Write criticism of school theater

What you need:

• 1 block
• 1 ballpoint pen

It will soon be time for you to be a critic of the school theater and write the criticism of the school theater. But don't worry, criticism doesn't always have to be presented in a completely negative way.

First write the review on a piece of scratch paper

• First you should take a pad so that you can write rough bullet points on it. Think carefully about what you liked and what needs to be improved about the performance. Then write everything down neatly for a review.
• Always start with the positive, you don't want to offend anyone. Certainly the school performance wasn’t that bad that not a single positive point could be found in the school theater.
• Examples of positive points could be: The structure of the theater, there is often a lot of work behind it, the costumes of the actors or the hairstyles. Perhaps one or the other actor spoke or sang very well, which would be particularly worth mentioning.
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• Then summarize the points that caught your eye negatively. Avoid personal criticism of individual actors and stay objective and fair in your ratings, even if you may know one or the other actor.


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• Examples of negative criticism can be: uncertainty of the actors during the performance, unwanted slack body tension, for example during performed dances, moderate lighting and sound technology, whereby in a school theater you also have to consider the existing equipment that is used at all To be available.
• If you have only limited options available and have made the best of it with these options, this cannot be rated negatively, on the contrary. It would certainly look different in a professional theater, since inferior technology should not be used at all.
• One can also evaluate the overall impression of the whole performance. Was it boring at times or was it only exciting at times. Everything negative can also be turned into a positive point (is a glass only half full - negative or already half empty - positive).

Stay factual and objective when writing

• Suppose you want to criticize the uncertainty of several performers, then start with what you found particularly positive first.
• Example: "Some of the theater actors, for example the" stage name "(never a personal name) fell very positively in the accuracy of his Movements, only in the linguistic representation a few sneaked during the performance of some theater actors Uncertainties. "
• Using this "detour" you have so cleverly written a criticism of the actors' uncertainty. Most of the time, a school theater review is also written in a school newspaper, and if you have to write such a review, it can be a very thankless job.
• Always consider the ages of the actors in a school theater when writing a review. Smaller children in particular often achieve enormous things when reciting the texts by heart in such a performance.
• It is important that you remain fair and objective, which is not always that easy. After all, even the most professional critic is only human.