Here are some quotes that highlight the benefits of theatre
for high school students:
"Theatre teaches team work like few other subjects in schools these days. There is no I in a theatre production."
"Theatre promotes us to give power to others, to take risks and to advocate for new voices."
"Dramatic playing is essential for children's learning empathy and self-control."
"Theatre gives physical, technical, creative, emotional, social and artistic experience to the people involved and also effects the audience. "
"Theatre helps us to develop great social skills, problem-solving and creative thinking."
"Just having the sound of the audience laughing. And after a musical number, that kind of roar of appreciation. You just don't get that anywhere else."
"The most immediate way in which a human being can share with another what it is to be a human."