2018 PROGRAM

SCRIPTS IN DEVELOPMENT

RISE/FALL by Sheila Bandyopadhyay

Jay Dunn, Movement Director
Nathan Siler, Composer
Set in the not too distant future on an environmentally ravaged Earth, RISE/FALL is an experimental theater piece that reinvents the ancient myth of Leda and the Swan. Participants in the Play Lab will work with collaborating artists on scene study, physical character work, movement improvisation and ensemble play. Participants will also work with the composer as musical options are explored.

A Little Understanding Will Do

By Griselda Gambaro
Translated by Cláudio Medeiros and Maria Alessandra Woolson

 A Note from Claudio: Maria Alessandra and I have been working for the last two years on a translation of three plays by Argentinian playwright Griselda Gambaro, who is arguably the country’s most important female playwright of the twentieth century.  MIDDSummer Play Lab will give us the opportunity to hear a group of actors (professionals and students) read one of the plays, Es necesario entender un poco, read in English for the first time.  In addition to all the questions that actors bring to the table, beyond the doors they open to the human complexity of characters and relationships, we are eager to hear them handle the play’s language.  Gambaro writes in a non-naturalistic style: poetic, elevated, polysemic and economical. We have worked hard to do justice to her linguistic sensibility and therefore cannot wait to hear how the actors respond to the solutions we have found.

Deceased Ones

by Emily Kron
A dark comedy pilot about two meandering twenty-somethings who get involved in the peculiar niche service of role playing the dead. Deceased Ones is about identity and human connection, taking a microscopic look at our perceptions of life, death and self.

MASTER CLASSES

Look at me, I’m so funny!: A Clown Workshop with Julia Proctor

Using your voice can be one of the most vulnerable, and powerful, tools of expression. In this clown workshop, we’ll put voice to all the feelings- the scared, bold, angry, joyful – you name it! – and by doing so start to build your own unique relationship to the comic world.

Tuesday, September 4th | 11am-1pm MCFA 232

Acting the Song w/ Emily Kron

A master class centered on storytelling through lyrics and utilizing one’s instrument to physically and emotionally communicate a specific point of view. In an industry that is broadening to include more than the typical musical theater profile, this class will be for singers and non-singers alike.