Thursday, March 4, 6PM-8PM
4209 Spruce Street. Please enter at the 43rd and Locust Street entrance.
This is a practical acting class that invites all participants to experience, through group exercises and working with text, the profound meaning that Greek tragedy held for its original audience and, potentially, for us today. What might it have felt like to be part of the chorus of enslaved Trojan women? How was the audience meant to respond as Helen convinces her husband Menelaus to take her back after her betrayal of him caused ten years of bloodywar? These and other questions will be raised and debated by seeing the text performed by the class. Members of the class will also be able to attend a performance of a contemporary adaptation of "Trojan Women" being staged in April at the University Museum by the Penn Theatre Arts Program. The co-directors of the production, Dr. James Schlatter and Dr. Marcia Ferguson, will teach this acting class. NO EXPERIENCE IN THEATRE REQUIRED. Walk-ons welcome, but please e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] or call 215-823-5288 to pre-register.
