Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Project # 5 After SHSU

THE PROFESSION


Non-union:
Age Range:Young Adult (ages 18-29)
BERKSHIRE FRINGE FEST, MA
Seeking—Four Performance Interns: male and female, will participate in at least one and up to three professional staged/concert readings of new plays in the EarlyStages program, will mentor with one of the artistic directors, and will participate in the Community Workshop Series lead by artists participating in The Berkshire Fringe.


CHAMBER THEATRE PROD. TOURS

Chamber Theatre Productions, Inc. of Boston is casting four national fall tours, including dramatic adaptations of 19th-century literature (Poe, Twain, Irving, etc.). Seeking—Actors


Union:

SUMMER PLAY FESTIVAL GROUP 2

Arielle Tepper Madover (prod.) is casting Group Two of the Summer Play Festival. Group Two productions include: The Sacrifices (Alena Smith, writer; Sam Gold, dir.; Erica Jensen, casting dir.) and Whore (Rick Viede, writer; Steven Brackett, dir.; Paul Davis, casting dir.)
Age Range:Young Adult (ages 18-29),

NJ, 'ROMEO & JULIET'

Actors Shakespeare Company at NJCU (Jersey City, NJ) is casting Romeo and Juliet. Colette Rice, prod. artistic dir.-stage dir. Rehearsals begin Oct. 18; runs Nov. 4-22.  Prepare a brief Shakespeare verse monologue. Bring pix & résumés, stapled together.
Age Range:Young Adult (ages 18-29)


GRADUATE SCHOOL

University of Texas, Austin
DEGREE PROGRAMS: MFA in Directing, Acting, Playwriting
THE PROGRAM: Preparation for entry into educational, regional, and professional theatre.

FSU / Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training
DEGREE PROGRAMS: MFA in Acting with graduates eligible for Equity membership anytime within five years after completing program.
THE PROGRAM: Three-year Conservatory training in acting, voice and movement. During the second year, students play major roles in the Asolo Conservatory Theatre Company. The summer of the second year is spent studying acting, voice and movement at the FSU/London Study Center. The third year, students become associate members of the Asolo Theatre, acting with the professional company.

University of Nevada, Las Vegas / Nevada Conservatory Theatre


DEGREE PROGRAMS: MFA Professional Training Programs in Performance
THE PROGRAM: Performance and production intensive professional training program, emphasizing a balance between studio training and acting, design or production assignments with the Nevada Conservatory Theatre season-Las Vegas’ premiere regional theatre.


TEACHING

1. A Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited institution of higher education
2. Grade Point Average of 2.5 or higher: 

  • 2.50 overall GPA (undergraduate degree), or

  • 2.50 GPA in the last 60 hours of coursework prior to graduation (undergraduate degree), coursework completed towards a Master’s Degree or post-baccalaureate can serve to boost your GPA. The degree must be from an accredited institution of higher education.

          Click here for information regarding GPA exemption

3. Demonstrate proficiency in reading, writing and mathematics:

Conferred Bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited institution of higher education

4.Content area qualifications:

5. Successful review of written and oral communications with WCACP staff (may include, but not limited to listening, speaking clearly and articulating concepts).

Enrollment in WCACP will prepare you for today’s classroom by:

  • Learning to capture children’s interests in a collaborative, learner-centered classroom.
     
  • Enjoying classes designed to model strategies and techniques that will motivate your students.
     
  • Benefiting from online classes that have a human touch, accessible anywhere anytime.

WCACP was designed to meet the challenges of a digital society by preparing new teachers to effectively integrate technology into their content-specific, TEKS-based classroom.

Theater Instructor

Institution:Hibbing Community College
Location:Hibbing, MN
Category:
  • Faculty - Fine and Applied Arts - Theatre and Dance
Posted:05/01/2009
Application Due:05/26/2009
Type:Full Time
HIBBING COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Seeks Applications for Theater Instructor
Full-time Unlimited
Start Date: August 19, 2009

Responsibilities: Direct the theater production and teach theater courses at Hibbing Community College. Faculty members will also engage in such activities as course evaluation, classroom preparation, the evaluation of student performance, committee assignments, classroom research and community service as part of overall work assignments. Successful candidate may also be assigned to teach courses in interpersonal communications.


Performing Arts Director


Institution:Florida Memorial University
Location:Miami Gardens, FL
Category:
  • Faculty - Fine and Applied Arts - Theatre and Dance
Posted:05/12/2009
Application Due:Open Until Filled
Type:Full Time
The University seeks a dynamic leader to spearhead its thrust in the performing arts, for its newly constructed state-of-the-art performing arts facility. Candidates must have an academic background in the performing arts with preference given to those with the M.F.A. degree. A minimum of five years experience in the management of a performing arts center, program, or organization is required. 

The ideal candidate will be a person of artistic vision with a record of professional accomplishment, demonstrated experience in strategic planning, fundraising, budgeting, marketing, programming, community networking, and development of relationships in the performing arts community. 

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Friday, March 20, 2009

Project #4 Unconventional Theatre

1.PANGAEAN DREAMS: A Shamanic Journey


The Lincoln Center Serious Fun Festival
7/25/91 Rachel Rosenthal




Ms. Rosenthal performing her shamanic journey.



Rachel Rosenthal does a lot of these "unconventional" performances. She is the only one on stage, and there isn't as much as a narrative as there is a 64 year old bald woman playing around in dirt and preaching about how humans should be treating nature.


2.The Bacchae

Screaming Weenie Productions
January 18-29, 2005
Directed by Ilena Lee Cramer
Poster for the "Electronic Opera" in Vancouver



There are a number of peculiar and unconventional happenings in this production. The location in the words of critic Leanne Campbell, "The Weenies have created a theatre space in a most unlikely spot: a large room above a bakery on East 1st Avenue, near Main, in that funny little industrial area north of the car repair shops." A local DJ by the name of Tracey D serves as conductor for the piece. There is live "beat-dropping" on stage and some passages one might traditionally sing are now rapped. This Canadian Electronic Opera is clearly unconventional.

3.Ape

The Walker Art Center
March 18-29, 2009
Gary Stevens


British performer Gary Stevens (center) performs in Ape 
along with Julian Maynard Smith (left) and Wendy Houstoun.


Gary Stevens has gone from singing the Teletubbies theme song, and helping with movement on the children's shows to confusing audiences all over Britain- and now the US. Gary Stevens says about his show, ""It's rather like some sort of alien who has seen a theater show once and decided to so on and got it wrong." The entirety is a jumbled sub-human affair with no formal script and constantly shifting roles depending on the deliveries of certain lines which the performers "repeat, respond and adapt what the others are saying." Sounds fun.

4. England

World Performance Project (WPP) at Yale
October 28-30, 2008
Tim Crouch


A publicity image for “England,” Tim Crouch’s two-act play
touching on the themes of art, wealth and the value of human life.


Premiering at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, one can only expect unusual happenings in this show. It is set in an art gallery, so of course- the audience travels through one! The play is autobiographical in nature, so appropriately the playwright plays one of the two docents leading the audience and commenting on the artwork. The second act takes the audience into the theatre of the gallery where the rest of the heart transplant art murder mystery continues.


5. an oak tree

Presented by Perry Street Theatre Co.,
Rosalie Beer, A.J. Epstein and 
Richard Jordan Productions
 in association with Barrow Street Theatre

November 4th, 2006- February 2007
Tim Crouch


writer turns person into character!

 Tim Crouch again already- he must be quite the unconventional guy. Now this show just sounds amazing- Tim stars and plays everynight with another actor on stage. That other actor changes every night. The other actor has never read the script before. It's genius. He's had quite a few noteable guests on his stage including Mike Myers, Frances McDormand, and F Murray Abraham.




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Sunday, March 8, 2009

Too Hot To Handle


1. New York City Today- Broadway
    
What-  Jane Fonda in  "33 Variations" 

Where- Eugene O'Neill Theatre

When-  3/9/09-  5/24/09

Who-   Moises Kaufman


Vietnam war veterans protest outside of the Eugene O'Neill Theatre against Jane Fonda for her views on the Vietnam War.

Although this protest is not about the work itself, it still represents a controversy involving protest. The woman performing is causing the uproar, and that's not too different from a director staging a show in a way that would upset people- even if the staging wasn't in the script at all.

2. Naked Broadway
What- Tryst
Where- Promenade Theatre
When-  4/6/06 - 6/11/06
Who-   Amelia Campbell 

Amelia Campbell & Maxwell Caulfield 
(Photo: Jean Marie Guyaux)

What is not too hot to handle about nudity? It is not expected, and it appears. Tryst was the first show I ever saw with full frontal nudity. The nudity itself sparks interest in the play, and it may have even turned people off from seeing it.

3. Gay Broadway
What- Take Me Out
Where- Walter Kerr Theatre 
When- 2/27/03- 1/4/2004
Who- Daniel Sunjata & Denis O'Hare

Post infamous shower-scene in a production of Take Me Out

As much as this selection could double with its nudity factor, or triple with its racial factors, at its heart, this ball of controversy is mostly a gay show. The study of how a locker room changes when one man comes out as a homosexual is enough to make it "Too Hot To Handle".

4. Racist Broadway

What: Miss Saigon
Where: Broadway Theatre
When: (4/11/1991 - 1/28/2001)
Who: Johnathan Pryce

Apparently not "Asian-enough" for Protesters.

This one actually involved quite a bit of protest. Many Asian-Americans were upset at the decision to cast a white man in a prominent Asian-French role. Already having a hard enough time getting on stage because of their race, Jonathan Pryce really fired them up. Such signs were held that read, "''What next? Pryce as M.L. King?''

5. Raided or Closed

What: The Folly Theatre
Where: Kansas City, Missouri
When: 1940's
Who: Rose La Rose and many other Burlesque dancers



Mitzi, your typical Burlesque queen.

The Folly Theatre in the 1940's, like many Burlesque houses at the time, had a red light in the footlights to let the scantily-clad vixens know if a censor was in the house. This allowed them to tone down their acts ahead of time. Unfortunately, some dancers (Rose la Rose comes to mind) took this light as a dare to be as scandalous as possible. Subsquently, the Folly Theatre was raided on several occasions. 

6.Arrested
What:Henry VI, Part 1
Where: Portland, Oregon Northwest Classical Theatre Company
When: 9/6/03
Who: Thaddeus Carson

"Just before the curtain rose, the actor playing Lord Talbot was standing off to the side in full costume, swinging a sword. A startled off-duty police officer jogging past said, "Hey, man, be careful with that thing. "According to the police man, the actor began cursing loudly and brandishing the sword menacingly. The fleet-footed officer ran to a pay phone and dialled 911. Before you could say "enter stage left," the police arrived to arrest the faux-Elizabethan for menacing."

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/05/1062549019288.html?from=storyrhs


7.NEA 4

What: We Keep Our Victims Ready

Where:Alice Tully Hall

When: 7/22/1990

Who: Karen Finley

Finley's Famous Chocolate

Immediately after the Supreme Court's decision to deny funding for Holly Hughes, Tim Miller, John Fleck, and Karen Finley, the latter rips her conservative critics to shreds in her intense one woman show. Giving all the more attention to Finley, and garnering sympathy, I'm sure the Courts regret their decision.

8. Regional Theatre

What: Equus

Where: Asolo Repertory Theatre

When: 3/28/08- 5/4/08

Who: Juan Cardenas

"It's causing a whole lot of controversy all over the world. Peter Schaffer's stage play, "Equus" debuts Friday night at the Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, and the production team doesn't really understand what all the controversy is about."

http://www.mysuncoast.com/Global/story.asp?S=8080367 

Apparently, Equus is still a big deal. Just shows how ignorant people are. As mentioned, right in the article, as soon as Harry Potter appears nude- NOW everyone is familiar with Peter Shaffer. Because the recent Broadway production was all over the news, it's now fresh in everyone's minds and controversial enough to have an article written about it.

9.College/University

What: Sex Worker's Art Show

Where:VCU

When: February 2007

Who: VCU parents and state politicians


An ad for the show performed in the school's theatre.


It is funny to see the burlesque controversy from the 1940's rearing its ugly head almost 70 years later. It is nothing more than burlesque, and everyone is in a fit, complaining about their money going to such filth. History will always repeat itself, I guess.

10. High School

What: Rent (School Edition)

Where:California, Texas and West Virginia

When: 08-09 School Year

Who:Ron Martin

He said his principal, Fal Asrani, had objected to the show because of its treatment of “prostitution and homosexuality.” “When I heard that, I stopped her and looked her in the eye and said, ‘First, there is no prostitution in ‘Rent,’ and second, homosexuality is not wrong,’ ” Mr. Martin said. “She made no comment. It was the most demoralizing, disappointing moment in my career as a teacher.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/theater/20rent.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1

It makes sense that Rent in any form would worry a high school principal. Society is just not that open yet, and especially with such an immature age group. Still, I can't help but feel for that teacher after reading the quote.



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Friday, February 6, 2009

Project #2 Option #1

CASTING: Kushner wrote his casting the way he did for a reason. He could have easily made every character have his or her own actor. But he didn't. There is meaning in the correlations.

"Director Robert Buseick has assembled a cast of 24 student and community actors for this production."

 "Seven of the eight actors in our ensemble"

ANGEL:  I've got seemingly endless financial resources? Of course that angel is going to fly! I'll strap a jet pack on her and make it look like magic angel dust if I want to. Seriously though, it's a very pivotal moment and deserves as much spectacle as possible.

"So the angel got stuck in the fly rail"

"The only real problems with the show are the visual effects that ANGELS requires. City Lights simply doesn't have the space or the money to pull it off."

NUDITY: If I'm putting up Angels in America, then I know this is not a family affair. It is a brutal, offensive, and true play. I wouldn't have it any other way. If you can't take the human body- the one everybody is born with- then go see something else.

"When I suggested dropping the nudity, we discussed the context of the medical examination in which it occurred and concluded that the rest of the play romanticized AIDS too much. Without a visual encounter with the humility of real physical exposure and ravaging disease, the audience would not "get" the truth."

 "Reverend Joseph R. Chambers publicly denounced the play, threatening to have the cast arrested for "indecent exposure.""

www.wfu.edu/~louieg/AngelsinAmerica.doc


LANGUAGE: Fuck that. No one so dares as touches the script with bowdlerizing thoughts. 
Maybe the character is established with these words. Without them, the audience may get the wrong idea.

"... explicit dialogue still rankled me. It is the one scene in our production that I did not feel I had adequately solved as a director, though I believe the students were right to insist upon it."

"This play is filled with vulgarity, filled with explicit scenes, filled with unsafe sex," Chambers spewed when contacted by the New York Times.

INTERMISSIONS: Two intermissions will work.We don't want the audience getting antsy after all. An intermission between Act II and III works well because Act III is three days later. An intermission after Act I is good because it has the audience leaving on a very powerful line, and the audience coming back to a very powerful moment.

"I stood outside during the intermissions"

"...the one intermission"

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Friday, January 30, 2009

Project #1 Professional: Kansas City Repertory Theatre

Radio Golf
by August Wilson

"The production that opened last night at the Cort Theater, directed by Kenny Leon, has the crackle of a bustling comedy crossed with an old-fashioned melodrama."
"Wilson's...intense drama"

"New production of Tennessee Williams’s heartbreaking 1945 “memory play.”"
"Tennessee Williams’ 1944 drama, his first great success"

Zimmerman plays fast and loose with time and space, sprawling her drama across a stunning landscape of the imagination.
It balances comedy with tragedy and universalizes moral truth through the filter of individual characters. 
It is Charon's first movie and it shows in the pacing that might seem slow in a drama but is positively elephantine in a bedroom farce.
This excellent farce works as a modern comedy.

A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens

"A Christmas Carol plugs us into the drama that captured the world's imagination"
Theaterworks/NYC has dusted off the old Dickens skinflint for its welcome musical version of "A Christmas Carol."

Doubt
by John Patrick Shanley

Above all, Doubt, is an engrossing drama
"A tragedy about secrecy and rigidity destroying the lives of at least four players."
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee

"An emotional courtroom drama about rape"
"The play is not a tragedy, though there are truly tragic elements here. It is not a comedy in the classic sense because a beloved character dies a tragic death."

A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry

"This compassionate human drama still works its magic on our emotions."
 "A Raisin In The Sun, is a tragi-comedy also mainly employing the dramatic techniques of contrast, parody and sarcasm. "
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
"Little women is a coming of age drama tracing the lives of four sisters."
Part comedy of manners, part morality tale, Little Women is more interested in its heroines "conquering themselves" than in a man conquering their hearts.

Pirates of Penzance
by Gilbert and Sullivan
"Gilbert continued his practice of throwing his characters into an utterly ridiculous situation and then treating the drama with great seriousness."
"Gilbert and Sullivan's ever popular comedy"
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Friday, January 23, 2009

Project #1 Academic: University of Missouri at Kansas City

The Heidi Chronicles
by Wendy Wasserstein

"Wasserstein's wise and witty comedy of manners, The Heidi Chronicles."
http://www.busbarn.org/shows/reviews.php?id=34

"This made-for-television drama"

"Political drama and a metaphor for the seeming piety in our present public life."
http://talkingbroadway.org/regional/minn/minn170.html

Cloud Nine
by Caryl Churchill

"''Cloud Nine,'' an imaginative comedy by the British playwright Caryl Churchill."

"CLOUD NINE is...Caryl Churchill's audacious assault on gender, racial discrimination and social oppression."

"Our Town," a classic staple of theatrical literature by Thornton Wilder

"The timeless classic Our Town, a three-act play by Thornton Wilder"

Three Sisters
by Anton Chekhov

"''Three Sisters,'' which is being presented at the Pearl Theater Company, is one of the saddest and most haunting dramas written in this century or any other."

"Chekhov described the play as a comedy."
Wendy MacLeod's dark comedy "The House of Yes."

"The House of Yes is knowingly overripe, a kitsch melodrama"

Noises Off
by Michael Frayn

"Noises Off, the classic farce by the Tony Award--winning author of Copenhagen."

Michael Frayn's hysterical British farce Noises Off.

Dancing at Lughnasa
by Brian Friel

Dancing at Lughnasa could almost be considered an "anti-melodrama."

"Dancing at Lughnasa, Friel's 1990 memory play"

Goodnight Children Everywhere
by Richard Nelson

" It is possible for all the characters in a comedy to be mad."

Richard Nelson’s Olivier Award winning drama Goodnight Children Everywhere at the Geary Theater

The Country Wife
by William Wycherly

"Wycherley's comedy of marriage and infidelity"

"The Country Wife is one of the most frequently read and performed examples of a type of drama known as Restoration comedy..."
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