November 17, 2014, 2013
Newsletter
Fall 2014
See Page 2 for Audition Information!
Urinetown Opens Tomorrow!
Productions:
Urinetown
Music by Mark Hollmann, Lyrics by Hollmann and Greg Kotis
Book by Greg Kotis
Directed by Richard Perez
November 18-22, 7:30 p.m.
November 21, 8:00 p.m.
November 22, 2:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m,
Upcoming
Dates:
November
17
Extended ACTF Sign-up
Deadline, 5pm.
18-20
Urinetown, 7:30pm,
DeWitt Main Theatre
21
Urinetown, 8:00pm, DeWitt Main Theatre
22
Urinetown, 2:00pm &
7:30pm, DeWitt Main Theatre
23
The Hinterlands Ensemble workshop, 7pm, Main Theatre
24
Spring Semester Auditions, 3-5pm, 7-10pm Main
Theatre
Ushers Needed
USHERS: Want to see the
Urinetown for free? We need
ushers every night of the performance! Sign up in the office.
No experience neccessary!
Spring Semester Auditions
Auditions for the spring semester productions, the Devised Project with the Hinterlands and The
Children’s Hour will take place on Monday, November 24 from 3-5pm and 7-10pm in the Main
Theatre. Auditions will be by 10 minute slot and you can sign up for your slot in the Main Theatre
lobby.
Experienced theatre students should prepare two contrasting monologues and a cut of a song (if
they wish to be considered for the Hinterlands piece - see below for more detail).
If you are interested in the Hinterlands piece, please prepare a short song - something not originally from a theatrical production and that isn’t contemporary pop music either. It doesn’t have to
be a folk song per se but it shouldn’t have been on the pop radio charts in the last 5 years either.
No longer than a minute.
For those who do not have prepared material, cold readings are provided at the audition and require no preparation.
All Members of the Hope College Community are encouraged to audition.
The Hinterlands Workshop #3
The Hinterlands are returning Sunday, November 23 to continue their series of workshops in
preparation for the devised piece that will open in February. The aim of the workshop is to establish a vocabulary of devising, which we will collectively build upon in further workshops throughout the semester, and ultimately into the production process.
This workshop will be followed on Monday by auditions for the Spring Semester productions.
We encourage all students to take advantage of this opportunity to work with this innovative,
genre-defying group. To find out more about Richard Newman and The Hinterlands, visit http://
thehinterlandsensemble.org/.
Stage Managers and Assistant Stage Managers
Needed
If you are interested in participating in one of this fall’s productions as a stage manager or an
assistant stage manager, please contact Michelle Bombe at bombe@hope.edu. The stage management team plays a vital role in the running of rehearsals and productions and have the opportunity to experience all aspects of the production process.
Stage Managers: Must have taken THEA 250: Stage Mangement and ASMed at least one production.
Assistant Stage Managers: No prior experience is required.
Digital Theatre Resources
Looking to learn from theatrical performances and workshops through our own libary system? Our
two streaming theatre databases are available through the libary! You can access them through the
library website or from the links:
Digital Theatre Plus
Contains dozens of full productions, documentaries and interviews with theatre-makers.
http://0-www.digitaltheatreplus.com.lib.hope.
edu/
Routledge Performance Archive
Practitioner-focused audio/video resource for
the theatre arts. Videos of workshops and textual materials
http://0-www.routledgeperformancearchive.
com.lib.hope.edu/
Opportunities with Double Edge Theatre
Winter Intensive: January 1 - 7
This annual 7-day intensive takes place in the snowy hills of Double Edge's Farm Center in Ashfield, Massachusetts. It is an immersive introduction to the ensemble's 32-year-old original training methodology layering individual and group work, rigorous physical training with improvisation, design, dramaturgy, the voice, and work with objects and flying. Participants work closely
with the multi-national Double Edge ensemble, and work indoors and outdoors at Double Edge's
rural/international center in the hills of Western Mass.
Spring Immersion: January 25 - April 25
Mentored by the core artists of the ensemble, participants train daily, take part in design labs, vocal
exploration, dramaturgy sessions, and large object work that fuels the creation of their own work.
As a special feature to the Spring Immersion program, participants will have the opportunity to
train with a host of Double Edge collaborators, including a week exchange with SITI company;
two weeks with Albuquerque’s Qstaff theater (specialities include singing, physical training and
stilting); and master classes with guest artists from Russia, Poland, Hungary, and Argentina. In
addition, participants will experience The Grand Parade on tour at the Redfern Arts Center (Keane, New Hampshire) and Arts Emerson (Boston, MA) and watch the work-in-progress of Double
Edge’s Latin American summer 2015 performance.
Have something you would like to share? Please send an email by Thursday afternoon for inclusion in the Monday newsletter to Reagan Chesnut at
chesnut@hope.edu