- What's your topic?
Theatrical Performance
- What is the driving problem behind your experiment and the quote by an expert to support that problem?
My driving problem is what is it that community theaters do that gives them good or bad AACT (American Association of Community Theatre) scores, and how can you improve your community theater to reach those scores and consider themselves "successful"? Some say it's budgets, some others say experience.
"In an effort to deal with its current financial crisis, St. Paul's Penumbra Theatre - one of the country's highest-profile and most honored African American theaters, is suspending programming and will not produce any plays for the rest of the year.
A decision to cut $800,000 from its $2.7 million budget, along with the elimination of six full-time staff positions, including associate artistic director Dominic Taylor, was announced Thursday, Sept. 6. Most of the cuts are coming from the programming portion of the theatre's budget." (Gustafson, Amy C. "Penumbra Theatre Suspends Programming, Cuts Staff." TwinCities.com. Pioneer Press, 06 Sept. 2012. Web. 08 Nov. 2012. http://www.twincities.com/life/ci_21480558/penumbra-theatre-suspends-programming-cuts-staff.)
- What is your hypothesis?
If community theaters are in the black for production budgets and have been running for at least ten years, then they are more likely to get better AACT scores than those who are not.
- Write a paragraph summary of how you will perform the experiment. Include the tools you plan on using.
I will go to as many theaters in the Los Angeles area that are a part of AACT and ask how long they have been in business and their budget along with their profits from each production. Then research their AACT scores and connect their scores with their budgets and experience. If their budgets and/or experience reflect on their scores and how to improve that score.
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