Project Discovery Plus Brings Twelfth Night Into The Classroom
Publicado el 2010-02-04 11:49:21 [0 comentarios]
Jennifer Salcido
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PROJECT DISCOVERY PLUS BRINGS TWELFTH NIGHT INTO THE CLASSROOM
Trinity Rep resident actors, teaching artists bring the Bard to 21 local schools
Trinity Rep's Education Department will continue to offer its popular "Project Discovery Plus” program which presents eight student matinees to local middle and high school students, as well as complimentary in-school workshops taught by cast members from the production. This year, an estimated 100 workshops planned around Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare will be presented in 21 schools in Barrington, Cranston, East Greenwich, Lincoln, Portsmouth, Providence and Scituate in RI; Barnstable, Douglas, Foxboro, Franklin, Millis, New Bedford, Osterville and Seekonk in MA; and Danielson in CT.
Project Discovery Plus began five years ago as part of Shakespeare for a New Generation, a national theater initiative sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts in cooperation with Arts Midwest. The program is a three-part experience, beginning with three in-class workshops held prior to the students attending the play, in order to prepare them for the production. The schools then attend one of the weekday Project Discovery student matinees at Trinity Rep. In the weeks following the performance, actors will once again visit their classrooms for three workshops in order to work with the students to reflect and build on what they've seen. The workshops can take a number of different forms, from an "Inside the Actors Studio" format to writing and performing their own adaptation of the play.
Education Director Caroline Azano states: "The impact on the students is immediate and powerful – they become engaged with the material, and their understanding of the text deepens exponentially as they see it performed, and as they, in turn, perform scenes from the play themselves."
Twelfth Night is Shakespeare’s tangled tale of romance amidst the revelry of the Twelfth Night festival on the stormy isle of Illyria. Brown/Trinity Rep MFA Actor Cherie Corinne Rice (’10) takes on the dual roles of Viola and her twin brother Sebastian, both of whose affections are in high demand. Mistaken identities are just the beginning of this topsy-turvy mess. Award-winning actor and director Brian McEleney (Hamlet, Our Town, A Raisin in the Sun) will direct and star in an ensemble that includes resident actors Stephen Berenson, Mauro Hantman, Anne Scurria, Fred Sullivan Jr., Stephen Thorne and Joe Wilson Jr.
Education programs surrounding Twelfth Night are part of Shakespeare for a New Generation, a national initiative sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts in cooperation with Arts Midwest. Trinity Rep's production of Twelfth Night is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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http://www.trinityrep.com/DownloadDocs/Cranston1.jpg Brown/Trinity Rep MFA Programs actor Annie Worden (second from left) ('10) plays improv games with 12th graders at Cranston High School East as part of a Project Discovery Plus workshop. Photo by Mark Turek |
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http://www.trinityrep.com/DownloadDocs/Cranston2.jpg Brown/Trinity Rep MFA Programs actor Annie Worden (far right, foreground) ('10) plays improv games with 12th graders at Cranston High School East as part of a Project Discovery Plus workshop. Photo by Mark Turek |
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http://www.trinityrep.com/DownloadDocs/Cranston3.jpg Brown/Trinity Rep MFA Programs actor Annie Worden (far right, foreground) ('10) plays improv games with 12th graders at Cranston High School East as part of a Project Discovery Plus workshop. Photo by Mark Turek |
TRINITY REPERTORY COMPANY
Since its founding in 1963, Trinity Repertory Company has been one of the most respected regional theaters in the country. Featuring the last permanent resident acting company in America, Trinity Rep presents a balance of world premiere, contemporary, and classic works for an estimated annual audience of approximately 135,000. In its 45-year history, the theater has produced 57 world premieres, mounted national and international tours, and, through its graduate-level theater arts conservatory, trained hundreds of new actors and directors. This season marks the 43rd year of Project Discovery, Trinity Rep's pioneering educational outreach program. Last season, the program introduced 25,000 Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut students to live theater. The Brown University/Trinity Rep Consortium offers professional training for actors and directors in a three-year MFA program. Trinity Rep's season presents six subscription productions and an annual production of A Christmas Carol. The 2009-2010 Season continues with Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, Dead Man’s Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl; The Odd Couple by Neil Simon and The Syringa Tree by Pamela Gien. For more information or to subscribe, call the box office at (401) 351-4242 or visit Trinity Rep's website at www.trinityrep.com.
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