ESTAFEST '04
Friday, April 16, 2004
Workshop #1 … Stage Combat I Friday, 3:30—4:45 pm Workshop #3 … Stage Combat II Saturday, 9:00—10:15 am Leader: Max Beaver Hand-to-hand basics covers virtually all incidental violence normally found in a straight play, plus the foundations of fight choreography for those times when a fight is integral to the plot. falls, slaps, single punch assaults, pushing, tripping, safety and training surround the controlled violence and how to audition, prepare and maintain the fights during the rehearsal and performance process.
Part 1 is for directors, choreographers, stage managers and actors interested in the process of audition, training, and maintenance of a fight with the basic of fighting at the end of the first session. Part 2 is a menu of moves, routines, and techniques and thoughts on stringing them together
Workshop Leader: Max Beaver is a Professor of Theatre at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania.
Friday, April 16, 2004
Workshop #2 … Script Analysis: Telling the Playwright's Scenario Friday, 3:30—4:45 pm Leader: Ward Dales Have you ever found yourself in a production where your character doesn't seem to fit in? You can't quite make all the connections from moment to moment? Or the director seems caught up in a personal pilgrimage rather than committed to the business of illuminating the playwright's vision? How about audience feedback praising individual performances, but hinting that the show missed the mark? Join Ward Dales in a crash course in figuring out who and what the play's supposed to be about. When the entire team is clear on whose story they're telling, how to tell it becomes infinitely easier-and the impact becomes inescapable.
Saturday, April 17, 2004
Workshop #4 …. Technical Saturday 10:30 am—11:45 am Leader: Joe Musumeci
Saturday, April 17, 2004
Workshop #5… ESTA Acting Workshop Saturday 10:30 am—11:45 am This workshop will cover both beginning, intermediate and advanced level topics for community theatre productions in three principal areas: 1) Text Study Preparations; 2) Line Delivery Techniques and 3) optimizing The Rehearsal Process.
Workshop Leader: Spence Watson has performed in over seventy-five non-professional productions in collegiate, community theatres and dinner theatres in NY, CT, PA, DE, OH, and MD. He has also directed over fifty community theatre productions. He is currently Vice President of MCTFA, a board member of the Pennsylvania Association of Community Theatres and a roving adjudicator for the Theatre Association of New York state (his native state). He has won acting and directing awards for competitive festival performances in Pennsylvania and Maryland and was active for many years in Delaware and Ohio community theatres before moving with his wife Beth to their current home near Thurmont, MD and co-founding The Thurmont Thespians. |