Theater
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| Theater merit badge | ||
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| Status: | Elective | |
| Created: | 1967 | |
| Discontinued: | no | |
| BSA Advancement ID: | ||
| Requirements revision: | 2005 | |
| Latest pamphlet revision: | 2005 | |
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| This is the Boy Scout Theater Merit Badge. Webelos can earn the Showman Activity Badge. |
Merit badge requirements
- 1. See or read three full-length plays or scripts. These can be from the stage, movies, television, or video. Write a review of each. Comment on the story, 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. 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 at least 10 minutes long.
- c. Design the set for a play or a production of a circus. 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, a clown, an extraterrestrial, or a monster as directed.
- f. Help with the building of scenery for one full-length play or two one-act plays.
- g. Design the lighting for a play; or, under guidance, handle the lighting for a play.
- 4. Mime or pantomime any ONE of the following chosen 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 as 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 a 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 tamer doing a routine.
- 5. Explain the following: proscenium arch, central or arena staging, spotlight, floodlight, flies, center stage, stage right, stage left, stage brace, stage crew, cyclorama, portal, sound board.
- 6. Do two short entertainment features that you could present either alone or with others for a troop meeting or campfire.
Source: 2007 Boy Scout Requirements (33215)
Notes
| A FREE workbook for Theater is available here!  with the maps, charts, links, diagrams, and checklists you need! Or click here to print just the Theater requirements. | meritbadge.org has PDF and DOC versions of Boy Scout merit badge workbooks, Webelos workbooks, Cub Scout workbooks, and Nova Award workbooks. |
Per the BSA: You should read the merit badge pamphlet on the subject. Merit badge pamplets are available at your local Scout Shop or online at ScoutStuff.org.
