Boy Scout Merit Badge Requirements
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THEATER
- See or read three full-length plays. These can be from the stage, movies, or television.
Write a review of each. Comment on the story, acting, and staging.
- Write a one-act play. It must take 8 minutes or more to put on. It must have a main
character, conflict, and a climax.
- Do THREE of the following:
- Act a major part in a full-length play; or act a part in three one-act plays.
- Direct a play. Cast, rehearse, and stage it. The play must be at least
10 minutes long.
- Design the setting for a play. Make a model of it.
- Design the costumes for five characters in one play set in a time before 1900.
- Show skill in stage makeup. Make up yourself or a friend as an old man, a clown, an
extraterrestrial, or a monster as directed.
- Help with the building of scenery for one full-length or two one-act plays.
- Design the lighting for a play; or handle the lighting for a play under guidance.
- Pantomime any ONE of the following picked by your counselor.
- You have come into a large room. It is full of pictures, furniture, other things of
interest.
- As you are getting on a bus, your books fall into a puddle. By the time you pick them
up, the bus has driven off.
- You have failed a school test. You are talking with your teacher. He does not buy your
story.
- You are at a camp with a new Scout. You try to help him pass a cooking test. He learns
very slowly.
- You are at a banquet. The meat is good. You don't like the vegetable. The dessert is ice
cream.
- Explain the following: proscenium, central or arena staging, spotlight, floodlight,
flies, highlight, lowlight, scene paint, stage brace, cleat, stage crew, batten, foyer.
- Do two short entertainment features that you could give either alone or with others for
a troop meeting or campfire.
BSA Advancement ID#: 111
Source: Boy Scout Requirements, #33215D, revised 2001
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Last modified on Saturday, January 26, 2002