After a successful morning working on some of the lovers' scenes from A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Performance Ensemble class, I headed into the afternoon class in Perth Amboy in a pretty good mood. NBTF company member Ashley Everage joined me for class for the second time today, taking over in John's absence. The Perth Amboy project is challenging because we're leading a group of high schoolers through both writing and performing their own material. Ashley was an enormous help as we sat in a circle and listened to each student read the monologue he or she is developing. We both had lots of questions to ask each of them. Where is your character? Have you ever said anything like this to anyone before? What's your point of view of the person or people you're addressing? The students have really put a tremendous amount of work into getting inside of another person the way an actor must, but we still have a long way to go. We did manage to get on our feet a bit and do some physical exploration of the characters. More of that will happen once the scripts are finished. I'm looking forward to playwright Josh Levine's return visit to the class on Monday. Hopefully we'll be able to put the finishing touches on the texts and begin to really play around and rehearse these things. It's nice to have a deep roster of talented folks to call for back up.
NBTF executive committee tonight. Summer plans are heating up. Check back here for details.
Cheers,
Jen Ring
NBTF Director of Education
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