[NEohioPAL]Raymond Bobgan Workshop

[Wishhounds at aol.com]

Save your place in a workshop taught by nationally recognized director=20
Raymond Bobgan.

Mr. Bobgan offers two workshops this April. These exciting classes offer a=20
glimpse into the processes and techniques used by Raymond and his company,=20
Wishhounds, in approaching plays and theatrical creation.=20

Mind Into Matter
Designed to serve performers in a variety of  theatrical genres, Mind Into=20
Matter is especially for actors seeking new inspiration in their own work,=20
and who desire a more intimate encounter with Wishhounds=92 approach to thea=
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creation.  Director Raymond Bobgan will work directly with participants to=20
create personal performative acts and will shape these individual pieces int=
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a group performance structure.
Thursday, Friday, Saturday,    April 4-6 , 7pm-10pm                        =20=
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             Fee: $50

Tri-Cycles
Explore three unique performance-based practices developed by Wishhounds.=20
These active meditations seek to mine creative resources and to enhance=20
awareness. This workshop will serve both performers and non-performers who=20
seek alternative possibilities of self-exploration. Led by Raymond Bobgan.=20
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,  April 9-11, 7pm-9pm                         =20=
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        Fee: $35

Raymond Bobgan has directed all Wishhounds' full productions and has directe=
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two recent smash hits at Cleveland Public Theatre: The Skin of Our Teeth  an=
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Summer and Smoke. Theatre Communications Group recently honored Bobgan as on=
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of the country=92s leading directors, selecting him for the Pew Charitable=20
Trust National Theatre Artist Residency Program. Mr. Bobgan=92s writings on=20
theatre have appeared in the Fall 1996 issue of Canadian Theatre Review, and=
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in Grotowski=92s Objective Drama Research by Lisa Wolford (University Press,=
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Miss., 1996).

Formerly known as Theatre Labyrinth, Wishhounds  was founded in Cleveland in=
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1995 and has since developed over ten original theatre pieces including  The=
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Warbling Carousel, Never Speak to Strangers, and Transformations of Lucius.=20
The group is dedicated to creating original performances through long-term=20
ensemble collaboration. Wishhounds has performed its work in South America,=20
Europe, and throughout North America and has been featured in American=20
Theatre Magazine and Canadian Theatre Review. Currently the members of the=20
group are working on Cleveland Public Theatre=92s Blue Sky Transmission: A=20
Tibetan Book of the Dead, opening this fall.

For more information or to register: send an e-mail to wishhounds at aol.com,=20
call (216) 965-1061 or send registration fee to: Wishhounds, P.O. Box 602040=
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Cleveland, OH 44102. All workshops will be conducted at Pilgrim=20
Congregational Church (UCC) 2592 West 14th in Tremont.