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Prague Playhouse Actor Newsletter

April 13th, 2007 at 02:07pm brian

—- Workshop Series: Since the success of the Prague Post Play Contest, we have been trying to figure out how to maintain momentum. In conversations with some of the finalist writers, it became clear that there was a great need for the writers to have a forum for receiving feedback. We gathered the plays we really liked from the contest but that didn’t make it into the finals, and are going to be workshoping them, one every month. The workshops will culminate in a staged reading at the Globe Bookstore. So far, we’ve identified “Celebrity Father” by Mark Moe, “Business Meeting” by Mark Corner, “Pot Bound” by Nolwenn Treguer, “Powder” by Adam Preston, “Vanishing Point” by Felix Meadowsweet, “The Sacred Sow” by Eleanor Cummins, “The Relievers” by Brandon Swanson and a play TBA by Louis Armand. There may be more to come! If you want to be involved in the workshops, either as an actor or working behind the scenes (and we will need help with publicity and other things!) please let me know via email.

—- Acting Classes. As you may know, the Prague Playhouse provides classes in the Meisner technique (http://pragueplayhouse.com/classes/acting-classes/meisner-acting-class/). The classes took a major turn for the better with the addition of a new teacher, Ben Steel. Ben is an Australian born actor and director and is very serious about the craft and teaching. With his help, the class has swelled to 13 regularly attending students and there is clearly visible progress. As the Playhouse starts producing more plays, we hope to be able to cast mostly from this dedicated pool of trained actors. The class is open to new registration and is currently free. We do, however, require a high level of dedication and will not tolerate students who are not willing to work in the class.

—- Women’s project. I hope that this doesn’t come across as sexist. In the course of working on the Play Contest, I found that most of the roles (and I think you’ll have to agree that this is true in the wider theater world as well) were for men. Several women approached me after the performances of the Contest and expressed interest in working with us but regret that there were so few opportunities. I thought it would be great to organize a project or series of projects specifically to give the women in our community a chance to stretch their acting muscles. I don’t have anything specific in mind yet, but if you are interested, please get in touch. I’d like to start meeting with key people in the next few weeks.

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That’s about it for now. If you know of someone who would like to receive updates on what’s going on for actors in Prague, point them in the direction of www.pragueplayhouse.com. There’s a link to “Join the Prague Playhouse” in the right navigation where they can add themselves to our database.

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