WEEKEND I WORKSHOPS
Intensives: July 5 – 8, 2007
Explorations: July 6 – 8, 2007
- From the Page to the Stage
- A Playwright’s Confession: How to Keep Your Lies Straight
- Lighten Up! Theatrical Lighting Design SOLD OUT
- Acting Masterclass SOLD OUT
WEEKEND II WORKSHOPS
Intensives: July 12 – 15, 2007
- Speakeasy: Stage Dialects
- Behind the Scenes: A Technical Theatre Overview
Explorations: July 13 – 15, 2007
- A Word is a Word is a Word: Experimental Writing for Theatre
- Yes, Let’s! An Introduction to Improv
- Discover Your Clown
- The Business of Directing
WEEKEND I WORKSHOPS
Intensives: July 5 – 8, 2007
Is There a Director in the House?
July 5 – 8, 2007
Thursday 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday 10 AM – 5 PM
Instructor: HEATHER INGLIS
Maybe it’s you! Being the “director” is more than a title — it’s a way of life. This introductory workshop is a comprehensive look at the craft of directing for beginners or those with limited experience. All you need is a positive attitude to explore how to take a play from the page to the stage. Participants will have a chance to explore the language of directing and a variety of rehearsal techniques in a fun and encouraging environment. Learn to transform your vision into action by communicating effectively. Behind every great production, there’s a great director — and it can be you!
| WORKSHOP FEE: | $249 All prices include catered lunches and GST |
| Maximum 16 Participants | |
A Show to Call Your Own
July 5 – 8, 2007
Thursday 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday 10 AM – 5 PM
Instructor: KATHLEEN WEISS
The one-person show is a mainstay of the Canadian theatre landscape. Actors are curious and opinionated creators and storytellers. If you have a solo show rumbling around in the back corner of your brain, this workshop will help move it into the frontal lobe, the body, and then onto the stage. Using improvisation and physicality as a key approach, we will explore a variety of techniques for generating source material, developing repeatable text and imagery, building characters based on obsessions, writing on your feet, and shaping the work for performance. This workshop will offer concrete theatrical tools for creating your own original performance in a fun, creative and challenging environment.
| WORKSHOP FEE: | $249 All prices include catered lunches and GST |
| Maximum 16 Participants | |
Explorations: July 6 – 8, 2007
From the Page to the Stage
July 6 – 8, 2007
Friday 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Saturday and Sunday 10 AM – 5 PM
Instructor: JAMES MacDONALD
Ever wonder what the pros do to take it from the page to the stage? Dying to tread the boards, but have no idea where or how to begin? This class will introduce participants to the basics of acting, including approaching a script, building a character, warm-up techniques, appropriate use of your voice, and making creative choices on stage. Through games, improvisation, and text work, we will touch on all the fundamentals of creating a performance. Join Citadel Theatre Associate Artistic Director James MacDonald in demystifying and inhabiting the world of the actor. No experience required — just a great spirit of adventure (and a good sense of humour)!
| WORKSHOP FEE: | $199 All prices include catered lunches and GST |
| Maximum 16 Participants | |
A Playwright’s Confession: How to Keep Your Lies Straight
This class has been cancelled.
Instructor: MARTY CHAN
Good plays are whoppers of lies that skirt the fine line between near truths and outrageous fiction. The playwright’s job is to make sure their scripts never slip up or get tangled in their own web of deception. In this introductory playwriting workshop, inveterate liar and playwright Marty Chan will help budding playwrights spin stories and learn how to keep their lies straight. Through writing exercises and demonstrations, he’ll reveal the secrets any good liar/playwright should have in their back pocket. Check the truth at the door and be prepared to lie your face off.
| WORKSHOP FEE: | $199 All prices include catered lunches and GST |
| Maximum 14 Participants | |
Lighten Up! Theatrical Lighting Design
Sorry, this class is sold out. Waiting list available.
July 6 – 8, 2007
Friday 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Saturday and Sunday 10 AM – 5 PM
Instructor: BRETTA GERECKE
Last summer at Dramaworks we painted with paint; this year we’re painting with light! This introductory lighting design workshop will explore both the art and science of theatrical lighting. Through demonstrations, examples and hands-on work, we will examine how to use colour, rhythm, shadow, texture, balance, movement and special effects to highlight and complement your production’s set/costumes, actors, and story. Instructor Bretta Gerecke will work through a range of experiences from fringe to touring shows, plays to spectacle musicals, as well as take time to discuss participants’ specific lighting questions and needs. You’ll develop a lighting designer’s vocabulary, learn helpful hints and shortcuts, and discover how to maximize the equipment you have on hand. Don’t be left in the dark!
| WORKSHOP FEE: | *$199 *Additional materials fee may apply All prices include catered lunches and GST |
| Maximum 14 Participants | |
Acting Masterclass
Sorry, this class is sold out. Waiting list available.
July 6 – 8, 2007
Friday 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Saturday and Sunday 10 AM – 5 PM
Instructor: DAVID STORCH
Great actors rely on solid technique — technique that guides them to a place where instinct rules. Celebrated Canadian actor David Storch joins Dramaworks to lead an acting masterclass for serious-minded actors looking to refine skills and good habits and identify and shed bad ones. Using Shakespeare’s plays and poems as material — because no one gives the actor more help than Shakespeare — David will share tricks, tips and techniques that can be as easily applied to any and every text you encounter. The work will address both the more tangible challenges of breath support, phrasing, diction, rhetoric, emphasis, etc., as well as the more imaginative and intuitive challenges of emotional and immediate connection to the text and to the scene partner.
| WORKSHOP FEE: | $199 All prices include catered lunches and GST |
| Maximum 16 Participants | |