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Theatre for Vocational Discernment

Theatre plays a significant role in vocational exploration and community-building by encouraging students to take risks and engage deeply with their identities. Through acting classes and other theatre-related experiences, students discover their purpose and develop confidence, fostering essential skills for their future vocations and creating a supportive community environment.

A series on the role of theatre in vocation, with a focus on how it supports community-building, the uncommon good, and vocational exploration and discernment for all our students.

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Lights up on theatre acting classroom, full equally of theatre and non-theatre students. Students stand in a circle.

STUDENT

(To the theatre instructor)

Wait, what are you asking me to do? Make a weird sound?

THEATRE INSTRUCTOR

Yes! Anything you feel inside, just let it out.

STUDENT

Um, okay, sorry, I don’t know if I’m doing this right.

THEATRE INSTRUCTOR

Try not to worry if it’s right, anything that comes out is fine. The goal is to take the risk to be silly and discover it’s okay.

team in a huddle
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STUDENT

(Looks around nervously and blurts out)

BAAAHHHH!!!

(Class erupts in applause and laughter.)

OTHER STUDENTS

(overlapped adlibbing)

Yes, that was great! Loved it! So good! Knew you could do it! Fun!

Lights fade as STUDENT can’t help but smile out of pride.

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