Drama 9 and Drama 10 promotes and strengthens participation and personal development skills at their various levels of maturity. Through exercises and a final performance, students will become familiar with primary aspects of staging and performance development as it applies in the theatre and also in life skill areas such as the job interview. Students will participate in reader’s theatre, improvisation, and theatre skill exercises in conflict, relationships and characterization. This course also provides instruction in acting, movement, staging, and character analysis based on students’ experiences. Emphasis will be on a major performance and the acquisition of specific theatre skills.