As part of the build up to our Missoula Children's Theatre (MCT) residency week, the Tehama County Arts Council hosted a Youth Actors Workshop. On Saturday, nearly 30 kids in kindergarten through 6th grade joined us at the Tehama County Department of Education. The workshop leaders were high school students and veterans of MCT's past. They hosted a series of theatre games in an effort to build confidence and teach some audition skills.
The event started off with a game of charades, which started out as just an activity to pass the time, but as the children arrived it became an excellent icebreaker, and an opportunity for the kids to start getting on stage. Then they were split into 3 groups and participated in creativity games, movement exercises, and volume and enunciation. The youth leaders were great, patient, informative and very supportive. They also were very clear about the possibility of not getting cast in the play, and that they should not be discouraged, but to try again the next year.
I am thrilled to be a part of any opportunity to encourage the arts for children, and loved that this was a youth driven project! We will definitely pursue this project again next year--some of the kids there would like to see it happen every weekend!
Missoula auditions for this year's production, The Wiz of the West are Monday, 4/21 at 3:30 at the Vista School gym. Performances are Saturday, 4/26 at 3pm and 7pm.
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