WESTERN RESERVE PLAYHOUSE ANNOUNCES THE NEXT COURSE IN THEIR NEW EDUCATION DEPARTMENT - AND IT’S COMING UP QUICKLY *PLAY!* (The Joy of Creating Play in Performance) Instructor: Victoria Kirgesner Dates/Time: January 29th - March 18th / Wednesdays 4:30pm - 6:00pm (8 weeks) Designed for students 8-13 years of age Cost: $95.00/student DEADLINE for registration is 24 hours before the first class (January 28th). Putting on a play (performing in, or participating in any way) is one of the most fulfilling experiences to the young student, as it engages the mind, especially the young mind, in all of the important facets of everyday life through a creative conduit. In this class, students will embrace and conquer all of the aspects of putting on a play: from basic acting/performance skills (including rhetoric, elocution, and memorization), to stage construction, crafting props, designing lights and costumes, marketing, and everything in between. Using theatre games designed by Viola Spolin and Paul Sills’ famed improvisation troupe Second City, the students will put on a very special performance: a play created and written by all of the students. Based on one or a series of stories that the group holds dear to their hearts, the ensemble will devise a brand new performance never before-seen, and then go on to produce it to the fullest. Students will not only be introduced to how to put on a play in a technical sense but how to work together, problem solve in a group, and sharpen respectful public presentation skills. The course will conclude in a public performance on the last day of class. Find out more at https://thewrp.org/event/wrp-education-department-2020-winter-course-catalog... Feel free to send any questions to our Education Director, August Scarpelli, at augusts@thewrp.org -- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited.