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Requirements June 1972 until January 2005

1. See or read three full-length plays. These can be from the stage, movies, or TV. Write a review of each. Comment on the story, acting, and staging.

2. 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.

3. Do THREE of the following:

(a) Act a major part in a full-length play; or act a part in three one-act plays.

(b) Direct a play. Cast, rehearse, and stage it. The play must be 10 or more minutes long.

(c) Design the setting for a play. Make a model of it.

(d) Design the costumes for five characters in one play set in a time before 1900.

(e) Show skill in stage makeup. Make up yourself or a friend as an old man or woman, an Indian, a clown, or a monster as directed.

(f) Help with the building of scenery for one full-length or two one-act plays.

(g) Design the lighting for a play; or handle the lighting for a play under guidance.

4. Pantomime any ONE of the following picked by your counselor.

(a) You have come into a large room. It is full of pictures, furniture, other things of interest.

(b) As you are getting on a bus, your books fall into a puddle. By the time you pick them up, the bus has driven off.

(c) You have failed a school test. You are talking with your teacher. He does not buy your story.

(d) You are at camp with a new Scout. You try to help him pass a cooking test. He learns very slowly.

(e) You are at a banquet. The meat is good. You don't like the vegetable. The dessert is ice cream.

5. Explain the following: proscenium, central or arena staging, spotlight, floodlight, flies, highlight, lowlight, scene paint, stage brace, cleat, stage crew, batten, foyer.

6. Do two short entertainment features that you could give either alone or with others for a troop meeting or campfire.

Requirements January 2005 until Current

1. See or read three full-length plays. Write a review of each. Discuss with your counselor the plot or story. If you choose to watch the plays, comment on the acting and staging.

2. Write a one-act play that will take at least eight minutes to perform. The play must have a main character, conflict, and a climax.

3. Discuss with your counselor the safety percautions that should be practiced when working in a theater to protect the cast and crew. Then do THREE of the following:

(a) Act a major part in a full-length play; or act a part in three one-act plays.

(b) Direct a play. Cast, rehearse, and stage it. The play must be 10 or more minutes long.

(c) Design the set for a play or a theatrical production. Make a model of it.

(d) Design the costumes for five characters in a theatrical production set in a historical time.

(e) Show skill in hair and makeup design. Make up yourself or a friend as a historical figure, a clown, an extraterrestrial, or a monster as directed.

(f) With your counselor’s approval, help with the building and painting of scenery for a theatrical production.

(g) With your counselor’s approval, design the lighting for a play; or help install, focus, color, program, and operate the lighting for a theatrical production.

(h) With your counselor’s approval, help install, focus, equalize, program, and operate the sound for a theatrical production.

(i) Serve as the stage manager for a theatrical production.Document all cues and stage setups in your calling script.

4. Mime or pantomime any ONE of the following picked by your counselor.

(a) You have come into a large room. It is full of pictures, furniture, other things of interest.

(b) As you are getting on a bus, your books fall into a puddle. By the time you pick them up, the bus has driven off.

(c) You have failed a school test. You are talking with your teacher, who does not buy your story.

(d) You are at camp with a new Scout. You try to help him pass a cooking test. He learns very slowly.

(e) You are at a banquet. The meat is good. You don't like the vegetable. The dessert is ice cream.

(f) You are a circus performer such as a juggler, high-wire artist, or lion tanner doing a routine.

5. Explain the following: proscenium arch, central or arena staging, center stage, stage right, stage left, downstage, upstage, stage crew, flies, portal, cyclorama, stage brace, spotlight, floodlight, lighting control board, sound mixing desk.

6. Do two short entertainment features that you could give either alone or with others for a troop meeting or campfire.