To SF Bay Area RATs

[The Independent Eye <bards@independenteye.org>]

Friends-

If you'd like to see our new show HITCHHIKING OFF THE MAP - stories about trips and transformations - we need ushers for weekend shows through March 19.  It's very simple, and you can see the show and bring along a friend for free.
Shows are Fri/Sat at 8 pm, Sunday at 7, and you need to be there half an hour beforehand.  It's at The Noh Space, 2840 Mariposa Ave., in the Mission District.
Just email this address and say what night's possible, first-come first-served.
We opened last Friday, had wonderful response.

Cheers-
Conrad

AND

Workshop in Bardic Theatre

WHEN:  
10 am to 2 pm, Saturday, March 18

WHERE:  
Studio in the Mission District - directions when you register.

COST:  
$20-40 sliding scale.

FOR WHOM:  
Actors, writers, singers, dancers, ritualists, teachers - anyone who raises energy, or would like to, through storytelling & role-playing.  Experience required:  having lived.

BY WHOM:  
Conrad Bishop & Elizabeth Fuller, presently performing their duo show HITCHHIKING OFF THE MAP at The Noh Space, have toured nationally for 26 years with their ensemble-created work, playing for theatres (including New York's Performing Garage, CSC Rep, Theater for the New City, & Jean Cocteau Rep, Baltimore Theatre Project, Milwaukee's Theatre X, Seattle's New City Theatre, Dell'Arte Players' Mad River Festival, National Ensemble Theatre Festival, & many others), colleges & arts series, community centers, & gatherings of all kinds.  As writers, their plays have been seen at Mark Taper Forum, Circle Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Denver Center Theatre, & many others, and they are twice recipients of NEA fellowships.  For the past 29 years, they've lived entirely by creating and performing their own work, and have presented countless workshops for actors, writers, pagans, ministers, social workers, teens, convicts - a rich slice of humanity.

WHAT?
Bardic Theatre is a merging of many performance strands:  the immediate presence of the performer in narrative performance art, folk-singing, or stand-up comedy; the fluid physical metaphors of "story theatre" or Playback; the improvisation methods of Boal; and concepts of space, concentration and energy flow derived from ritual magic.  All leavened with a simple joy in exploring human behavior, and commitment to theatre as a celebratory communion.

In the workshop, we begin with exercises in group dynamic, response, and in "being here."  Then we evolve a character from real experience and from "mask" exploration; deepening that character through incongruities & challenges; and finding expression through a range of storytelling options, from realistic to metaphoric to archetypal.

In the process, we deal with finding the character's breath, voice & spine; interacting with and "owning" the space; focusing concentration through physical "keys"; connecting with the audience; and having fun.

HOW TO REGISTER:
Email eye@independenteye.org or call 800-357-6016 for any questions or to reserve a place.  Workshop limited to 15.



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