The Bear Theater will present Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at Reduta Theater (Narodni 20, Prague 1) on December 13 and 14 at 7pm. Tickets are 220Kc (180Kc discounted) and are available at the box office. It is suitable for families (children from the age of 6).
Ebeneezer Scrooge is the meanest old man in London, but one evening four ghosts visit him and teach him the true meaning of Christmas. The Bear Theatre stay close to the essence of Dicken’s original story but still use film, puppets and real mince pies to communicate the spirit of this classic Christmas tale. God bless us, each and every one!
Post Category: Events, Theatre
December 2nd, 2009 at 12:34pmbrian
Hi everyone!
I’m Boris Wilke and member of the Prague Playhouse Meisner acting group. I blog about our class activities.
In this entry I will shut up for once and let Marc Wakeling speak. His workshop (November 28 and 29, 2009) in the attic of the Prague Film School was a life changing experience. After that “Meisner earthquake” the lame exercises we’ve been doing lately in and out of class just don’t cut it any more!
Click on the “CLASSES” button above and then choose “ACTING FOR PROFESSIONALS” to read more about the class itself and where we meet!
This is some of Marc’s wisdom:
To act means to do.
Apart form violence there are no rules.
The intellectual mind switches on when preparing for the acting. The emotional mind switches on when acting.
We’re animals in our impulsive state. And acting means being in our impulsive state.
The only two pure feelings are joy and grief. (more…)
Post Category: Acting, Classes, Films, General, Theatre, Workshops
November 29th, 2009 at 11:35pmboris
Hi everyone!
I’m Boris Wilke and member of the Prague Playhouse Meisner acting group. I blog about our class activities.
This entry is about how we Meisner students must be ready to invest a lot of time and energy in this work, if we want to succeed as professional actors.
Click on the “CLASSES” button above and then choose “ACTING FOR PROFESSIONALS” to read more about the class itself and where we meet!
I’ve had a “run” of “doors” and “activities” lately. I mean, they worked. And that was due to a large part to the fact that I have been investing roughly one hour per day in this work for about two months now. However, I’ve made the experience that as soon as I quit being serious about it, I encounter difficulties. And the exercise blows up in my face.
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Post Category: Acting, Auditions, Classes, General, Theatre
November 24th, 2009 at 01:27amboris
There are several interesting events coming up in the English-language theater world.
The Prague Fringe is offering two comedy nights this season. Both are likely to sell out quickly, so don’t hesitate to book tickets! November 17th: Stephen Frost Impro All-Stars at Divadlo na Pradle. December 15th, David O’Doherty at Divadlo na Pradle. More info and tickets at: http://www.praguefringe.com/2009/comedynights.php.
AKANDA is showing SEX, DRUGS, ROCK & ROLL at Divadlo Barfly, U Milosrdných 4, Prague 1. November 27, 28 and December 3 and 4 at 19:30. It’s a black comedy by award-winning playwright Eric Bogosian. Biting social commentary guaranteed to make you laugh at the most inappropriate things and question your own mental health. Over-the-top characters become caricatures of people we have all have met in our lives and hope we will never see again.
Students from NYU are performing two short plays by Vaclav Havel at Divadlo na Zabradli, Anenske namesti 5. December 5 and 6 at 2pm. The students are acting, directing and producing the plays, Audience and Unveiling, themselves. It should be well worth a look. Tickets are 120 Kc and available by emailing nyupraguetheatre@gmail.com.
Post Category: Comedy, Events, Theatre
November 12th, 2009 at 06:07pmbrian
The Prague Playhouse will be having auditions for True West, the dark comedy by Sam Sheppard, this coming Tuesday, November 10th, from 6-9pm at the Prague Film School, Pstrossova 15, Prague 1 (kind of across the street from the Globe Bookstore). We are asking for a 2 minute monologue for the audition.
The show will start rehearsals now and be performed at the end of January. Jeff Beck will direct the show. Actors will be paid 300 Kc per performance. We are planning 6-10 performances.
We are looking for the following roles (ages are approximate):
Austin – late twenties/early thirties – screenwriter
Lee – His older brother – late thirties/early forties
Saul Kimmer – Hollywood producer
Mom – mother of the boys.
Please write to brian@pragueplayhouse.com to schedule an audition.
Thanks!
Brian
608 577 012
Post Category: Auditions, Theatre
November 5th, 2009 at 06:26pmbrian
Hi everyone!
I’m Boris Wilke and member of the Prague Playhouse Meisner acting group. I blog about our class activities.
This entry is about how the Meisner technique can help you win auditions or at least make them a fun experience.
Click on the “CLASSES” button above and then choose “ACTING FOR PROFESSIONALS” to read more about the class itself and where we meet!
Brian just put up a new post here about auditions for a play. I won’t tell you what it is: It has too foolish a title. Anyway, they are looking for English-speaking actors of all ages and types and of both sexes. Click here to read for yourself!
Since there are very few opportunities for acting work for English-speakers in Prague in general, and this year, due to the financial crisis, in particular, all of a sudden, all of the Prague-based actors and actresses will swoop down on this like vultures – me included. They will most likely be way more experienced than you and me, of course more beautiful. And they will be ready to do almost anything to get on the ticket. After all it will be a paid job. They will probably even resort to showing off various body parts or bribe the jury with innuendo, cigarettes and/or Hašlerky (Czech cough drops). (more…)
Post Category: Acting, Auditions, Classes, General, Theatre
November 3rd, 2009 at 06:24pmboris
The Black Snow theater company is overseeing a production in English of Dorta Maslowska’s play A Couple of Poor Polish-Speaking Romanians for Divadlo na Zabradli.
They are having auditions Sunday November 15 from 11am-5pm at the theater: Anenske namesti 5.
Callbacks are November 22nd. Rehearsals begin March 15, 2010. The show will run in repre3tory at Divadlo na Zabradli starting May 15, 2010.
This is a paid production commissioned and supported by the theater.
They are looking for male and female actors of all ages and types.
To schedule an audition, please contact Nicole Grisco at blacksnow.elt@gmail.com
Post Category: Auditions, Theatre
November 2nd, 2009 at 06:39pmbrian
Hi everyone!
I’m Boris Wilke and member of the Prague Playhouse Meisner acting group. I blog about our class activities.
This entry is about how a feeling of weightlessness can make the Meisner technique a heavenly experience.
Click on the “CLASSES” button above and then choose “ACTING FOR PROFESSIONALS” to read more about the class itself and where we meet!
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Post Category: General
October 28th, 2009 at 04:30pmboris
On November 4th, 2009 at the Rudolfinum, Struny Podzimu, one of Prague’s premier music festivals, is hosting Michael York and pianist Libor Nováček as part of their 2009 season. The music will be Enoch Arden, a melodrama for reciter and piano by Richard Strauss and a piano sonata by Leoš Janáček (On an Overgrown Path, Piano Sonata 1.X. 1905 in E flat minor ‘From the Street’).
The charismatic York, famous from award-winning films like Cabaret, The Three Musketeers, and Murder on the Orient Express, has performed roles in more than a hundred other films and theatrical productions, recited in numerous musical projects, and lent his sonorous voice to more than ninety audio books. In 2002 York recorded the melodrama Enoch Arden with pianist John Bell Young, with whom he also performed it successfully in several important festivals in the USA and Europe. His current collaboration with the gifted Czech pianist Libor Nováček, living for many years now in Great Britain, has been arranged specially at the request of the Strings of Autumn Festival. More information on www.strunypodzimu.cz.
Tickets:
Festival Information and Sales Centre (in the National Theatre box office), Ostrovní 1,
Mon.-Thurs. 11 AM – 6 PM
Ticketpro – www.ticketpro.cz
At the concert site an hour before the beginning of the event.
Reservations: www.strunypodzimu.cz,
tel.: 224 901 247 (Mon.-Thurs. 11 AM – 6 PM),
e-mail: vstupenky@strunypodzimu.cz
Post Category: Events, Music
October 28th, 2009 at 12:25ambrian
Hi everyone!
I’m Boris Wilke and member of the Prague Playhouse Meisner acting group. I blog about our class activities.
This entry is about how failure is a necessary albeit not so fun way to improve one’s Meisner technique .
Click on the “CLASSES” button above and then choose “ACTING FOR PROFESSIONALS” to read more about the class itself and where we meet!
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Post Category: Acting, Classes, General
October 24th, 2009 at 06:43pmboris
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