Greetings all!
Here’s what we’re offering up for April – guaranteed to be tons of fun!
A Quartet of Comedies for Spring
(Just the thing to chase away those rainy winter blahs)
As You Like It
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night
Featuring such memorable characters as Beatrice and Benedick, Touchstone and Audrey, Bottom and Titania, Toby and Aguecheek, and many more!
Bring your heart, your funny bone and your truth!
ALL DETAILS BELOW - DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION APRIL 3, 2006.
AND SOME GREAT NEWS!
This month we celebrate the casting of a repeat student of ours, Ian Butcher, in Bard on the Beach’s 2006 season. Ian will be playing Angelo in “Measure for Measure” and Oberon in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. Congratulations Ian!
And finally, some feedback from our February “Love, Sex and Power” class:
“I just wanted to thank you both for a really great Shakespeare experience. You provided a safe place for me to learn and remember the things I had already learned and were just in storage somewhere in my body (love that cellular memory!). It was a good way for me to find my way back to the stage. It made me remember how much I love working with the Shakespearean text. I love acting when it's hardest I think, when you have difficult words to learn, a meaning first to discover and then express, and then you still have character intention and emotion -- and hey, let's not forget the singing! But more than that, at that last class, I had the experience of connecting with an audience and it's been way too long since that happened for me.
So, thank you for all of the above and for your kind words of instruction and encouragement. I will be back again to take another month of classes.”
Warm regards,
Christina Campbell
WELCOME TO
THE SHAKESPEARE CENTRE
ONGOING PROFESSIONAL TRAINING IN SHAKESPEAREAN TEXT AND SCENE STUDY
THE INSTRUCTOR
Donald Adams has been an actor and teacher for over twenty five years. He has performed Shakespearean roles across Canada and the U.S. for the Stratford Festival, The Canadian Stage, The Playhouse, The Citadel, The Arts Club and Bard on the Beach. Donald has taught acting at The Stratford Festival, The Maggie Bassett Studio, University of Waterloo and Sir Wilfred Laurier University, as well as six seasons on the faculty of The Young Shakespearean Training Program at Bard on the Beach. A two time Jessie award winning actor, Donald’s credits are too numerous to list but he was particularly honoured to play the title role in Bard on the Beach’s production of “Macbeth”. He is also proud to have co-produced and co-directed the critically acclaimed “Shakespeare Centre’s One Year Birthday Celebration” at Christ Church Cathedral, as well as premiering “The Capulet Family Album” at The Firehall Arts Centre’s Spring Buds Festival May 21-22, which he directed and dramaturged. This past summer, Donald taught at Bard on the Beach’s Young Shakespeareans’ workshops and, most recently, starred in Touchstone Theatre’s “Little Mercy’s First Murder” – voted one of the top ten plays of 2005 by numerous critics. Having just filmed a lead role in Pale Christian Thomas’s independent feature film, “Quest for Samurai”, he is presently appearing in Touchstone/Pacific Theatre’s co-production of “The Prodigal Son”.
WHO: EXPERIENCED ACTORS ONLY PLEASE – LANGARA, UBC, SIMON FRASER AND OTHER STUDENTS WELCOME - APPLICATIONS DUE BY APRIL 3 FOR APRIL SESSIONS AND SUBJECT TO INSTRUCTOR APPROVAL – 10 STUDENTS MAX
WHEN: 7:00– 10:00 PM MONDAYS, APRIL 10, 17, 24 AND MAY 1.
WHERE: CAROUSEL THEATRE – GRANVILLE ISLAND
HOW MUCH: - $200/MO
NON-REFUNDABLE DEPOSIT OF $125 DUE UPON ACCEPTANCE INTO CLASS IN ORDER TO HOLD SPACE – REMAINING BALANCE DUE FIRST NIGHT OF CLASS. IN THE EVENT THAT A PARTICIPANT MUST CANCEL, DEPOSIT CAN BE APPLIED TO A FUTURE CLASS.
CONTACT JO BATES AT 604-739-7829 OR jobates@excite.com FOR ENROLLMENT INFORMATION.
