About
MSA Drama Club will provide students with practical opportunities to develop communication, creativity, leadership, teamwork, public speaking, digital production, and interpersonal skills. They will also contribute to a vibrant campus culture and enhance the University’s visibility through student-led creative productions and digital media content.
Vision
To establish a dynamic creative platform that empowers students to express themselves, develop confidence, and explore the performing arts while fostering creativity, collaboration, and cultural engagement.
Mission
The Drama Club aims to provide students with opportunities to explore acting, theatre production, performance, scriptwriting, public speaking, and other performing arts through practical training, workshops, productions, and cultural activities.
Aims and Objectives
- Develop students’ confidence, communication, and public-speaking skills.
- Encourage creativity, self-expression, and artistic exploration.
- Develop teamwork, leadership, and project-management skills.
- Introduce students to different aspects of theatre production, including acting, directing, writing, stage management, lighting, sound, costumes, and production.
- Provide opportunities for students to participate in live performances.
- Promote appreciation of theatre, literature, culture, and the performing arts.
- Connect students with theatre professionals and creative-industry practitioners.
- Create opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration across University faculties.
Proposed Activities
Semester 1:
- Theatre & Acting Orientation
- Introduction to theatre and performance.
- Auditions and recruitment of members.
- Introduction to acting, improvisation, voice, and movement.
- Acting & Improvisation Workshops
- Acting fundamentals.
- Improvisation exercises.
- Character development.
- Body language and stage presence.
- Voice, Diction & Public Speaking Workshop
- Voice projection.
- Pronunciation and diction.
- Effective delivery.
- Overcoming stage anxiety. (Stage fright)
- Scriptwriting Workshop
- Developing ideas and characters.
- Dialogue writing.
- Short-scene development.
- Student-written scripts.
- Theatre Professionals Series
Guest sessions with:
- Actors
- Directors
- Screenwriters
- Theatre producers
- Performing arts professionals
Semester 2:
- University Theatre Production
Students will work together to produce a full theatre performance or a collection of short plays.
Roles may include:
- Actors
- Directors
- Scriptwriters
- Stage managers
- Production assistants
- Set designers
- Costume and makeup teams
- Lighting and sound teams
- Marketing and publicity teams
- Student Monologue & Performance Competition
Students will perform monologues or short dramatic scenes before a panel of academics and industry professionals.
- Theatre & Cultural Visit
A visit to a theatre, cultural institution, production studio, or performing arts organization.
- Annual Theatre Showcase
- A major end-of-year event showcasing student performances and creative work.
- Expected Annual Outcomes
By the end of the academic year, the Drama Club is expected to achieve:
- A sustainable student theatre community.
- At least one major theatre production.
- Multiple workshops in acting, improvisation, voice, and scriptwriting.
- Development of students’ public-speaking and presentation skills.
- Increased student confidence and participation in university activities.
- Student exposure to professional practitioners in the performing arts.
- A portfolio of student performances and creative productions.
- Opportunities for students to demonstrate leadership and production-management skills.
- Greater cultural and creative engagement across campus.
