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 specialperformance: a play created and written by all of the students. Basedon one or a series of stories that the group holds dear to theirhearts, the ensemble will devise a brand new performance neverbefore-seen, and then go on to produce it to the fullest. Studentswill not only be introduced to how to put on a play in a technicalsense but how to work together, problem solve in a group, and sharpenrespectful public presentation skills. The course will conclude in apublic performance on the last day of class.Find out more athttps://thewrp.org/event/wrp-education-department-2020-winter-course-catalogue/Feel free to send any questions to our Education Director, August Scarpelli, at august@thewrp.org