Theater is a great way to express what you are feeling. Getting you out of your comfort zone and meeting new people is also good. “Just pretend nobody is watching you,” Jess Arellano (11) said. She tells herself this when she is up on stage or to others to help them not feel as scared or nervous. She likes to perform different shows for the community, and indulge herself in different characters. Arellano has been doing theater since elementary school and she plans on continuing into college as well. There is more than just getting up on stage and being in a play, students are able to explore intellectual, social, physical, emotional, and moral domains through learning which involves thought, feeling, and action. Some skills that you learn are communication, public speaking, and commitment, and you also gain confidence. In theater you express the need for social change, communicating a universal theme, recreating and interpreting information, ideas, and emotions. The theater has a lot more to offer when it comes to outside/real-world problems.
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