Directing with Precision
Explore how directors craft the events that occur onstage between the start and finish of the play. Learn how to prepare the text, the space, the elements of design, and the actors to tell a clear and compelling story. Casting resources as well as professional actor contacts will be available for the directors who request it. Students will leave the class with a clear understanding of the process of preparing and rehearsing a scene from start to finish.
Class starts June 12.
Summer Playwriting Workshop
This program is for playwrights who are interested in an intensive eight-week developmental workshop period, followed by a staged reading of their work in an open workshop setting. This very successful program is an exciting way to take a script to the next stage. The culminating reading series amounts to the presentation of eight new plays in four days. It is an exhilarating experience, but a demanding one.
Class starts Tuesday June 20.
Special Invitation Announcement
Join us for a FREE CLASS
Saturday, June 17, 2017
from 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM at the Bakery
How does a play's structure shape our experience of its story? What is the interplay between theatrical form and content?
This class will examine how a play is crafted to shape our comprehension of the story. An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins uses the same dramatic conventions of Dion Boucicault’s 1859 melodrama, The Octoroon, but it also subverts those conventions to explore race in America in contemporary terms. The play comments on the original melodrama using meta-theatrical moments that are both haunting and comic. Looking at source material and examples in the play, participants will unpack how Jacobs-Jenkins uses adaptation, melodrama, and meta-theatre as storytelling tools.Taught by Literary Manager Sarah Rose Leonard.
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