About
Founded by Ruth Burleigh Call, Unicorn Theatre offers children a safe place to grow, to express themselves, and to develop confidence in their own artisitic and creative abilities. Unicorn holds drama classes for ages 5 - High School Seniors in 8 week sessions. Unicorn Theatre also provides children with a number of performance opportunities through periodic pillow shows, as well as larger Spring and Christmas productions which help to serve as outreach programs to local schools.
Mission Statement
Unicorn Theatre Mission Statement:
A: To provide quality theatre and creative drama training for children.
B: To enable children to gain experience participating in theatre performances to the public.
C: To develop children’s talent and self-esteem.
D: To educate young patrons in audience etiquette and provide opportunities for children to attend LIVE theatricals.
E: To directly engage in and provide opportunities for others to engage in the promotion of arts generally.
WE DO THIS TRIFOLD:
Creative Drama Classes: Where they are taught and develop creative drama and other acting skills.
Pillow Theatre Plays: Compete through audition and work toward production goals as a community of artists developing a production for audiences in a small setting.
Student Matinee Outreach: Students experience a fully backed show (spring production) produced technically in a large space.
What is Creative Drama?
Creative drama is a combination of dramatic play, story enactment, imagination journeys, theatre games, music, and movement. Creative drama is process rather than product driven and so the needs and creative imaginations of the students are heavily tapped into as a resource for course material and/or selection. Creative drama explores emotions, problem solving, interaction, and relationships between environment, animals, and human beings. Creative drama utilizes each student’s imagination and takes into consideration their self confidence and allows each student player to contribute at their own level. There are classroom parameters and within those there are no “wrong” answers, only discovery and growth.
How it is accomplished:
- The Unicorn Theatre develops acting skills through pantomime (focus on the body as the most important communication tool) through use of imagination.
- The Unicorn Theatre develops vocal skills, body language, and the combination of body and voice together to communicate desired ideas and concept.
- Improvisation, the utilization of pantomime skills, and imagination to create stories, ideas and concepts communicated instantaneously.
- Story dramatization: acting out a story with detail in both body and voice.
- Who, What, When, Where and Why development of character, plot, setting, and action.
- Scene work utilizing the 5 W’s of creative drama to communicate a drama world through the development of text and movement.
For More Information
Call: 435-753-6518 ext.10
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