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NAVIGATION

HeARTbeats: NMSA Theater Department Fall 2015

 

 

Monday, October 5 – Workshop with Joe Price of Guthrie Theater

Calling students hoping to audition for a college or conservatory Theater Program! As part of New Mexico School for the Arts’ Guest Artist program, Joe Price, of the prestigious U of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater will be presenting a workshop on auditioning for college and conservatory theater programs!  The workshop will take place in NMSA’s Large Rehearsal Hall from2:15 – 4:45 pm.

 

Thursday, October 8 – Saturday, October 10 (7:00pm) – RUMORS 

Join NMSA’s Theater Department for Neil Simon’s “Rumors” (Directed by Joey Chavez and Debora Potter)! Performances will be held at New Mexico School for the Arts in the Large Rehearsal Hall.

At the large, tastefully appointed Sneden’s Landing townhouse, the Deputy Mayor of New York has just shot himself. Though only a flesh wound, four couples are about to experience a severe attack of Farce. Gathering for their tenth wedding anniversary, the host lies bleeding in the other room and his wife is nowhere in sight. His lawyer, Ken and wife Chris must get “the story” straight before the other guests arrive. As the confusions and mis-communications mount, the evening spins off into classic farcical hilarity. Saturday’s performance will be accompanied by a Dessert Night Theater Fundraiser! More information can be found closer to the date: www.nmschoolforthearts.org   Tickets can be purchased here

www.monmouthplayers.org

 

October 14 – 16 – Guest Artists Kelly Kimball and Dianna Edwards

Kelly Kimball, of Kimball Studio, and Dianna Edwards will be conducting workshops on film acting in mid-October! The master classes will also focus on acting for the camera and how to present oneself in the professional world.

 

 

November 5 & November 6, 7pm, November 7, 2pm – The House of Bernarda Alba

The Theater Department’s second Fall production will be Garcia Lorca’s “The House of Bernarda Alba,” directed by Elizabeth Wiseman. Performances will be held at Warehouse 21.  Lorca described the play in its subtitle as a drama of women in the villages of Spain. The House of Bernarda Alba was Lorca’s last play, completed on 19 June 1936, two months before Lorca’s death during the Spanish Civil War. The play centers on theevents of a house in Andalusia during a period of mourning, in which Bernarda Alba (aged 60) wields total control over her five daughters Angustias (39 years old), Magdalena (30), Amelia (27), Martirio, (24), and Adela (20). The housekeeper (La Poncia) and Bernarda’s elderly mother (María Josefa) also live there. Upon her second husband’s death, domineering matriarch Bernarda Alba imposes a 7-year mourning period on her household in accordance with her family tradition. Bernarda has 5 daughters, aged between 20 and 39, whom she has controlled inexorably and prohibited from any form of relationship. The mourning period further isolates them and tension mounts within the household.

Tickets can be purchased here

 

A huge thank you to ?our Theater Department Sponsors, NM Arts & Hotel Santa Fe for their ongoing support of NMSA’s Guest Artist Program! Thanks to Kelly Kimball and Dianna Edwards.

Stay tuned!

Be sure to keep up to date on our many upcoming performances and events through the fall!  Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, join our listerv by emailing Emily Wolf (ewolf@nmschoolforthearts.org), and check our website for updates!