PORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE THEATRE ARTS PROGRAM ...

2. Community and Environmental Responsibility: Through the plays
we produce at PCC Theatre, we hope to create a cultural and political
perspective that is both global and local. By producing plays that discuss
war, feminism, environmental issues, and other important issues, we work
to help students to have a greater consciousness about these issues.
When approaching our designs, we are continually invested in re-using, reimagining
and recycling existing resources.
3. Critical Thinking and Problem Solving: These faculties are vital to
the process of creating characters in acting, creating theatrical designs,
and to producing theatrical productions. By employing critical thinking and
problem solving skills on a daily basis, our students are expected to take
complex thoughts and concepts and work on them until they are
presentable in a theatrical presentation. Critical thinking skills are
developed through analyzing scripts, disseminating character analyses,
writing plays, designing sets, lights, costumes, props and sound, and
analyzing theatrical performances. Problem solving skills are employed in
building designs, conceptualizing productions, working as a team,
collaborating, acting roles, and mounting productions.
4. Cultural Awareness: By performing plays by a variety of
playwrights of different genders, cultures, races, sexual orientations, and
creeds, we at PCC Theatre Arts hope to give our students perspectives
into the lives of others. We strive to embody various characters by
transforming actors into characters, wearing what they wear, living how
they live, and studying their worlds. We believe this immersion into the
lives of others is one of the greatest ways to raise cultural awareness.
5. Professional Competence: We strive to prepare our students for
the rigors of a 4-year OUS theatrical department or to work in local
theatres. We have met with local theatre professionals, stagehand union
representatives and educational theatre leaders in an attempt to discover
what they expect of our students, and we are working to prepare our