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Senior Company 2014 presents AMERICAMISFIT

The Senior Company 2014 presents AMERICAMISFIT by Dan Dietz in the LPAC Frear Ensemble Theatre.

Thursday, December 5th, 2013 10pm
Friday, December 6th, 2013 7pm
Friday, December 6th, 2013 10pm
Saturday, December 7th, 2013 7pm

It’s the B-side of the American Revolution, the song playing on the other side of the record, while you thought you were listening to what’s on top.

America’s first serial killers, the Harpe Brothers, are fighting a private war in the woods of Tennessee against the doomed democracy of the tyrant George Washington. As Big and Little Harpe, with their murderous and beautiful companions, the Roberts twins, cut a bloody swath across Satan’s hometown of Knoxville, a preacher’s daughter is ready for a little bit more… excitement in her life.

But the record of history is scratched and jumping around and it’s all playing at once, and it’s only held together by the sweet crooning of your host, your MC, a man known only as The Rockabilly Boy, who bears a not-coincidental resemblance to a certain King of rock and roll…

Fast-paced, bloody, scored by a live rockabilly band, Americamisfit is the side of the country you only see out of the corner of your eye. Blink, and it’s gone.

The Senior Company 2014 includes Madeline Charne, Tyler Elliot, Katie Goldman, Allison Hrabar, Mark Levine-Weinberg, Theo Noomah, Anna Russell, Swift Shuker-Haines, and Morgan Williams. With Set Design by Marta Roncada, Costume Design by Tara Webb and Sound Design by Scott Burgess. Music Direction by Ben Diamond and Choreography by Ashley Banks.

OUT AND ABOUT: Murmuration presents Jessie Bear ’09’s MAKESHIFT

If you are out and about in Philly….
Murmuration Theater Company presents MAKESHIFT By Jessie Bear ’09

Murmuration Theater was founded in June of 2013 by a collection of people who identity as actors, playwrights, dramaturgs, designers, and artists. The members of Murmuration Theater began working together in 2010 at Swarthmore College and collaborated on four shows prior to coming together to form Murmuration Theater.

Murmuration Theater Company will premiere their first ever work, Makeshift, upstairs in Plays and Players. A thoughtful and heartfelt new play exploring loss, imagination, and the enduring detritus of our lives, Makeshift is the product of three years of workshops, revisions, and conversation. As directed by M. Craig Getting, Makeshift explores themes of love, loss, connection, and disconnection through both naturalism and magical realism. Makeshift will run for a limited engagement from November 6 – 10.

Featuring Swarthmore College alumni (Nell Bang-Jensen ’11 & Isa St. Clair ’11) and faculty designer, Laila Swanson, this promises to be a great show!

Tickets are available now at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/449687
Preview Tickets are $10
All other performances: $15 general admission, $10 Industry/Student/Under 25

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM in November!

The Department of Theater and the Fall 2013 Production Ensemble present a mid-November wander through the woods with this beautiful, wintery version of William Shakespeare’s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM. AMND Poster

In one night in the magical Athenian forest, lovers, fairies, and theater kids meet, love, dance, and dream together. Join us to watch their revels. Cozy up in a tent with friends, blankets, and twinkling lights, and watch the story unfold under the moon and stars. Directed by K. Elizabeth Stevens with Set Design by Matt Saunders, Costume Design by Laila Swanson, Lighting Design by James Murphy and Sound Design by Scott Burgess.

Where and When:
November 14th and 15th at 8PM
November 16th at 4:30PM and Midnight

Please wear comfortable shoes and appropriate attire for indoor/outdoor experience. The audience will gather at the gate to Crum Meadow and walk down into the woods along sparkling paths of moonlight.

A map is available here: http://www.strikingly.com/amidsummernightsdream

In case of rain, the performances will be held in the Lang Performing Arts Center, Swarthmore College Pearson-Hall Theatre. Please check our Facebook page or website for updates about inclement weather.

Free and open to the public without reservation. More info at: 610.690.6889 or lpacevents@swarthmore.edu.

AUDITIONS! Honors Directing Thesis

Audition for Marta Roncada’s Honors Directing Thesis for Spring 2014. Equivocation Audition Poster

When: Saturday, October 26th, 2013 1PM-6PM

Where: Frear Ensemble Theatre

What: EQUIVOCATION by Bill Cain

6 parts, 40 characters.

The Theater Dept. presents a LAMDA class with Rodney Cottier (10/26 @1PM, LPAC Frear)

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LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art)
invites you to attend a
Shakespeare’s First Folio Master Class
Presented by Rodney Cottier

Rodney Cottier is Head of the Drama School division at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) – the UK’s oldest drama conservatory. Rodney has thirty-two years experience as a stage director and teacher of stage combat, acting and text at LAMDA, were he has directed twenty-five plays from Shakespeare’s canon. He has also taught in the US as a guest lecturer at the University of Connecticut and Citrus College, Los Angeles, as well as conducting an annual workshop tour of top North American universities (to date he has visited twenty-seven states), focusing on Shakespeare’s First Folio. As a fight director, Rodney has worked at Shakespeare’s Globe as Master-of-Fight, choreographing several productions including Mark Rylance’s Hamlet, as well as at the Royal Opera House, English and Welsh National Opera, the National Theatre Studio and many regional theatres. Rodney is an alumnus of LAMDA’S flagship Three Year Professional Acting Course.

Take part in this unique interactive workshop and change your view of the play script forever.

Please bring a copy of Shakespeare’s complete works, any edition.

For more information about LAMDA, please visit www.lamda.org.uk or follow us on Twitter @LAMDAdrama.

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Out and About: Pallabi Chakravorty lecture at Emory University (10/17 @7PM)

If you’re in the Atlanta area, join Pallabi Chakravorty at Emory University on Thursday, October 17th at 7PM for a guest lecture/performance “Beyond the Body: Emotions in Kathak Dance” (Sponsored by the Department of Religion and the Department of Middle East and South Asian Studies, Emory University).

This presentation will use live performance and scholarly explorations to identify the ‘Kathak dancer’ as the seeker of love, pleasure, and devotion, both on the physical and the metaphysical realms. It will use musical genres such as thumri and tala stuctures (metrical scales from the north Indian tradition) to elucidate the idea of the dancer as seeker.

Out and About: Pallabi Chakravorty lecture at Emory University (10/17 @7PM)

WOTW: Cardell Dance Theater (October 6, 2013 @ 4PM, Boyer Studio)

The Swarthmore Project and the Department of Music and Dance presents

SUPPER, people on the move

(work in progress)

Supper is a site specific performance that poses semantic questions on the experience of displacement and migration in the current social and financial climate.

Supper consists of layers of images and actions inspired in real stories of a group of recent migrants that the dancers and I interviewed during the research process. Papers, pictures, small personal items, table sets were collected and selected throughout the rehearsal period that are part of the narrative of shared stories creating the performance.

Director/Choreographer: Silvana Cardell

Visual Artist: Jennifer Baker

Prologue: Allan Irving and Pablo Meninato

Performers: Bethany Formica, Leanne Grieger, William Robinson, Adrian Pascencia, Maria Urrutia

Company Intern: Jazmine Brooks