Chapter 3: The Impact of Theater on Our Lives
While answers varied between yes and no, the general consensus of people who answered yes had found many ways they improved their literacies within the field of musical theater. Here, we see answers explaining how certain students developed technical skills, while others learned leadership and social abilities, all used to communicate and collaborate with others to create this art form. These genres work in harmony to build the largest literacy at hand in this research - being confident.
Survey with Club Members
As we reach the end of this community guide, I bet you’re wondering, “How does being involved in theater impact our lives?” and “What can be learned or developed through this involvement?”. To directly answer these questions, I surveyed members of Castle High School’s Thespian Troupe 566 - a fancy word for theater club - and asked them a series of questions pertaining to their current or past involvement in the club. Let’s break down a few sections of the survey and discover the overarching literacy at play.
Above, I surveyed participants with two adjacent questions asking to self-assess their development in confidence after participating in theater overall. Again, majority of participants stated that they had felt significant changes in their personal abilities after joining theater, and that this involvement lead them to be more confident in existing outside of their shell.
In one of the concluding questions, 77.8% of participants surveyed that their genres developed through participation in musical theater would contribute to future successes, further instilling that the literacy of being confident in oneself can be obtained through participation of this community.
