First Year Theatre Orientation
Wednesday, September 7, 4:30pm - Kelsey Theatre
Theatre Department Orientation
Thursday, September 8, 7:00pm - Kelsey Theatre
Auditions
Auditions are open to all students regardless of major.
Eurydice & bobrauchenbergamerica auditions will be held
Friday, September 11, 3:00 to 6:00pm and Saturday, September 12, 10:00am to 3:00pm in Kelsey Theatre. Callbacks for Eurydice will be on Sunday, September 13, 1:00 to 5:00pm and for bobrauchenbergamerica on Monday, September 14 at 7:00pm.
Eurydice - 1 female, 3 male, 3 either
Please prepare a monologue. Males who play guitar should prepare a piece 1 minute or less. Guitar will be provided. Strong movement skills and creative willingess a plus for all.
bobrauchenbergamerica - please prepare a monologue.
Scripts can be checked out from the theatre office. The bobrauchenbergamerica script can be found online at the author's website www.charlesmee.org
Sign up for an audition time during Week One on the board in the Green Room in the lower level of the theatre building. If you have questions - stop by the theatre office.
2009-2010 Theatre Season
Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Dona Werner Freeman
October 8-11, 2009, Haugen Theatre
bobrauchenbergamerica by Charles Mee, directed by Jeanne Willcoxon
November 13-5 & 19-21, 2009, Kelsey Theatre
Brother Wolf by Preston Lane, directed by Karen Peterson Wilson
February 12-14 & 18-20, 2010, Kelsey Theatre
The Bacchae by Euripides, directed by Scotty Gunderson '10
March 10-14, 2010, Haugen Theatre
Assassins by Sondheim, directed by Gary Gisselman
April 8-11 & 11-17, 2010, Kelsey Theatre
Quade One Act Festival
THEATRE NEWS & NOTES
Dona Werner Freeman is featured in a recently released documentary Twenty Years of Frank Theatre charting the progress and celebrating the endurance of Minneapolis' Frank Theatre. www.franktheatre.org
Todd Edwards was the Scenic and Sound Designer for Miss Firecracker Contest at Starting Gate Theatre and Scenic Designer for The Odd Couple at Commonweal Theatre. Todd taught a Stage Combat Workshop at Shattuck St. Mary's School in Faribault and presented a scenic design workshop at the Biennial Play Festival hosted by Minnesota Association of Community Theatres. He also was the scenic designer for Wiley and the Hairy Man produced by the Intergenerational Theatre.
This summer Dona Werner Freeman, Jeanne Wilcoxon and Todd Edwards will present Ellen McLaughlin's adaptation of Helen at the Minnesota Fringe Festival. This will be an interdisciplinary exploration in both process and performance. To approach Helen in an original way; one that goes beyond normal rehearsal practices to discover how music, movement and media contribute to the staging of this already unique text.
Gary Gisselman recently directed Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance at the Guthrie Theatre.
Karen Peterson Wilson is currently involved with the MN Scholars of Distinction in Theatre program as a portolio evaluator and an interviewer for the April Showcases. The program recognizes excellence in MN high school theater students. The Minnesota Scholars of Distinction awards are given to high school students who have excelled in one the the following areas: Theatre Arts, Science, Math, Applied Geography or Leadership. As the Perpich Center website notes: "The designation Scholars of Distinction in Theatre recognizes high shool students who demonstrate outstanding knowledge, skills and creativity in theater arts. The program grants awards to students who can show extraordinary accomplishment in one or more of the following areas of theater: acting, playwriting, design and technical theater, or directing." For more information click here
Jeanne Wilcoxon presented her paper "Off the Beaten Track: Driveways, Puppetry, and the Art of Making Contact" and chaired a history session on "Classing up Adaptations" at the 30th Annual
Mid- America Theatre Conference in Chicago on March 14, 2009. Her paper was based on her research this past summer at the LaMama Director's Symposium in Umbria and from reasearch in the summer of 2007 with the Open Eye Figure Theatre's Driveway Tour.
She will also be presenting a paper "Bacon, the Masques and the 'Price of Looking'" at the Annual American Theatre in Higher Education Conference in New York City in August.
Brian Bjorklund is an officer of USITT and recently attended the National Conference in Cincinnati. He also presented a workshop session "Lighting Desiging Choices for Visual Interest" at the Biennial Play Festival hosted by Minnesota Association of Community Theatres. Other sabbatical activities have included researching moving lighting instruments and LED fixtures and technology.
