FREE WORKSHOP: DRAMATIC ADAPTATIONS
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum
Nov 5 4pm
Writer in Residence Amy Frey will work with students on what makes a successful dramatic adaptation, including text-to-scene writing, finding a voice, and character development. Students will have the opportunity to workshop their own dramatic adaptations, and receive feedback from the group.
FREE WORKSHOP: MASKS IN PERFORMANCE
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum
Feb 5 4pm
Writer in residence Amy Frey will work with students on the basics of mask-work, including physicality and improvisation. Students will explore the famous commedia dell’arte masks, including Arrlechino, Pantelone, Columbina, and Brighella, and will use their skills to create their own lazzi.
FREE WORKSHOP: ACTING SHAKESPEARE
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum
April 21 4pm
Red Monkey Theater Group Artistic Director Tal Aviezer will work with students on Shakespearean scenes and monologues, helping participants explore Elizabethan language, make dramatic choices, and bring characters to life.
About the Instructors
Tal Aviezer is the Artistic Director of Red Monkey Theater Group (RMTG), for whom he has directed 19 productions of Shakespeare’s plays over the past 23 years. His Shakespearean roles include Hamlet, Macbeth, Pericles, Shylock (The Merchant of Venice), Benedick (Much Ado About Nothing), Cassius (Julius Caesar), Edmund (King Lear), and many others. RMTG directing credits: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Copper Beeches, Twelfth Night, The Seagull, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, King Lear, Three Sisters, many others. Tal appears regularly as Sherlock Holmes in an ongoing series of original stage adaptations of classic stories at Lyndhurst mansion and Bartow-Pell Mansion-Museum. Acting credits: RMTG/M&M Performing Arts: The Seagull, Hamlet. RMTG: Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere, Julius Caesar, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, many others. He has also worked as a voice actor and voice director for video games and for numerous local and national radio stations. Training: National Theater Institute, Royal Shakespeare Company. Tal is a writer for the Wildlife Conservation Society. Later this season for RMTG: Richard III at Bartow-Pell Mansion-Museum.
Amy Frey, Red Monkey’s Writer in Residence, is an actor, playwright, and occupational therapist. Favorite roles include Hamlet, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere, The Seagull, A Scandal in Bohemia, meg, jo, beth, amy & louisa, Ladies in Waiting: The Judgement of Henry the Eighth and many others. Her plays include Monster, Bluebeard’s Wife, Masher, and On The Eve (winner of the Bare Knuckle Theater Festival) as well as co-writing meg jo beth amy & louisa, (nominated for “Theater Unleashed” award at the Hollywood Fringe Festival.) Her adaptations include Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Scandal in Bohemia, Agatha Christie’s The Mysterious Affair at Styles, and The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor, and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Education: Columbia University, Muhlenberg College, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), Moscow Art Theater (MXAT), and the Accademia Dell’Arte in Arezzo, Italy.
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