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Grade 9 · High School

Tech Theatre 1,2

Technical Theatre 1,2: students learn the foundational skills of technical theatre: shop and tool safety, stage architecture and soft goods, costume construction, scenic construction and drafting, scenic painting, props, and lighting and sound fundamentals. Working from scale drawings, students build and paint scenic units, construct a wearable garment from a pattern, document and pull props from stock, and hang, focus, and cable basic lighting and sound systems. This is an introductory course for the Production and Managerial Arts (113) career pathway of the Arts, Media, and Entertainment industry sector.

Costume Project

Unit project

Duration · 4 weeks

Flat muslin to finished garment in four weeks. The costume unit takes Technical Theatre 1/2 students from a flat pattern to a garment that fits a body and survives wear. Each student developed a character against a shared theme, worked it through research, sketch and color rendering, then moved to the shop floor: reading pattern markings, laying out and cutting on grain, threading machine and bobbin, and sewing straight seams with backstitching. Every piece is muslin, the unbleached cotton a costume shop mocks up in. In one color, the design has to be carried by silhouette and construction. The finished work includes paneled corsets laced through hand-set eyelets, installed zippers, elastic waistband casings, tiered and circle skirts, applied trim and hand embroidery. Several students drafted their own patterns from their measurements.