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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.

Sign up for an audition slot on the Frear Theatre doors in the LPAC basement lobby.

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.

http://calendar.swarthmore.edu/calendar/EventList.aspx?view=EventDetails&eventidn=11244&information_id=31928&type=&syndicate=syndicate

 

Auditions! Senior Co. needs your talent!

Senior Company is auditioning you folk for a rock & roll revolution!  We need actors, singers, dancers, and musicians!

Saturday, September 7, 2013

4-7PM

LPAC Frear Ensemble Theater

Sign up for a 15 minute slot on the bulletin board in the Frear Lobby or email sshuker1@swarthmore.edu.

No special preparation necessary.

 

Need a campus job? Studio Art classes are looking for Models!

Prof. Logan Grider is looking for clothed student models to assist with life drawing and studio art classes.  Applications for the job are available in 306 of Beardsley Hall (Art Dept. Office) and in LPAC 004 (Dance Office).

General Info:

  • Models will be needed for studio art classes in the morning (8:30-11:10A) and afternoon (1:15-4P)
  • Most models will be scheduled to work one to two sessions a week and sessions will be scheduled in advance by the professor of the art class
  • Models are paid through Work Study
  • Models will be asked to pose in clothes for 30 minute blocks during scheduled class times.

For further questions and more information, contact Prof. Logan Grider in Beardsley Hall 215 (lgrider1@swarthmore.edu).

MOVEMENT THEATRE WORKSHOP SOIREE: Thursday 5/2

MOVEMENT THEATRE WORKSHOP SOIREE
5pm, Thursday May 2
Tarble in Clothier (upstairs space)

Come see a series of short pieces created by students in this
semester’s Movement Theatre Workshop.  The pieces will include mask
work, a melodrama, tragic chorus pieces and other original works of
physical theatre created by the students during the semester.  Should
last no more than an hour. –Professor Quinn Bauriedel

UNSTUCK, Honors Thesis in Directing (5/3-5/5/2013)

unstuck_poster_2swift UNSTUCK is a new story about memory, creation, and the reality of loss. Inspired by the works of Jorge Luis Borges, Salman Rushdie, David Mazzucchelli, and more, this is a collaboratively crafted tale of magical thinking collapsed into stark magical realism. Shadows dance around an artist and his sister as they push the boundaries of what makes our world physical.

Directed and Conceived by Meryl Sands ’13

and Featuring and Created by
Christina Aruffo ’14, Amelia Dornbush ’15, Sam Swift Shuker-Haines ’14, Joshua McLucas ’15, & Benjamin Books Schwartz ’13.

Stage Managed by Zack Martin ’13
with Set Design by Matt Saunders, Costume Design by Dyan Rizzo-Busack ’15, Lighting Design by Josh Schulman, Sound Design by Elizabeth Atkinson, & Projection/Media Design by Fernando Maldonado ’13

Showings:

May 3 and May 4 @ 9PM
May 4 and 5 @ 2PM

LPAC Frear Ensemble Theatre

 

Lanford Wilson’s BURN THIS (4/19-21) in the Frear!

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Jeannette Leopold’s (’13) Honors Thesis in Directing will feature Lanford Wilson’s Burn This, a shocking and beautiful story of grief and love. As the play opens, Anna (Anita Castillo-Halvorssen ’15) and Larry (Patrick Ross ’15) have just returned from the funeral of their best friend and roommate, Robbie. Anna struggles with her grief and tries to find solace in her passionless relationship with boyfriend Burton (Daniel Cho ’15). When Robbie’s brother Pale (Alexander Rojavin ’15) bursts into Anna and Larry’s apartment in the middle of the night, everything changes. Burn This shows four people fighting to stay afloat through loss, and through death, and leaves you holding a flame of hope.

LPAC Frear Ensemble Theatre

April 19 – 8PM

April 20 – 2PM & 8PM

April 21 – 2PM

BURN THIS is presented by special arrangement with Dramatist’s Play Service, Inc., New York.