[NEohioPAL] Shakespeare Performance Intensive, AGES 13 - 18

[Melanie YC Pepe]

NEWS RELEASE 
Contact: Melanie YC Pepe (330) 836-2626
www.WeathervanePlayhouse.com

Weathervane Playhouse
1301 Weathervane Lane  *  Akron, Ohio  44313


NEW!! Shakespeare Performance Intensive is a summer workshop designed as a crash course in Shakespearean language and performance. Students will learn how to approach Shakespeare's text as well as fundamentals of acting Shakespearean plays, specific memorization techniques and characterization methods. Specific skills include: Acting with iambic pentameter and scansion, using operative words and level of commitment - both physical and linguistic. Collaboratively, students will create a performance for the final day of class.  Karen Sabo has studied Shakespeare at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, and at Shakespeare & Company in Massachusetts. She has played numerous roles in Shakespeare productions, and directed her own adaptation of The Tempest for the Jonesborough Repertory Theatre in Tennessee. She has taught Shakespearean acting techniques to private students and as part of traditional acting classes for many years. Karen is currently teaching at Baldwin-Wallace College.

Shakespeare Performance Intensive
Prerequisite: Previous class or performance experience required.
13 to 18 years old 
July 12 - 23
Mondays - Fridays
10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Instructor: Karen Sabo, AEA
Tuition $300
Please pack a lunch!



Additional Summer Camps 2010

Kids Take the Stage Summer Camps engage students in acting, improvisation, staging, auditioning and technical theater.
The class uses theater games to teach the fundamentals, and focuses on collaboratively creating a performance for the class day.

Kids Take the Stage!  Act One
6 to 8 years old 
June 14 - 25
Mondays - Fridays
10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Instructor: Rachel Galambos
Tuition $260
Please pack a lunch!

Kids Take the Stage!  Act Two
8 to 10 years old 
July 5 - July 16
Mondays - Fridays
10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Instructor: Rachel Galambos
Tuition $260
Please pack a lunch!

Kids Take the Stage!  Act Three
10 to 12 years old
July 19 - 30
Mondays - Fridays
10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Instructor: Rachel Galambos
Tuition $260
Please pack a lunch!

New Kids on the Block is a summer session for 3 to 5 year olds.
Students use their creativity to explore theater arts through games, storytelling and creative drama.

New Kids on the Block:  Puppets & Plays
Ages 3 to 5
July 5 - 9
Monday - Friday
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Instructor: Kristin Benner
Tuition $110
Please pack a snack!

New Kids on the Block:  Music & Dance
Ages 3 to 5
June 14 - 18
Monday - Friday
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Instructor: Kristin Benner
Tuition $110
Please pack a snack!

The Audition Workshop is an summer session for students age 7 to 16.
This workshop will help students create an "audition package" for each student consisting of the following:
a Dramatic monologue, comedic monologue, classical monologue & a musical audition with steps.

Audition Workshop
Ages 7 to 16
June 28 - July 2
Monday - Friday
1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Instructor: Kristin Benner
Tuition $160
Please pack a snack!


Musical Theater is a summer session custom designed to meet the needs of individual students.
The class will build skills in voice, dance, and audition technique. Each student can work at his or her own pace.

Musical Theater, Act One
Ages 5 to 9
July 19 - 30
Mondays - Fridays
10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Instructor: Sarah Bailey, M.M.
Tuition $220
Please pack a snack!

Musical Theater, Act Two
Ages 9 to 14
June 14 - 25
Mondays - Fridays
10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Instructor: Sarah Bailey, M.M.
Tuition $220
Please pack a snack!

The Broadway Dance Camp is a summer session custom designed to meet the needs of beginning and intermediate students.
Theater training in movement for the stage, dance steps and combinations, acting & audition techniques allows each student to advance at his or her own pace.
Collaboratively, students create a performance for the final day of class.

Broadway Dance Camp, Act One
Ages 7 to 16
July 5 - July 9
Monday - Friday
10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Instructor: Karen Sabo
Tuition $160
Please pack a lunch!

Broadway Dance Camp, Act Two
Ages 7 to 16
July 26 ~ 30
Monday - Friday
10:00 a.m. ~ 1:00 p.m.
Instructor: Kristen Benner
Tuition $160
Please pack a lunch!

Students in the Character Workshop will focus on the understanding of creating a character.
Such as creating a physical life and voice, understanding given circumstances in the world of the play and understanding how your character is different from you.
Students will discover many ways a character can behave, think, feel, experience things and express themselves differently than the actor.
Students will have the opportunity to apply these skills through scene work, which will be presented on the final day of class.

Character Workshop
Ages 7 to 16
June 28 - July 2
Monday - Friday
10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Instructor: Kristin Benner
Tuition $160
Please pack a lunch! 


Vocal Music Technique covers the fundamentals of vocal technique, and is suitable for beginners to intermediate singers.
Specific topics include posture, breathing and support, eliminating muscular tension, resonance, and diction.
Each student will apply these techniques through work on 2 vocal pieces, a musical theater number and a classical piece.
Time is allotted for group exercises and voluntary solo singing.

Vocal Music Technique, Session I
Ages 10 to 14
July 12 - July 16
Monday - Friday
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon
Instructor: Sarah Bailey, M.M.
Tuition $110
Please bring bottled water & a snack!

Vocal Music Technique, Session II
Ages 14 to 18
July 12 - July 16
Monday - Friday
1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Instructor: Sarah Bailey, M.M.
Tuition $110
Please bring bottled water & a snack!

Summer Stock is a workshop designed for students who have already had some theatrical experience.
Students will produce and design a full production to be performed on our mainstage.
The title of this piece is TBA - check our website for more information.
The final performances will be held on August 6 & 7 at 7:00 p.m. Space is limited!

Summer Stock 2010
It's All in the Timing by David Ives
Ages 13 to 18
July 26 to August 7
Mondays - Fridays
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Directed by Robert Putka
Technical Direction by Charles Korecki
Tuition $325
Please pack a lunch!
Performances: Friday, August 6th and Saturday, August 7th

http://www.weathervaneplayhouse.com
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