basic divisions we have full theatrical productions as part of the program experience. We also have a musical theatre program, specialty classes in theatre applications such as auditioning techniques and technical theater and a summer camp program. |
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