**AUDITION CALL FOR TEEN ACTORS 14-18**

Raising The Bar: Exploring The Actor's Process

TEEN ADVANCED PERFORMANCE INTENSIVE

Wheelock Family Theatre is holding auditions for teens with prior training and performance experience committed to deepening their acting skills and knowledge of the craft.  A limited number of admission slots are available on a rolling basis.  Those actors selected for this program will immerse themselves for two weeks in intensive advanced theatre training.

 Through challenging exercises and workshops in vocal, movement, and character work, and exploration of scenes from outstanding plays, students will experience the actor's process in-depth. This unique program culminates in a Showcase on our WFT Mainstage.

 

*PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS: *Specific Individualized Attention and Feedback -*Intensive Ensemble Training  -*Building Core Set of Acting Tools Vital To Every Actor’s Success-  *Breaking through Individual Acting barriers/Issues  -*Teen actors stretch and challenged to go out of their “comfort zone” to take acting to a higher level

 

*PROGRAM DATES: Aug 3 - Aug 14, 2015 (Mon.-Fri.)

Hours: 12:00-6:45pm 

Location: Wheelock Family Theatre, Boston

Main Stage Showcase: Friday, August 14 at 8:00pm.

 

*AUDITION DATES:

TUESDAY, APRIL 21  (4-7pm)

SUNDAY, APRIL 26   (1-4pm)

(Alternate audition times may be scheduled if necessary)

 

To schedule an audition, please email your arts resume and a note of interest to:  Fran Weinberg,  Director

WFT Teen Advanced Performance Intensive

Email:  franb28@erols.com

 

*AUDITION REQUIREMENTS: Two contrasting monologues from plays, one comedy and one drama, totaling approximately three minutes. One of the two pieces should be from either: a classical play, any play that emphasizes heightened language, or a play written before 1960.

Why Saint Joan?

“There were only two opinions about her. One was that she was miraculous: the other that she was unbearable.”

George Bernard Shaw’s provocative masterpiece features one of Boston’s most celebrated young talents, Andrea Ross, the youngest performer to be honored with an Elliot Norton Award. Joan of Arc, the world’s first feminist teen rebel, bucked against all the conventions of the Middle Ages. She didn’t hesitate to speak her mind, wear men’s clothes, lead a charge of soldiers, or talk with God —and she was burned at the stake before she reached the age of 20. Joan’s extraordinary journey, her unbounded faith, and her passionate determination to enthrone a King; produces what many consider to be Shaw’s greatest play. Expect to be inspired, uncertain, and dismayed; but above all, expect to recognize, in these characters of the year 1429, qualities and conflicts still crucially important in the world of 2008.

Are exceptional people doomed to be destroyed by society?

Under what circumstances is it acceptable to defy authority?

Is capital punishment “just”?Do we consider it possible for women to be leaders of men?

The drama of Saint Joan is the eternal quest for Truth. Will reason outweigh belief? Does faith excoriate logic? Shaw’s Saint Joan is immediate and unfiltered; its intensity and immediacy arouses individual identification, empathy, and discovery. Share the experience of live theatre at Wheelock Family Theatre’s production of Saint Joan.

SAINT JOAN CAST LIST

Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw

October 31 - November 30, 2008

Friday nights at 7:30, Saturday & Sunday matinees at 3:00

with Andrea Ross as Joan of Arc

Featuring Dosha beard, James Bodge, Shelley Bolman, Chelsea brannon, Dan Dowling, Jr., Kenny Fuentes, De'Lon Grant, Neil Gustafson, Eric Hamel, Marc Harpin, Steven M. Key, Bill Mootos, Luis Negran, Cliff Odle, Jonathan Overby, Dale Place, Brian Quint, Gerard Slattery, Cameron VanderWerf, & Alan White.

www.wheelock.edu/wft