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Pioneer Valley Theatre News June 28, 2018

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 June 28 - July 18, 2018


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THIS WEEK IN THEATRE NEWS:
from Howlround
Seven Lessons Learned from Creating an Immersive Theatrical Whodunit
by Corey Bradberry

From the article: 

In the summer of 2017, I was commissioned to write, direct, and co-produce a ninety-minute, immersive murder-mystery for a four-floor art-deco theatre just outside of Atlanta. I knew an exciting and potentially insurmountable challenge lay ahead. The historic Earl and Rachel Smith Strand Theatre was looking to renovate its annual spring golf fundraiser into a performance event showcasing its gorgeous spaces, including its 500-seat proscenium auditorium and a fourth-floor patio view of the Marietta Square below. Teaming up with longtime friend/collaborator and escape-room designer Jeremy Ledbetter, we presented Murder! at The Strand in April 2018, billing it an “immersive theatrical whodunit.”

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Berkshire on Stage
PERFORMANCES
Goowin's Balloowins 
Thursday June 28 at 11am
Children's Museum at Holyoke

Celebrate the start of summer with madcap balloon artist, Allynn Gooen, at the Children's Museum at Holyoke! In this interactive performance, Gooen has the children become the characters and heroes of the stories, and the twisting of balloons creates the sets, props, and costumes in a fun and unique theatre of balloons. With a special focus on Dr. Seuss stories, this is an event your kids won't want to miss. 

Free with paid admission.
Chester Theatre Company presents BAR MITZVAH BOY by Mark Leiren-Young
6/28 2 & 8 pm, 6/29 8pm, 6/30 2 & 8pm, 7/1 2pm
Town Hall Theatre, 15 Middlefield Rd, Chester, MA

Joey is in a hurry to “become a man,” but he’d prefer not to skip his weekly poker game for Friday night services to do it. While this late-in-life Bar Mitzvah (and successful divorce attorney) is finding his spiritual way, the rabbi guiding him is losing hers. The 2017 Jewish Playwriting Prize winner is being directed by Guy Ben-Aharon, director of 2016’s hit production, Oh God. Berkshire favorite Tara Franklin (Sister Play) returns to play Rabbi Michael, and Boston veteran actor Will LeBow will make his CTC debut as Joey.

Tickets.
Hampshire Shakespeare Company
Twelfth Night--Shakespeare Under The Stars

June 28th through July 1st and July 4th through July 8th at 7:00pm
Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst MA, 01002

Every summer Hampshire Shakespeare Company brings outdoor theater to the Pioneer Valley, as it was done in the Bard's day. This summer we are presenting Twelfth Night from June 27th through July 1st and July 4th through July 8th, and Othello from July 18th through July 22nd and July 25th through July 29th, as well as our Young Company production of Twelfth Night from August 17th through 19th. Our venue is the beautiful lawn of the Massachusetts Renaissance Center, located on the former estate of Winthrop Saltonstall Dakin, with their brick home built in the style of a Renaissance cottage in Shakespeare's Warwickshire nestled in the rolling hills of Amherst as the backdrop.


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SILVERTHORNE THEATER PRESENTS SECOND SEASON SHOW, 
ATHOL FUGARD’S THE ROAD TO MECCA


South African playwright Athol Fugard’s The Road to Mecca, has been called “a penetrating study of the role of the artist in any society.”  Silverthorne Theater continues its exploration of the function of art with this piece that runs June 28-30 at the Hawks and Reed Performing Arts Center in Greenfield.
 
The Play
The play is based on the true story of an aging Afrikaaner woman, Helen Martins, whose evocative sculptures transformed the yard of her house in her isolated community into “a visionary environment”, assaulting the sensibilities of her conservative Dutch Reformed neighbors and causing them to doubt her sanity. Her home became known as “The Owl House” for her frequent depictions of owls in addition to a variety of human figures. The Mecca in the title does not have a religious implication but instead reflects Miss Helen’s fascination with the eastern culture that resulted in her having the statues all facing East.
 
Fugard is best known for his plays dealing with the evils of apartheid, but here he brings together two social & political opposites from white South Africa who each consider themself Miss Helen’s friend and take a strong interest in her welfare according to their own conflicting views about artistic creativity & the challenges of aging. Fugard himself had a home in remote Nieu Bethesda, Miss Helen’s community, and loved the stark beauty of the Karoo desert setting. The play won the 1988 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Foreign Play and was hailed "[T]he author's most personal play to date, an essential Rosetta stone for the entire canon." - The New York Times.
 
The People
Silverthorne’s production is directed by Rebecca Daniels and features veteran actors Jeannine Haas as Miss Helen, Chris Devine as Pastor Marius, and Mo Mosley as Miss Helen’s young friend, Elsa.. A native of South Africa herself, Mosley speaks Afrikaans and will serve as dialect coach for the other actors.  
 
Former NMH instructor Ted Thornton serves as dramaturg, contextualizing for the cast and audience the nature of Afrikaaner culture in the 1970s setting of the play. The Company has engaged professional designer Molly Hall to create the magical environment of Miss Helen’s home that so expresses her unique artistic gift.  
 
Production Details
Tickets for the play may be purchased online through Eventbrite.com or by calling the Silverthorne Box Office at 413-768-7514. Discounted tickets will be available as of June 1 at World Eye Bookstore in Greenfield and Broadside Books in Northampton.  Performances are scheduled for June 21, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30 at 7:30 pm with a matinee on Sunday, June 24, at 2 pm. The fourth floor space at Hawks & Reed at 289 Main St, Greenfield, is air conditioned and fully handicapped accessible.
Chester Theatre Company presents Disgraced
7/5 at 2 & 8pm, 7/6 at 8pm, 7/7 at 2 & 8pm, 7/8 at 2pm, 7/12 at 2 & 8pm, 7/13 at 8pm, 7/14 at 2 & 8pm, 7/15 at 2pm
Town Hall Theatre, 15 Middlefield Rd., Chester, MA

“There’s a result to believing that a book written about life in a specific society fifteen hundred years ago is the word of God: You start wanting to recreate that society.”

A successful corporate attorney confronts the Muslim heritage he has hidden, even from himself. This Pulitzer Prize winning play explores the prickly and often painful territory of American identity.

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Ko Festival of Performance presents THE RADICALIZATION PROCESS
Fri. & Sat. July 6 & 7 at 8pm, Sunday July 8 at 4pm

An original performance by The Hinterlands
Created and Performed by Richard Newman, Liza Bielby, and Dave Sanders.
Live Scoring by Richard Newman.
Scenic design by Shoshanna Utchenik
Archive Creation by Casey Rocheteau
Publication design by Benjamin Gaydos

Layering historical accounts of the radical left in the 1960’s and 70’s with a master class in American method acting, socialist pageantry, and a gleefully obtuse re-production of The Living Theatre’s Antigone, The Radicalization Process stokes the embers of America’s past revolutions to ignite our radical potential. Audiences begin the performance sifting through a basement archive of a forgotten revolutionary, navigating histories true and false, real and imagined, before they make their way into the performance space, a safe-house within a house in 1970s Detroit. Imagery unfolds both mundane and shocking; a live-score is performed on analog synthesizers and everyday objects; L’Internationale is sung; an explosion occurs.

The Radicalization Process asks us to question our assumptions about what drives us to take action, how far is too far, and what role the imagination has in revolution. Also, it’s funny. Sometimes. Other times it’s really dark. But hey, that’s America!

The performance was commissioned by Legion Arts, Power House Productions and Alverno Presents with generous support from the National Performance Network, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the NEA Artworks program.


Tickets available here.
PaintBox Theatre Presents 
Tarzan

at the Williston Theatre in Easthampton
and the Easthampton Band Shell
 
 
PaintBox Theatre—the Pioneer Valley’s theatre of imagination and improvisation for all ages—kicks off our 15th season with Tarzan! World-respected researcher Jane (Linda Tardif), assisted by an audience full of young scientists, has come to the deep, dark jungle in search of the mysterious, elusive Tarzan. Is he really the king of the jungle? Not even close. Tarzan is a friend to all of the wild beast youngsters, teaching the little ones how to swim, climb, and avoid danger. So when Tarzan wants to brag, shout, and fly through the jungle, the older ones just play along. Troy David Mercier swings in as the legendary T-Man. Callum LaFrance will not only play Tarzan’s best buddy, Cheetah the Chimp, but (with the help of the audience, of course) he’ll play a whole jungle of wild beasts, birds, and swimmy things. 
 
 
You can see PaintBox Theatre’s shows at the Williston Theatre in Easthampton (air-conditioned!) and the Easthampton Band Shell. As always, PaintBox Theatre’s performances will feature lots of audience participation, artwork created by dozens of local kids, and plenty of belly laughs.
 
 
Tarzan AT-A-GLANCE
Adapted and directed by Tom McCabe
 
Saturday & Sunday, July 7 and 8: 10:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.
Williston Theatre

Wednesday, July 11: 10:30 a.m. (Rain date Thursday, July 12)
Easthampton Band Shell


Locations: Williston Theatre, Williston Northampton School, 18 Payson Avenue, Easthampton, Easthampton Band Shell, 2 Ferry Street, along the Manhan Rail Trail
 
Description: PaintBox Theatre—the Pioneer Valley’s theatre of imagination and improvisation for all ages—kicks off the summer with Tarzan, the classic story, with a few PaintBox twists.
 
Tickets: Available at the door or at BrownPaperTickets.com
Admission: $10.00 for single tickets. 
Group Discount: 12 people or more: $7.00 per ticket 
Season Tickets: $24
For more info and to make group reservations email paintboxtheatre@gmail.com
Websites: www.paintboxtheatre.org

 
Ko Festival of Performance presents THE OVEN

Fri. & Sat. July 13-14 at 8pm, Sunday July 15 at 1:30 pm

Written and performed by ILAN STAVANS
Directed by MATTHEW GLASSMAN
Lighting by SABRINA HAMILTON

After a chance meeting with a shaman in Colombia, Ilan Stavans, the highly regarded literary scholar, found himself in the Amazon rainforest. He had reluctantly agreed to participate in a religious ceremony that involved taking the hallucinogen ayahuasca. Even though he considered himself a skeptic and a rational intellectual, as someone whose worldview was defined by his education and his heritage as a Mexican Jew, Stavans found that the ritual pushed him to reconsider many of his basic understandings, including his perceptions of indigenous cultures in Latin America, as well as his career as teacher, thinker, and artist.

This one-act play is delivered in the form of a lecture that mimics the author’s startling spiritual journey.

Tickets available here. 

Double Edge Theatre presents We The People
Summer Spectacle 2018


Previews: July 13 - 14
Performances: July 18 - August 19
8pm; Weds - Sun, rain or shine

We The People is a traveling rumination on finding freedom through
creativity, a profound relationship with the land, and a curiosity and
reverence for past generations.

The audience will travel in small groups among the fields, flowers,
waterways, barns, forests, and secret paths of Double Edge’s blooming,
verdant Farm. Birds fly above, transforming to human form as they
gently land; citizens emerge from the past to recount their stories -
a farmer, a scholar, a poet, an immigrant, a suffragist, and more - a
legacy of freedom shared through the vital voices of those who
resisted social and political oppression; enormous creatures appear
from the trees and spring up from the water; a woman’s voice is heard,
her song of longing floating on the wind. History, magic, and music
are woven together to create an allegorical tapestry, the audience
invited to wander among these fantastical, interlaced worlds.

What are the hidden territories of the land, of history, and how do
they speak to us as citizens in the present moment? This summer,
Double Edge attempts to articulate the beauty of the environment,
uncover lost voices, and joyfully inhabit a world of wild imagination.

For tickets: doubleedgetheatre.org/tickets

Hampshire Shakespeare Company
Othello--Shakespeare Under The Stars

July 18th-22nd and 25th-29th, 7:00pm
Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst MA, 01002

Every summer Hampshire Shakespeare Company brings outdoor theater to the Pioneer Valley, as it was done in the Bard's day. This summer we are presenting Twelfth Night from June 27th through July 1st and July 4th through July 8th, and Othello from July 18th through July 22nd and July 25th through July 29th, as well as our Young Company production of Twelfth Night from August 17th through 19th. Our venue is the beautiful lawn of the Massachusetts Renaissance Center, located on the former estate of Winthrop Saltonstall Dakin, with their brick home built in the style of a Renaissance cottage in Shakespeare's Warwickshire nestled in the rolling hills of Amherst as the backdrop.

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AUDITIONS & OPPORTUNITIES
Pioneer Valley Theatre Companies
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Academy of Music Theatre

Arena Civic Theatre

Black Cat Theater

Chester Theatre Company

The Country Players

Eggtooth Productions

Exit 7 Players

Ghost Light Theater

Hampshire Shakespeare Company

Happier Valley Comedy

Ja'Duke Center for the Performing Arts

Ko Theater Works/Ko Festival of Performance

Majestic Theater
New Century Theatre

PaintBox Theatre

Pauline Productions

Real Live Theatre

Red Thread Theater

Serious Play Theatre Ensemble

Silverthorne Theater

Smith College Department of Theatre

St. Michael's Players

Starlight's Youth Theatre, Inc.

TheatreTruck

Turbulent Times Theater

Westfield Theatre Group

Wilbraham United Players
ANNOUNCING THE SERIOUS PLAY ALUMNI REUNION-celebrating 25+yrs of creative ensemble theatre-making as artist associates with A.P.E.@33 Hawley St, and with the  Northampton Community Arts Trust.
Saturday June 30 / 8pm/ downstairs room of Arts Trust Building

IMPORTANT NOTE-

Free to all audience who attend, but limited seating- 80 seats-
Alumni,past collaborating artists and special guests seated at 7:45pm sharp
Unfilled seats open to the public at 8pm.
At the new Arts Trust Building/ 33 Hawley St, Northamtpon/ enter by the side door
There will be a staged reading of Caryl Chuchill's FARAWAY with alumni Dan Morbyrne, Linda Tardif and Robyn Sutton-Fernandez, directed by Sheryl Stoodley

Then we will party with wine and nibbles until midnight!!
Also celebrating the ongoing Serious Play/ Edinburgh Fringe Performance Exchange.
Questions call 413-588-7439!
Real Live Theatre's 5th Birthday Party!

In 2013, a group of Pioneer Valley-based theatre artists got together to put on a production of The Tragedy of Othello. Five years and several productions and programs later, Real Live Theatre is having a 5th Birthday Party and YOU'RE INVITED! Join us for delicious food, a cash bar (don't forget to try our signature RLTinis!), live auction, and performed excerpts from all five years of our artistic work so far.

Saturday July 7th
6PM - 9PM
121 Club at Eastworks
116 Pleasant St
Easthampton, MA 01027

The party will take place at the fabulous 121 Club in Eastworks in Easthampton. Tickets are $20 (that includes the food and entertainment) or $50 (food and entertainment plus two drink tickets). We'll also be fundraising for Five More Years of RLT, with sweet perks for your support. We can't wait to party with you!

This event is sponsored by Eastworks.
Tickets.

Greene Room Productions
EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH DIRECTOR NEEDED

Please reply with resume and cover letter to GreeneRoomProductions@gmail.com

Check us out at www.greeneroomproductions.com

Serious applicants only please

GRP Ed Outreach Mission:

This is a non-profit theater company that is dedicated to producing quality entertainment and hands-on learning opportunities to children and adults. We offer a safe nurturing environment where individuals can come after-school to participate in theatrical programs pushing them to reach for their maximum potential.

Position Summary:

We are looking for a dynamic individual to direct and manage the after-school theater programs. The Ed Director must have an interest and experience working with youth of ages 3.5-adult and expertise in one or more disciplines in theater production, direction, design, improv, and production management. The Ed Director must be a positive role model for participants and volunteers in the program, leading by example, able to create lesson plans, direct youth productions, oversee other afternoon workshop instructors, assuming the responsibility, safety, empowerment, and success of all participants. The Ed Director will manage 3 sessions of after-school theater programs, Oct-Dec, Jan-Mar, and April-June and is paid stipends per project. The programs run at the Eastfield Mall rehearsal space Mon-Thurs 3:30-6:30pm with a Friday “prep” day. Through the addition of the new Ed Director position GRP intends on further developing the Ed Outreach program in increments. There is a great opportunity for growth in this position. The cumulative stipend for all 3 projects is $11,000.00 and would preferably start this fall 2018.

Job Status: This is a freelance job

Preferred Qualification Requirements:

  • Bachelors or Associate Degree or attending college with appropriate training or certification in their area of specialty is preferred

  • Minimum of two years’ experience working with elementary, middle, and/or high school-aged children

  • Exceptional group management, problem-solving and conflict resolution skills

  • Strong verbal and written communication skills

  • Competency in youth development

  • Ability to create interactive activities that are age-appropriate

  • Genuine enthusiasm for developing professional skills through training opportunities and field practice

  • Ability to work as part of a team and with the Executive Director and Board of Directors

  • Ability to communicate and work effectively and respectfully with a broad range of diverse constituents

  • Be available to shadow to get the full scope of GRP expectations and run-of-program

Duties and Responsibilities:
 

  • Ensure the safety and engagement of children in assigned activities

  • Develop weekly project based activity lesson plans in area(s) of specialty

  • Facilitate purposeful activities that foster the development of new skills in children, while reinforcing skills/information previously taught

  • Direct fall, winter, and spring Ed Outreach productions while collaborating with other workshop directors; culminating all groups into one large production each session

  • Lead costume/set/props “Build” nights, instructing children and adult volunteers

  • Organize and lead the local tour by “Kids Tour; Acting Troupe” to local schools 1 day each spring and fall

  • Oversee participant sign-in/out

  • Work with the Executive Director to build the Ed Outreach program

  • In off-season and small class periods assist Executive Director with grant writing, scheduling/organizing of events, planning, recruiting volunteers, and other admin tasks that relate to the play/workshop production process

  • Uphold a high quality of expectation and work/ethic in all who are involved, in all areas

  • Must attend weekly production meetings with the Executive Director

  • Must attend monthly board meetings

Springfield College Theater hiring a Technical Direction/Scenic Designer
Springfield College Fuller Arts Center and scenic shop
Beginning Fall 2018

Provide technical direction and scenic design for Springfield College Theater, supervised and directed by Prof. Martin Shell.  We produce one play each semester.

Fee per show. Applicants with an MA or MFA may also apply to instruct a stage production course as an adjunct. TD does not require the grad degree, but please provide your resume of experience.

Contact mshell@springfieldcollege.edu
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Intro to Drama Therapy
Saturday and Sunday, July 7 and 8, 11-3pm
Northampton Center for the Arts

Drama Therapy is a creative arts therapy method that uses theater practices and theories to achieve therapeutic goals. This workshop will be an introduction to a few of the most used drama therapy theories and practices. It is intended to expose potential future drama therapists, current mental health professionals, theater practitioners, and community members who might want to explore drama therapy as part of their personal journey.

Please email carissadagenais@gmail.com to register by July 1. Fee is sliding scale $45-$65.

Facebook event.
Ko Festival of Performance Workshop:
SOUND AND FURY: An Embodied Approach to Voice, Text & Sound Design for the Theatre


July 9  – 14, 2018
with Richard Newman

Join The Hinterlands co-director Richard Newman for an extended workshop exploring the theatre as a place for radical sonic exploration. Using the voice, everyday objects, instruments, technology, and architecture, participants will take a holistic approach to sound design and performance.

Workshop attendees will use movement, song, and text to break out of habitual vocal patterns in order to use the voice as a tool for sonic exploration, create soundscapes from everyday objects and actions, and explore the possibilities for integrating technology into performer-centric theatrical work.

All classes meet from 10 am - 4 pm on the Amherst College campus.

More information.
Happier Valley Comedy presents The Magic Behind SCRIPTED/UNSCRIPTED Int/Adv Improv Workshop with Scott Braidman & Stephanie Carlson
July 14 at 2:00 PM
Happier Valley Comedy Theater, 1 Mill Valley Rd, Hadley

Int/Adv. Improvisers! Come learn the improv magic behind HVC's most popular show, SCRIPTED/UNSCRIPTED, from two highly experienced performers (and all-around awesome people). In this structure, an actor performs one half of a scene strictly line by line according to a script while the improviser has no idea what scene it is and gets to make it all up on the spot. SCRIPTED/UNSCRIPTED is a wild and wooly ride that can be surprisingly, magically ease-ful for improvisers. Scott Braidman leads you through an exploration of the joy and ease of holding up the improviser's unscripted half of the scene while Stephanie Carlson provides insight on the scripted actor's half of your scenes. And you'll get to improvise while Stephanie performs the scene line by line with you. You get to practice SCRIPTED/UNSCRIPTED with Stephanie Carlson! How cool is that?! Spend the afternoon getting a hands-on feel for the artistry and craft of improvising in this structure. Then you'll get to see Scott and Stephanie perform in SCRIPTED/UNSCRIPTED that night. How cool is that too?!

Prerequisite: Completion of HVC's Zen of Improv 4 or the equivalent from another comedy school.
More information.
Ko Festival of Performance Workshop:
FIRST PERSON: Crafting Your Story for Performance with GERARD STROPNICKY

July 16  – 21, 2018

Come with a story. (Or two. Or three.) Leave with a performance. (Or two. Or three.)

Come without a story, and by the end of Day One, you’ll discover more compelling material than you’d ever think possible. “After all,” says theatre artist Gerard Stropnicky, “people are simply wonderful walking story anthologies.”

Why do some stories – some performances – spark your imagination, set fire to your soul, and leave you transformed, while others just sit there? Is it the content, or the telling? The framing, or the style? Can story be employed to bring laughter, or tears, or understanding, or lasting social change, or all of the above?

Gerard Stropnicky has been working in story for twenty years. This award-winning director has helped create compelling work from interview, gathered story, letters to the editor, even advertisements, recipes and children’s games. He’s written, directed and acted in countless styles; he’s coached diverse thousands of performers, professional and not, young and old, from every walk of life, to bring their stories to vivid life.

We’ll play with monologue, and help each other create scenes. We’ll experiment with styles, colors and tones. We’ll make ourselves vulnerable to our stories, and to one another. The workshop will draw on the work of the late playwright and poet Jo Carson, Stropnicky’s long-time creative partner, as well as other practitioners of Story Work, and will culminate with a showing. This on-your-feet writers and performers story intensive is designed to release the enormous potential energy already alive in you and your story.

A repeat of last summer’s sold out workshop – alums welcome!

All classes meet from 10 am - 4 pm on the Amherst College campus.

More information.

MAKE LEARNING WITH REAL LIVE THEATRE THE HIGHLIGHT OF YOUR SUMMER!

We are psyched to launch five brand new summer workshops for theatre makers of all backgrounds, interests, and levels of experience.

All workshops are led by RLT members and educators and will take place at the North Star Building on Route 116 in Sunderland, MA. Join us for any or all of these fabulous afternoons - discounts are available for those interested in more than one!

Saturday July 21st 1-4 PM: Theater Making with a Conscience with Ellen Morbyrne

Saturday July 28th 1-4 PM: Rooting and Rising: Cultivating Community and Championing the Creative Spirit with Angelica Polk and Julissa Rodriguez

Saturday August 4th 1-4 PM: The Art of the Director with Toby Vera Bercovici

Saturday August 11th 12-4 PM: Choreographing Intimacy with Toby Vera Bercovici and Ellen Morbyrne

Saturday August 25th 1-4 PM: Instigating Hope and Change Through Theater with Ezekiel Baskin and Trenda Loftin

CLICK HERE for more information on each workshop, our educators, and how to register! Feel free to email reallivetheatre@gmail.com with any questions.
Ko Festival of Performance Workshop:
THEATRE AS IF YOUR LIFE DEPENDED ON IT with HELEN STOLTZFUS

July 30  – August 4, 2018

Theatre is about what happens at the edge: the edge of what is known, what is conscious, and what is expected. In this workshop you give yourself permission to take creative risks, delve deeply into the story within you that “must be told” in order to create theatre from your deepest concerns – all in a safe and supportive setting.

We will use voice work, movement, journaling, improvisation and guided fantasy to discover our personal, mythic, and ancestral stories and to shape them into solo or ensemble performances.

All classes meet from 10 am - 4 pm on the Amherst College campus.

More information.
Happier Valley Comedy presents Forget Your Fear & Trust Your Truth: A Personal Growth Workshop for Women with Pam Victor
August 12 at 10:00 AM
Happier Valley Comedy Theater, 1 Mill Valley Rd, Hadley

Ready to disregard the hogwash that’s holding you back?
Would you like to get better at quieting your inner critic, so you can amplify your truth?
Ready to be braver about standing up to authority and authentically speaking your mind?
Would you like to connect mindfully with a group of supportive women who are on (and by) your side? 
Do you need more play in your life?
If you answered yes to any of those questions, then
treat yourself to a day of self-care and empowerment on Sunday, August 12! 

"Forget Your Fear & Trust Your Truth" is a three-hour workshop packed with learning and laughter, community and connection, mindfulness and manifesting, trust and truth.

This workshop provides you with game-changing tools to bolster these skills in a supportive, judgment-free community of women using fun and active improv exercises to help you gain courage to flip off your fear and trust your truth because
YOU ARE ENOUGH.

This workshop is part of the "Females Unleashing Courage, Knowledge, Individuality, and Truth Program" which facilitates powerful learning experiences through easy-to-learn, non-performance improv training exercises. Most improv exercises are completed in a circle or pairs; participants are never forced to be “on stage.” Pam Victor's superpower is making sure all people along the introvert-extrovert spectrum feel successful and have a blast with the THROUGH LAUGHTER workshops. Throughout the workshop, you'll have opportunities for
both private reflection and focused sharing of your experiences and knowledge in a positive, judgment-free community of women who are there to lift each other up. Let's grow stronger together! 

NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED!
THIS WORKSHOP IS OPEN TO ALL WHO IDENTIFY AS WOMEN AGES 18+. 
No improv (or other) experience necessary.
More information.
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