Two English-langauge theater companies will be having season auditions next Saturday, June 12.
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Blood, Love and Rhetoric have produced Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Memorandum, Chekhov and will be doing the Birthday Party June 9-12. They will be having auditions June 12 at Divadlo Inspirace (Malostranske nam 13) from 12-5pm. For more information email info@bloodloverhetoric.com or visit the facebook event:
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Local theatre company AKANDA is holding auditions on the 12th (Saturday) of June for it’s original production of Cabaret Macabre.
The performances will be held weekly and will begin on the 16th of July.
Looking for both male and female performers who can sing and act (or vice versa).
The performances are paid.
For more information, please contact Melanie Rada via mobile (723 085 650) or email (mellrada@yahoo.ca)
Post Category: Acting,Auditions
June 6th, 2010 at 08:34pmbrian
David Peimer, who teaches at NYU and has worked on several Prague Playhouse projects, is directing a play at Divadlo Na zabradli in English. The cast is mostly Czechs with some of the Black Snow company members thrown in for good measure. The play, a translation of a Polish play about Romanians, is called “A Couple of poor Polish speaking Romanians…” and was written by Dorota Maslowska.
Why Divadlo Na zabradli chose to do a translation of a Polish play into English for their first English-language production is something of a mystery to me, but it’s certainly an interesting choice. If it is successful (especially with tourists), I think we can start to see more theaters trying this out, which could be a boon to the English-speaking acting community here. I’m also curious to see how the Czech cast (the majority of the actors are non-native speakers) manages the English. Recent films shot in English (Bathory and Libuse) with Czech or Slovak casts have solidified my impression that acting well in another language is extremely difficult.
I have worked with David as a director and am very confident of his abilities and artistic sensibility, so if anyone can pull this off, he can.
The premier on June 3 is sold out, but there are still some spots left for the reprise on June 15. For tickets, you can call the Zabradli box office: 222 868 868
Post Category: Events,Theatre
May 28th, 2010 at 11:13ambrian
Hi everyone!
I’m Boris Wilke and member of the Prague Playhouse Meisner acting group. I blog about our class activities.
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Let me be short and concise again today!
In the last few weeks there were several incidents in class that led certain members to become slightly wary of the Meisner technique.
Some of the repetition exercises bordered on the insane, vicious or at least very insensitive.
While I am aware that that is mighty scary and leaves one unsatisfied, I must insist that this has very little to do with the technique. In fact, Brian rightly pointed out to me that the Meisner technique provides you with all the tools you need.
One example: I felt attacked and cornered once. My reaction was to withdraw into “critic mode” and to lament my partner had not played by the rules. (I was being Meisner-righteous. That’s an expression Tzvi came up with.)
But in fact, there are no rules, except this one: No physical violence.
So let me present you with a remedy to feeling bad about the technique: Be Meisneritious!
(more…)
Post Category: Acting,Classes,General
May 14th, 2010 at 05:49pmboris
The Czech-German theatre-ensemble “POET’S CABARET” is offering a theater workshop weekend on the topic of hotel stories !
Based on improvisation studies (Keith Johnstone and others) we are going to create a crossover theater collage, accompanied by some experimental music scores.
Where?
Nekvasilova 625/2, Prague 8 – Karlín
Metro Station Invalidovna (B-line)
When?
Friday 28th – Sunday 30th of May 2010
daily between 10 to about 6 pm.
We offer valuable theater experience FOR FREE! (more…)
Post Category: Acting,General,Theatre,Workshops
May 10th, 2010 at 09:51amboris
Hi everyone!
I’m Boris Wilke and member of the Prague Playhouse Meisner acting group. I blog about our class activities.
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Let me be short and concise today!
I am totally thrilled about Mark Wakeling’s return to Prague in a month. In case you haven’t heard of him: He is a teacher at the “Actor’s Temple” in London. He held a weekend-seminar in late November of 2009 for us Meisner students at the Prague Film School. (Click here to read about it!) Now he promised to be back from June 7 to 11.
The seminar last year rocked my soul. It helped me keep on keeping on at this difficult time, where none of my efforts at getting started as a professional actor really seem to succeed. His version of Meisner also kept me from dropping out of this class. I have been looking forward to his oncoming seminar ever Brian started to talk about it, i.e. at least four months.
If you can afford it and have the time, please register for the seminar!
Mark will try his best to confront you with the inner barriers you set up to protect yourself against intense feelings. He is relentless in a way. But since Meisner is about the truth, it is absolutely necessary to get rid of these blocks. Mr. Wakeling will get you at places you wouldn’t even have known existed. If you trust him at least a little bit, he will help you free quite a bit of the aspects you carefully held captive inside for so long. You will shine!
Meisner is about getting ready to play anything – no! to be able to live it under imaginary circumstances. If you dare use the technique to the extreme – which Mark will help you with – it will get you there.
Mr. Wakeling will give you a good kick in the butt that will let you fly in the right direction.
He will take Meisner’s image of “the pinch and the ouch!” in a totally new and really pinchey-ouchey direction.
And that is absolutely, mind-bogglingly exiting to me.
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General stuff:
Our acting class consists of some twelve new and not so new active members, who meet every Monday and Wednesday from 6.30 pm to about 9.30 at the Prague Film School. We do Meisner. And the Meisner-technique really rocks!
If you want to connect with your inmost feelings, expressing them freely in an acting environment and thus getting to know yourself better and better, feel free to join us! If you do, be prepared for some serious thrills!
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About the author:
I am Boris Wilke, a German expat in Prague.
I am a writer at large and have been studying Meisner since January 2008. If any of you know of any kind of acting work that befits a laddish, tall 41-year-old, please leave a note!
Post Category: Acting,Classes,Films,General,Theatre,Workshops
May 5th, 2010 at 04:40pmboris
Monday is the start of a new semester for the Meisner Class, as well as the new advanced acting class (scene study), which is a continuation of the work which is being done in the Meisner class. If you’re interested in joining the Meisner class, please send an email or come to audit the class. The new Meisner class will run every Monday and Wednesday 18:30-21:30 from May 3rd to August 11th.
New students are always welcome!
Post Category: General
May 3rd, 2010 at 04:00pmbrian
Mark Wakeling, the founder of the Actor’s Temple in London, will be returning to Prague June 7th to the 11th for what is sure to be another extremely motivating and informative workshop. Mark has been a strong supporter of what the Playhouse has been doing in terms of training and has very generously agreed to come and do this 5 day workshop for a fraction of what it would cost in London.
Workshop participants will pay just 5 000 Kc for the 5 days. Observers are welcome to join for 100 Kc per day. If you are interested in signing up for either the workshop or to come as an observer, please get in touch with me via email. There is limited space available, so don’t delay! If you have wondered about acting or what actors do to prepare, you don’t want to miss this. This is training that you won’t get anywhere else in Prague!
Post Category: General
May 3rd, 2010 at 10:00ambrian
The Prague Shakespeare Festival is roaring through rehearsals on the upcoming production of Romeo and Juliet. The show is set to go up May 25 at 19:00. The venue is the wonderful outdoor theater at Vyšehrad. Tickets are an incredibly reasonable 200 Kč general / 150 Kč students & seniors. For tickets, call 222.513.842 or email pokladna@praha-vysehrad.cz. If you have questions about the show, you want to buy an ad in the program or sponsor the show, you can contact me: brian@pragueplayhouse.com.
The show boasts a HUGE cast and many wonderful actors from around town. Full information is after the break: (more…)
Post Category: Events,Theatre
May 2nd, 2010 at 04:22pmbrian
We’re starting a new course for Czechs or other non-native English speakers who would like to work on their acting skills in English. We’ll be covering accent and phrasing in English, text analysis, as well as truthfully working in the moment. If you’re interested in the class, you can find more information on the pragueplayhouse website or on facebook. The course will run 10 weeks. If you’re interested, you can send me an email at brian@pragueplayhouse.com with your acting CV and a headshot or recent picture. There will also be an audition in English to determine the appropriate level of English for the class as a whole. The deadline for applying for the class is April 10, 2010.
Post Category: Acting,Classes
April 2nd, 2010 at 02:26pmbrian
Well, folks, the 2010 Expats.cz and Prague.tv Playwriting Contest is behind us now. As I said at the Awards Ceremony, it simply would not have happened without all of the folks that donated their time to acting or directing, working behind the scenes and out with the public, to the folks that came to see it and voted for the winner of the audience award. The sponsors really came through in a big way as well and helped us with everything from a place to play, to advertising, to props, to prizes for the participants.
There are simply too many people to thank, but I want everyone to know that there is no way that any of this would happen without you!
Without further ado, I would like to congratulate Cohen Ambrose, who won the jury prize for Best Play for his piece “Hole in the Wall”. The award was based on the revised script and not the realization of the play. Julek Neumann and company won the audience award for Josh Kaston’s play “The Great Indoors”. The judging was fierce and the three finalists were really really close. Any one of the plays could have won the final prize. We are really indebted to all of the writers who submitted their work to the contest and hope that whether you won or not, you take the opportunity to push your work to the next level.
After the break, I just wanted to put down a few words about why we do the contest in the first place: why it was started and whether we will continue to do it. (more…)
Post Category: General
April 1st, 2010 at 11:29pmbrian
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