TALK AND WORKSHOP BY LEE BREUER AND MAUDE MITCHELL (USA)
Presented by National Arts Council in association with TTRP
A. SYNTHESIS…. MEYERHOLD, STANISLAVSKI AND BRECHT COMBINED
Talk by Lee Breuer
Date & Time: 23 June 07 (Saturday), 5:30 PM
Venue: Drama Centre Theatre
Admission: Free
B. WORKSHOP FOR ACTORS AND DIRECTORS
by Lee Breuer and Maude Mitchell
Date and Time:
22 June 07 (Friday), 2 - 6pm (First session)
24 June 07 (Sunday), 2 - 6pm (Second session)
Venue: TTRP, Emily Hill - 11 Upper Wilkie Road
Workshop fee:
a) S$280 per participant (Registration Closed)
Fee includes:
- Workshop participation (both sessions)
- 1 ticket to the performance on 21 June
b) S$40 per observer
Sign up now to join Lee Breuer and Maude Mitchell in a workshop specially conceived for actors and directors! Only 15 places available. With Lee Breuer’s background in Postmodern Performance, together with Maude Mitchell’s in Meisner, this will be a rare training opportunity synthesized from a variety of acting and directing techniques.
Directors present 5- to 10-minute”working” or “unfinished” scenes of their choice, (classic or original) using actors of their choice. The scenes may be in the preferred language of the participant and from either the Western or Asian traditions. Lee and Maude will critique and rework scenes with the directors. An assignment may be set for participants to work on for the 2nd session. Actors will present short monologues of their choice to be reworked with the instructors. Original Mabou Mines exercises will be introduced to the class. A script in English should be submitted to the instructors at least one day before each acting or directing scene is shown.
Participants should have some experience. Up to 30 observers will be allowed. TTRP and the instructors reserve the right to select the final list of workshop participants and observers based on considerations of optimizing the learning opportunity for all.
About Lee Breuer
Lee Breuer is a founding artistic director of Mabou Mines Theatre Company, a stage director, lyricist, writer and teacher. He is a MacArthur Fellow, a Radcliffe/Harvard Bunting Fellow, and a Fulbright, Guggenheim, Ford and Rockefeller fellow. He has directed 13 Obie award winning performances and received two Obies each for Best Play and Musical, writing (including Best American Play), directing, and the Obie for Career Achievement as well as Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award nominations. His best known works are The Gospel at Colonus, with Bob Telson and Morgan Freeman, Peter and Wendy with Karen Evans Kandel, Mabou Mines DollHouse with Maude Mitchell, Samuel Beckett’s The Lost Ones with David Warrilow, and A Prelude to Death in Venice with Bill Raymond. He has taught at New York University Columbia University, The American Theatre of Paris, London, Stanford University, the Moscow Art Theatre, The Beijing Drama Academy, Harvard University, and was co-chairman of the directing department at Yale Drama School. His books include La Divina Caricatura, Sister Suzie Cinema and Animations. He is a member of The Actors Studio. Lee has five children and lives in Brooklyn.
About Maude Mitchell
Maude is a graduate of Oberlin College and The Neighborhood Playhouse where she received her conservatory certificate in acting under Sanford Meisner. Working as both actor and dramaturg she has concentrated on interpretations of the classics and developing new texts. Her collaborators include: Lee Breuer, Joe Calarco, Leigh Fondakowski, Robby Henson, Julia Jordan, Moises Kaufman, and Adam Rapp. Mitchell was twice selected for The Sundance Theatre Lab and has been invited to Julliard as a guest artist. She has led Meisner workshops in Athens, Vienna and Geissen, Germany.
Maude Mitchell is currently playing Nora in Mabou Mines Dollhouse, for which she has received a Village Voice Obie in New York City and a Backstage West Garland award in LA. She is co-adapter of the production. Maude originated lead roles in Adam Rapp’s Ursula’s Permanent, Dreams of the Salt Horse (Julliard) and Ghosts in the Cottonwoods for its LA premiere. As a member of the Tectonic Theater Project under Moises Kaufman, she performed the role of Queen Elizabeth in Naomi Iizuka’s Marlowe’s Eye and as dramaturg she was a co-creator of theThe Laramie Project, one of the most-performed plays in America and winner of numerous awards in which she originated the role of deputy Reggie Fluty. Maude performed the role of Country Rose in Mabou Mines’ Ecco Porco. She is at work on her first book Playing Nora with Ibsen specialist Susan Mason, a compilation of interviews of actresses who have played Nora in famous productions of Ibsen’s Dollhouse worldwide.
About Mabou Mines
Please refer to website: http://www.maboumines.org