Teens age 13-19 Welcome
No Experience Necessary
(Dates may shift slightly based on auditorium availability)
The unforgettable complex characters of MASH will Make you laugh and cry while bringing to light the insanity of war through a medical triage team who created their own comedic bedlam as to not go crazy. They cared about saving lives, no matter how stretched they were, MASH showcases the best in us, for MASH is a comedy, trauma, satire, and melodrama all at once.
Imagining that Mistress Ford and Mistress Page have each fallen for him, the lecherous, fat knight Sir John Falstaff decides to seduce them both, as much for their husbands’ money as for their personal charms. Wise to the old rogue’s tricks, the women turn the tables on him with a series of side splitting, humiliating assignations, a forest full of fairies, and a very damp, extremely smelly laundry basket. Add in perceived love triangle, a daughter who needs to choose between three suitor… What could go wrong?
With characters that leap off the page onto the stage, this show has it all! A tender love story, a reformed rogue in the making, a serpentine villainess, a glittering setting in London society and a shower of Wildean witticisms showcase the best and worst of humanity. This 1895 drama also seems eerily prescient, as it explores the plight of a promising young politician, desperate to hide a secret in his past. With empathy and wit, Wilde explores the pitfalls of holding public figures to higher standards than the rest of us. Set to stage in the opulent roaring twenties, this is sure to the delight!
Mandatory heck week starts Friday, July 19th.
Performances: July 26th 27th and 28th.
The program includes: learning how to do dramaturgy, script analysis, blocking, and putting on a full-length show utilizing collaborative leadership and your scene partners develop professional theatricality while having fun!
Shows are chosen for cast chemistry, compliment, and talent.
Text 708-655-0989 to set up your program interview.
Teens age 13-19 Welcome
No Experience Necessary
9:45 – Quick Parent Meeting and Teen Improv
10:00- Developing your Inner Playwright – Ron Keaton
11:00 – Stand Up Comedy – Ramiro Lynch
12:00 – Sack Lunch (hard boiled egg allergy)
12:30 – Creativity in Careers – TBA
1:30 – Stage Combat – Tristin and Chole
2:30 – Using Your Stage Scene Partners – Felicia Pfluger
3:30 – Neutral body postures and commanding your physicality – Donna Prenta
Fall 2024 Production Auditions at end of workshop
In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rage—until the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease. Inspired by a true story, Radium Girls traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she fights for her day in court. Her chief adversary is her former employer, Arthur Roeder, an idealistic man who cannot bring himself to believe that the same element that shrinks tumors could have anything to do with the terrifying rash of illnesses among his employees.
As the case goes on, however, Grace finds herself battling not just with the U.S. Radium Corporation, but with her own family and friends, who fear that her campaign for justice will backfire. Written with warmth and humor, Radium Girls is a fast-moving, highly theatrical ensemble piece for 9 to 10 actors, who play more than 30 parts—friends, co-workers, lovers, relatives, attorneys, scientists, consumer advocates, and myriad interested bystanders. Called a “powerful” and “engrossing” drama by critics, Radium Girls offers a wry, unflinching look at the peculiarly American obsessions with health, wealth, and the commercialization of science.
This unusual play with its shattering last scene has proven so successful it is probably winning more contests presently than any other short play. Published originally in The New Yorker magazine, it produced an unprecedented reaction, and this dramatization captures the story that has become an internationally known classic. Like the story, the play starts as people are assembling for the lottery. What family will it be this time? Which member? Only gradually do we begin to suspect the nature of the lottery as the play builds swiftly to its crucial and moving climax. The tension and thrill of the play are built into its very structure.
Like The Lottery, this macabre tale makes use of the rural New England setting and the cryptic, taciturn inhabitants of that area. Its two principal characters are kindly city people who have been visiting their same cottage by an isolated lake for several decades. They have always been treated with respect and affection by the tradesmen and local residents—until this particular year. On an impulse, they decide to break a longstanding taboo. Instead of closing their summer place and going back to the city on Labor Day as all “outsiders” invariably do, they decide to linger into autumn. The action of the natives is one of unspoken shock and silent hostility. One by one, the villagers isolate the couple. Even the telephone service is abruptly cut off. The falling of the curtain is as chilling and as sinister as any in the literature of the one-act play.
Rehearsal start September 10th
6 -9 Tuesdays
6 -9 Wednesdays
12 -3 Saturdays
Fall show dates:
Friday, November 15
Saturday, November 16
Sunday, November 17
Mandatory heck week starts the Friday before opening night
The program includes: learning how to do dramaturgy, script analysis, blocking, and putting on a full-length show utilizing collaborative leadership and your scene partners develop professional theatricality while having fun!
Shows are chosen for cast chemistry, compliment, and talent.
Text 708-655-0989 to set up your program interview.