A SUMMER THEATRE WORKSHOP PROGRAM FOR ADULTS

Is There a Director in the House? with Heather Inglis A Show to Call Your Own with Kathleen Weiss From the Page to the Stage with James MacDonald A Playwright’s Confession: How to Keep Your Lies Straight with Marty Chan Lighten Up! Theatrical Lighting Design with Bretta Gerecke Acting Masterclass with David Storch Speakeasy: Stage Dialects with Meredith Scott Behind the Scenes: A Technical Theatre Overview with Jon Price A Word is a Word is a Word: Experimental Writing for Theatre with David Owen Yes, Let’s! An Introduction to Improv with Donovan Workun Discover Your Clown with Sue Morrison The Business of Directing with Bradley Moss

JULY 5-8 & 12-15, 2007 EDMONTON

for more info call 780-422-8162 or 1-888-422-8160 or visit www.theatrealberta.com Theatre Alberta Theatre Alberta is a Provincial Arts Service Organization (PASO) committed to encouraging the growth of theatre in Alberta. We offer a wide range of programs and services to drama students, professional theatre artists, educators, and enthusiasts, as well as to schools, post- secondary institutions, and community and professional theatres. In addition to Dramaworks, our programming includes: 1. Playscript Library, fully circulating with 14,500 titles (scripts are mailed free to members anywhere in the Welcome to Dramaworks 2007 province outside of the Edmonton area) 2. Workshops by Request for ramaworks turns 48 years old this summer. Over the years the community theatres across the program has morphed and moved, but always remained focused on province 3. Artstrek, a residential summer meeting the ever-evolving needs and desires of the provincial theatre theatre program for teens held at Red Deer College each July Dcommunity. Dramaworks started in Olds in 1959 and traveled to Drumheller, 4. PlayWorks Ink, a weekend Fairview, Vermillion, and the University of Alberta before settling comfortably theatre conference held in Calgary each fall featuring into its current home at Edmonton’s Citadel Theatre in 1998. Theatre Alberta workshops, play readings, and panel discussions— is honoured to continue the traditions of networking and adult education co-presented with Alberta Playwrights’ Network opportunities that have been an integral part of the provincial theatre scene for 5. Emerge, an annual audition so many years. event that brings together graduates of Alberta’s post- secondary acting programs This summer’s workshop line-up once again blends novice with pro, onstage arts with backstage arts, tried and true with the province’s Artistic with risk and innovation. We’re always thrilled when so many exceptional members of Alberta’s and Canada’s theatre Directors, Independent community agree to spend their time with us at Dramaworks. It makes the world just a little bit smaller and friendlier for Directors, and Film/TV Industry Professionals two weeks in July, when Edmonton is marked by festival crowds, sunny days, and late-evening thunderstorms. 6. Safe Stages, a Health and Safety awareness and Last summer we introduced a new workshop format that proved highly successful. We are pleased to offer Dramaworks education program in a condensed, vigorous, and schedule-friendly format. This year, we are keeping the registration special—any two 7. Playwriting Programs workshops and a Theatre Alberta membership for the price of two Explorations—and are providing catered lunches contracted through Alberta on each day of the program as part of your registration fee! Playwrights’ Network 8. Theatre Alberta News, our Theatre Alberta works to ensure Dramaworks meets the many and varied personal and professional development needs quarterly newsletter of the whole of the Alberta theatre community. If you have ideas, questions, thoughts—we’d love to hear from you! 9. The Playbill, an annual poster of the theatre season in Whether you’re a first-time participant or have been coming longer than you care to admit, we are looking forward to Alberta, printed each fall seeing you in July. 10. Publications, including Playscript Catalogues, Marie Gynane-Willis, Executive Director the Community Theatre Handbook, the Theatre Facility Keri Ekberg, Program Coordinator Handbook, and Safe Stages 11. Advocacy on local, provincial, and national fronts for theatre and the arts

Theatre Alberta 3rd Floor Percy Page Centre 11759 Groat Road Edmonton AB T5M 3K6 “I discovered I can do more than I Phone: 780-422-8162 Toll Free (within Alberta): 1-888-422-8160 thought. I really surprised myself. Fax: 780-422-2663 Love it, love it, love it!” [email protected] www.theatrealberta.com A Message from the Citadel Theatre Alberta Foundation for the Arts We are very pleased to welcome Dramaworks to the Citadel Theatre again The Alberta Foundation for the Arts supports theatre and art throughout this summer for the 10th year. Our wonderful facility is full of history and Alberta by means of a variety of programs and granting opportunities. Funds heart and it is a pleasure to share it with all of you theatre enthusiasts as are provided to the Foundation from the Alberta Government’s Lottery Fund, you pursue opportunities for training, learning, and professional and personal and the Arts Branch of Alberta Tourism, Parks, Recreation and Culture assists development. We hope that you have a fun, productive, inspiring, and fulfilling in administering the programs. The Alberta Foundation for the Arts provides experience. annual operating funding to Theatre Alberta.

Bob Baker, Artistic Director Penny Ritco, Managing Director

The Citadel Theatre – 9828 101A Avenue, Edmonton

Since its inception in 1965, the Citadel Theatre has grown to become the Gallery—an adaptable studio theatre; Zeidler Hall—a fully functioning cinema; largest regional theatre in Canada. The Citadel Theatre complex is situated and the Tucker Amphitheatre set in the lush Lee Pavilion. The complex also in the heart of Edmonton’s Arts District on Sir Winston Churchill Square and houses production facilities, workshops, a restaurant, meeting spaces, contains five performance spaces: the Shoctor Theatre—an impressive classrooms, and an indoor garden complete with a 40-foot waterfall. proscenium stage; the Maclab Theatre—a thrust stage; the Rice Theatre and

P.  Drama works 2007 PLEASE SEE PAGES 4, 5, AND 6 FOR INSTRUCTOR BIOGRAPHIES. Weekend I Workshops ALL PRICES INCLUDE CATERED LUNCHES AND GST. Intensives: July 5-8, 2007 Thursday 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm / Friday, Saturday, and Sunday 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Is There a Director in the House? A Show to Call Your Own Instructor: Heather Inglis Instructor: Kathleen Weiss

Maybe it’s you! Being the “director” is more than a title—it’s a way of life. This The one-person show is a mainstay of the Canadian theatre landscape. introductory workshop is a comprehensive look at the craft of directing for Actors are curious and opinionated creators and storytellers. If you have a beginners or those with limited experience. All you need is a positive attitude solo show rumbling around in the back corner of your brain, this workshop to explore how to take a play from the page to the stage. Participants will will help move it into the frontal lobe, the body, and then onto the stage. Using have a chance to explore the language of directing and a variety of rehearsal improvisation and physicality as a key approach, we will explore a variety techniques in a fun and encouraging environment. Learn to transform your of techniques for generating source material, developing repeatable text vision into action by communicating effectively. Behind every great production, and imagery, building characters based on obsessions, writing on your feet, there’s a great director—and it can be you! and shaping the work for performance. This workshop will offer concrete Workshop Fee: $222.00 Early Bird $249.00 After June 1 theatrical tools for creating your own original performance in a fun, creative, Maximum 16 Participants and challenging environment. Workshop Fee: $222.00 Early Bird $249.00 After June 1 Maximum 16 Participants

Explorations: July 6-8, 2007 Friday 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm / Saturday and Sunday 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

From the Page to the Stage Lighten Up! Theatrical Lighting Design Instructor: James MacDonald Instructor: Bretta Gerecke

Ever wonder what the pros do to take it from the page to the stage? Dying Last summer at Dramaworks we painted with paint, this year we’re painting to tread the boards, but have no idea where or how to begin? This class will with light! This introductory lighting design workshop will explore both the introduce participants to the basics of acting, including approaching a script, art and science of theatrical lighting. Through demonstrations, examples, building a character, warm-up techniques, appropriate use of your voice, and and hands-on work, we will examine how to use colour, rhythm, shadow, making creative choices on stage. Through games, improvisation, and text texture, balance, movement, and special effects to highlight and compliment work, we will touch on all the fundamentals of creating a performance. Join your production’s set/costumes, actors, and story. Instructor Bretta Gerecke Citadel Theatre Associate Artistic Director James MacDonald in demystifying will work through a range of experiences from fringe to touring shows, and inhabiting the world of the actor. No experience required—just a great plays to spectacle musicals, as well as take time to discuss participants’ spirit of adventure (and a good sense of humour)! specific lighting questions and needs. You’ll develop a lighting designer’s Workshop Fee: $180.00 Early Bird $199.00 After June 1 vocabulary, learn helpful hints and shortcuts, and discover how to maximize Maximum 16 Participants the equipment you have on hand. Don’t be left in the dark! Workshop Fee: $180.00 Early Bird $199.00 After June 1 A Playwright’s Confession: How to Keep Your Lies Straight Maximum 14 Participants *Additional materials fee may apply Instructor: Marty Chan Acting Masterclass Good plays are whoppers of lies that skirt the fine line between near truths Instructor: David Storch and outrageous fiction. The playwright’s job is to make sure their scripts never slip up or get tangled in their own web of deception. In this introductory Great actors rely on solid technique—technique that guides them to a playwriting workshop, inveterate liar and playwright Marty Chan will help place where instinct rules. Celebrated Canadian actor David Storch joins budding playwrights spin stories and learn how to keep their lies straight. Dramaworks to lead an acting masterclass for serious-minded actors Through writing exercises and demonstrations, he’ll reveal the secrets any looking to refine skills and good habits and identify and shed bad ones. good liar/playwright should have in their back pocket. Check the truth at the Using Shakespeare’s plays and poems as material—because no one gives door and be prepared to lie your face off. the actor more help than Shakespeare—David will share tricks, tips, and Workshop Fee: $180.00 Early Bird $199.00 After June 1 techniques that can be as easily applied to any and every text you encounter. Maximum 14 Participants The work will address both the more tangible challenges of breath support, phrasing, diction, rhetoric, emphasis, etc., as well as the more imaginative and intuitive challenges of emotional and immediate connection to the text and to the scene partner. Workshop Fee: $180.00 Early Bird $199.00 After June 1 Maximum 16 Participants

P.  Drama works 2007 PLEASE SEE PAGES 4, 5, AND 6 FOR INSTRUCTOR BIOGRAPHIES. Weekend II Workshops ALL PRICES INCLUDE CATERED LUNCHES AND GST. Intensives: July 12-15, 2007 Thursday 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm / Friday, Saturday, and Sunday 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Speakeasy: Stage Dialects Behind the Scenes: A Technical Theatre Overview Instructor: Meredith Scott Instructor: Jon Price

Looking to tackle a role in dialect, or at least be able to audition for one Everything you’ve ever wanted and needed to know about technical without reservation? Come and explore the world of dialects and accents theatre, including how not to lose your shirt or your thumb. This introductory with Meredith Scott and you’ll be off to a great start! This workshop will workshop will combine technical theatre history, theory, and practice to examine both learning and working with a dialect on stage. We’ll start with provide a thorough overview of the work done behind the scenes. You’ll learn the basics and build a shared vocabulary—vowel and consonant sounds, the process of scenic design from a practical construction perspective, the resonance, placement, the vocal tract, and intonation—and then put our new equipment and tools needed to help you get the job done, how to build flats, skills to work, applying them to specific dialects and text/monologues. We’ll how to recycle set pieces, how theatrical rigging systems work, and more. also explore and create strategies for researching roles in dialect. Suitable for Through demonstrations and supervised hands-on work you’ll discover the community theatre practitioners, emerging professionals, and professionals. tricks of the trade, plus gain important insider information about how and Workshop Fee: $222.00 Early Bird $249.00 After June 1 where to find help and resources. Maximum 16 Participants Workshop Fee: $222.00 Early Bird $249.00 After June 1 Maximum 14 Participants *Additional materials fee may apply

Explorations: July 13-15, 2007 Friday 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm / Saturday and Sunday 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

A Word is a Word is a Word: Discover Your Clown Experimental Writing for Theatre Instructor: Sue Morrison Instructor: David Owen Celebrate the human, the divine, and the animal in all of us in Sue Morrison’s Looking for an escape from linear dialogue? Want to spice up those dream Discover Your Clown—an introduction to clown based in Native American sequences and hallucination scenes? Want to tackle the great questions concepts and traditions. This work takes participants on a journey to discover, without being bogged down by the minutiae of realistic representation? invent, and dream a personal mythology that leads to their own unique clown. This is a practical workshop to understand and use several approaches to This is clown that speaks to today—an archetype that reveals the essence of composing non-linear and stylized writing for theatre. Numerous techniques the performer, as well as the possibility of touching each other in a moment of such as automatic writing, three-line scenes, cut-ups, rhythm and repetition, laughter. Experience clown in its purest form—not a collection of gags but a writing in a perpetual present, and Pinter-esque editing will be explored. celebration of spirit. This workshop is suitable for anyone looking to challenge Come ready to write, laugh, and explore. themselves as a performer and a person. Workshop Fee: $180.00 Early Bird $199.00 After June 1 Workshop Fee: $180.00 Early Bird $199.00 After June 1 Maximum 14 Participants Maximum 14 Participants

Yes, Let’s! An Introduction to Improv The Business of Directing Instructor: Donovan Workun Instructor: Bradley Moss

Join three-time world improv champion Donovan Workun for his unique and Artistic Directors have a lot of big questions to ask and answer before they celebrated “Intro to Improv” workshop, developed specifically for adults, get into the rehearsal hall. How do you find the right play at the right time that will walk you from beginner to advanced in just two and a half days. for your audience? Who is your audience anyway, and how do you build This improvisational skills building workshop is a must for both actors and and challenge them? How do you put together your “most exciting season educators looking to immerse themselves completely in the moment and ever” and still be on budget? This is a workshop for directors and educators reach a new level of spontaneity and surprise in their work. Fun and easy with some directing experience who are looking to rejuvenate themselves, improv games will show you how to keep a scene positive, build interesting their artists/students, and their audiences. We will explore the role of the and complete characters, and tell a story with a beginning, middle, and end. director/teacher in choosing appropriate plays, developing strong audience Donovan’s participative approach to teaching is entertaining, engaging, and relationships, and providing leadership to the artists/students around you, a great way to learn on your feet with a master. as well as touch on preparing to direct the productions once chosen. Learn how to connect the art of the direction with the business of direction. Workshop Fee: $180.00 Early Bird $199.00 After June 1 Come prepared with examples of past seasons/productions and ideas for Maximum 16 Participants 2007/2008. Workshop Fee: $180.00 Early Bird $199.00 After June 1 Maximum 16 Participants

P.  Drama works 2007 Dramaworks 2007 Instructors

Marty Chan James MacDonald teaches A Playwright’s Confession: How to Keep Your Lies Straight teaches From the Page to the Stage

Playwright Marty Chan is best known for his play James is an award-winning actor and director based Mom, Dad, I’m Living with a White Girl, which ran in Edmonton. He is the Associate Artistic Director at Off Broadway in 2004. The play has been produced Edmonton’s Citadel Theatre, where he has directed across Canada, won a Sterling Award for Best New Equus, I Am My Own Wife, and Stones in his Pockets. Work, and received the ACTS Award from Harvard Elsewhere, his directing credits include Much Ado University. He wrote the Fringe hits The Bone House, about Nothing (CanStage), The Myth of Summer Polaroids of Don, and Maggie’s Last Dance. Marty (Alberta Theatre Projects), and The Old Ladies (Shaw wrote and performed weekly humour commentaries on CBC Radio. He was Festival). He is the founding Artistic Director of the River City Shakespeare story editor for the hit TV series Incredible Story Studio. His kids’ book, The Festival, where he has directed seven productions including The Taming Mystery of the Frozen Brains, won the 2005 City of Edmonton Book Prize. of the Shrew, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and King Lear. James regularly The sequel, The Mystery of the Graffiti Ghoul, was nominated for the Golden teaches acting at the University of Alberta, and was previously a Dramaworks Eagle Children’s Choice Award. He’s a regular contributor to the Edmonton instructor in 2005. James has worked as an actor for theatres across the Journal. Currently, he’s working on a new play for the 2007 Edmonton Fringe country. He is a two-time Sterling Award recipient, for performances in Festival. www.martychan.com Einstein’s Gift and Of Mice and Men.

Bretta Gerecke Sue Morrison teaches Lighten Up! Theatrical Lighting Design teaches Discover Your Clown

Bretta Gerecke grew up in Winnipeg and has resided Sue Morrison is a director, teacher, clown, and creator in Edmonton for the past 13 years. She holds a of some of the hottest new clown theatre productions. Bachelor of Interior Design from the University of Since 1993 Sue has been the Artistic Director of the Manitoba and a Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Design Theatre Resource Centre in Toronto, where she began from the University of Alberta. Bretta is the resident as Richard Pochinko’s apprentice in 1980. She has designer at Catalyst Theatre, where she has designed also performed and taught with The Second City since world premieres that have toured internationally. 1987. Sue is increasingly sought after as a teacher Bretta also works regularly at the Citadel Theatre, CanStage, Workshop both internationally and in Canada. She has recently given workshops in West Theatre, Edmonton Opera, the River City Shakespeare Festival, Theatre Argentina, Brazil, UK, and Sweden, and was a guest speaker and teacher at Calgary, and the Globe Theatre. She is the recipient of ten Elizabeth Sterling the New York Clown Theatre Festival. As a director and creator, her work draws Haynes Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Set and Lighting Design and together the diverse elements of Native American and European clowning to the Enbridge Award for Best Emerging Artist, and was short-listed in 2006 for create unique and groundbreaking performance spectacles, which have been the prestigious Siminovitch Prize. Bretta also designed a summer home on produced in theatres around the world for the past 20 years. Her students are Devil’s Lake, Alberta, and works as an archaeological illustrator. currently featured in Cirque du Soleil, Slava’s Snow Show, Blue Man Group, Second City, and on other international stages.

Heather Inglis teaches Is There a Director in the House?

Heather Inglis is a director, dramaturge, and theatre instructor with credits across the country. Recent directorial credits include The Enchantment, Get Away, and The Mercy Seat, all with her own company Theatre Yes. Over the years Heather’s work has included contracts at the Shaw Festival, the Citadel Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Alberta Theatre Projects, Azimuth Theatre, Stage Polaris, Theatre Junction, the Unconscious Collective, Alberta Playwright’s Network, and NUOVA. Heather is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada.

P.  Drama works 2007 Dramaworks 2007 Instructors

Bradley Moss Meredith Scott teaches The Business of Directing teaches Speakeasy: Stage Dialects

Bradley Moss is the Artistic Director of Theatre Meredith Scott is a voice, dialect, and acting coach, Network and the founder and producer of Nextfest— and a graduate of the Central School of Speech a multi-disciplinary emerging artist festival. Bradley and Drama, the University of Toronto, and Sheridan has worked as an actor and director across Canada. College. Over the past nine years she has worked Bradley’s training includes a MFA in directing from the across Canada with companies such as Soulpepper University of Alberta and a BA in Drama & Business Theatre Company, the Grand Theatre, and the Atlantic from Bishop’s University. Bradley’s most recent Theatre Festival. In Edmonton, she has taught for the directing credits include the Sterling Award-winning new play Summer of My University of Alberta and Theatre Alberta’s Workshops by Request program, Amazing Luck, Never Swim Alone, True West, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, The and has coached dialects for several shows at the Citadel Theatre including Leisure Society, Hosanna, A Skull in Connemara, and the Sterling Award- A Christmas Carol, West Side Story, and I Am My Own Wife. She is also winning musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Director of the Foote Theatre School at the Citadel, and thrilled to be back at Dramaworks for a second time.

David Owen teaches A Word is a Word is a Word: Experimental Writing for Theatre

David Owen is a PhD candidate in Performance Studies at the University of Calgary and a playwright, director, actor, and sound-designer. He is an associate member of the Playwright’s Guild of Canada (PGC) and a member of Alberta Playwright’s Network (APN). He is best known for his plays Excess Unwanted Growth and Hang-Gliding Over The Abyss, and his contributions to the Nextfest shorts. Some of the shows he has directed are Doctor Faustus for the University of Lethbridge, The Importance of Being Ernest and Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) at Red Deer College, The Birthday Party and Doctor Faustus at Walterdale Playhouse and the Canadian premiere of My Head Was A Sledgehammer for his own company, Manual Transmission Theatre.

Jon Price teaches Behind the Scenes: A Technical Theatre Overview

Jon Price is an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Technical Theatre Production Program at the University of Alberta. He has been head of Set Construction for the Citadel Theatre (Edmonton), Stage West (Edmonton/Calgary and Winnipeg), Sunshine Theatre (Kelowna), and Carousel Theatre (St. Catharines). He has also worked in television and on numerous feature films in Canada, the United States, and Europe. He is a member of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees , Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, its Territories and Canada (I.A.T.S.E.), and the Woodworkers’ Guild of Canada. Jon is a graduate of Niagara College Technical Theatre Program and apprenticed through the Shaw and Stratford Festivals.

“Intensive (short time) = big knowledge payback.”

P.  Drama works 2007 Dramaworks 2007 Instructors

David Storch teaches Acting Masterclass

David Storch has been working nationally as an actor and director for 20 years. He teaches at the National Theatre School in Montreal and at George Brown College in Toronto. He grew up in Edmonton, where he was drawn out of his shell and into a life in the theatre by Ken Agrell-Smith at Harry Ainlay High School. He studied at the University of Alberta, and is a graduate of the National Theatre School. Edmonton audiences may remember his Citadel Theatre productions of The Goat, or Who is Sylvia, Blue/Orange, Einstein’s Gift, and The Beauty Queen of Leenane. At the same theatre, he has performed in Tartuffe, Wit, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Hamlet, The Servant of Two Masters, Measure for Measure, and Democracy. David has worked at almost every major theatre from Victoria to Halifax, and is adamant that nothing is better than Shakespeare. Kathleen Weiss teaches A Show to Call Your Own “Wide range of participants—in Kathleen Weiss is an Assistant Professor in the terms of age, experience, parts of the Department of Drama at the University of Alberta, where she teaches Directing, Acting, and Play province. Feels like a community for Creation, and coordinates the MFA Directing Program. Kathleen has an extensive background as a director, the weekend.” artistic director, dramaturge, and playwright. She is a former Artistic Director of Vancouver’s Women In View Festival and Tamahnous Theatre, where she is remembered for her innovative stagings of Shakespeare, notably The Haunted House Hamlet and Mr. and Mrs. Macbeth. Kathleen has taught acting for the Vancouver Playhouse School, Studio 58, Simon Fraser University, and the University of British Columbia. Kathleen spent this past summer in London, England, where she directed a new play, Wanted, about women pirates for Theatre Textere.

Donovan Workun teaches Yes, Let’s! An Introduction to Improv

In 1990 Donovan formed The Atomic Improv Co., North America’s first two-man improv show, which quickly gained popularity and was named the number one comedy and variety act in Canada in 1992 and 1993. Atomic Improv won the prestigious “Just For Laughs” Improv Festival in 1994 and World Improv Championship in Los Angeles in 1996, where they competed for the third time against the likes of Brad Sherwood and Wayne Brady from ABC’s Whose Line Is It Anyway? Donovan has performed hundreds of shows and taught improv workshops for some of Canada’s largest corporations in the past 10 years, and has had the honour of performing alongside such Canadian comedy greats as Joe Flaherty, Dave Thomas, Colin Mocherie, and Mike Myers. www.atomicimprov.com “Dramaworks is my opportunity to experience creativity and fill up the empty vessel after 10 months of giving to others. Nirvana for me.”

P.  Drama works 2007 Planning Your Dramaworks Experience

How to Choose the Workshop that’s Right for You Travel and Accommodations

Dramaworks workshops are offered at a variety of levels to reflect the variety Dramaworks participants are responsible for their own travel and of needs of Alberta’s theatre community. Much of the fun and learning at accommodation arrangements. Dramaworks comes from meeting and working with people who are very different from yourself and the artists you usually work with. We recommend using public transportation to get to and from the Citadel Theatre. The theatre is located on several major bus routes as well as on the A phone call to Theatre Alberta can help you plan your Dramaworks LRT line. There are many parkades and parking lots in the theatre’s immediate experience so that you’ll be both comfortable and challenged in your vicinity, however, these can be costly. workshop(s). If you’re unsure of whether or not a workshop is right for you, we’re always happy to advise. We recommend that you book accommodations well in advance of the program. The following options are convenient and cost-effective: Some workshops will require advance preparation. We will strive to provide you with all materials and information you will need to properly prepare for The Coast Edmonton House your workshops with plenty of time. We ask that all Dramaworks participants 10205 – 100 Avenue ensure they arrive prepared for their courses out of respect for their fellow Edmonton AB T5J 4B5 classmates and instructors. Phone: 780-420-4000 Toll Free: 1-800-663-1144 Registration Information Email: [email protected] Website: www.coasthotels.com You can register for Dramaworks by mail, online (www.theatrealberta.com), over the phone, by fax, or in person at the Theatre Alberta office. Dramaworks The Coast Edmonton House is the city’s premier full service all-suite hotel and is within walking distance of the Citadel Theatre. Dramaworks registration by mail and online begins April 2, 2007. Phone, fax, and in person participants are offered a preferred rate of $76 per night for a Comfort one registrations will be accepted starting April 16, 2007. bedroom suite and $93 per night for a Superior one bedroom suite along with complimentary parking. All rooms are equipped with a kitchenette. Call Full payment is required with registration. Catered lunches and GST are the toll free reservation line and quote Theatre Alberta. included in all listed workshop prices. We accept VISA, MasterCard, and cheques (made payable to Theatre Alberta), as well as cash and Interac St. Joseph’s College Residence Direct Payment (in person only). Please do not fax credit card numbers; if you wish to fax your registration form, please phone in your credit card University of Alberta Campus number to ensure security. 11325 – 89 Avenue Edmonton AB T6G 2J5 Theatre Alberta office hours are Monday through Friday, 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. Phone: 780-492-7681 extension 248 Email: [email protected] Please register early to avoid disappointment. Workshops without adequate Website: www.ualberta.ca/~stjoseph registration will be cancelled on June 15, 2007, so please register well in advance. Register on or before June 1, 2007 and receive an Early Bird discount! St. Joseph’s College offers single occupancy dormitory style rooms for $25 per night (continental breakfast, linens, and towels are included in this Important: All Dramaworks participants must be current members of Theatre price). Lunch and dinner options in their cafeteria can also be arranged. Alberta through to the final day of the program. If you are not a member, you Located on the LRT line with direct service to the Citadel Theatre. must include your membership fee with your registration. However, participants who register in two Dramaworks workshops will receive a complimentary one- MacEwan Residence year Theatre Alberta membership. Current Group Members of Theatre Alberta Grant MacEwan College may send two individuals to Dramaworks on their membership, provided 11050 –104 Avenue permission is given by the group’s primary contact. Edmonton AB T5K 2Y9 Phone: 780-633-8000 All participants will receive confirmation of registration, as well as a detailed Website: www.macewan.ca/residence workshop and program information package, before the program begins. The MacEwan Residence is a convenient, safe, and economical home away Cancellation and Refund Policy from home. The residence is within walking distance of the Citadel Theatre, and consists of one and two bedroom suites, each with a private bathroom, double bed/s, and kitchenette. MacEwan Residence is pleased to offer Participants who wish to withdraw from their workshop(s) should inform Dramaworks participants the following rates: Bachelor Suite: $65 per night; Theatre Alberta as soon as possible, as many workshops will have waiting lists. 2 Bedroom Suite: $85 per night. All withdrawal and refund requests must be made in writing to the Dramaworks Registrar. Refunds are subject to a $35 administration fee. No refunds will be When making a reservation, please mention you are with Dramaworks. issued after June 18, 2007. Registrations are non-transferable. For additional information please contact:

Theatre Alberta will cancel workshops with insufficient registration on June Heather von Bloedau 15, 2007. Participants registered in cancelled workshops will receive a full Phone: 780-633-3623 refund, a transfer, or a credit. Email: [email protected]

P.  Drama works 2007 Dramaworks - It’s Not Just Workshops!

Dramaworks participants can take advantage of several perks and extracurricular activities we have planned for Dramaworks 2007—group warm-ups each morning, catered lunches and LunchLines, Intermissions (trips to Edmonton theatre productions at economical group rates), and more! Please see both the Timetable below and the Registration Form for more information and to sign up.

Dramaworks 2007 Timetable Weekend I Weekend II Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, July 5 July 6 July 7 July 8 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 9:30 Group Warm-Up Group Warm-Up Group Warm-Up Group Warm-Up Group Warm-Up Group Warm-Up 10:00 Weekend I Weekend I Weekend I Weekend II Weekend II Weekend II 10:30 Intensives Intensives and Intensives and Intensives Intensives and Intensives and Explorations Explorations Explorations Explorations 11:00

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12:30 1:00 Lunch Break LunchLine LunchLine Lunch Break LunchLine LunchLine (lunch provided) (lunch provided) (lunch provided) (lunch provided) Theatre Alberta (lunch provided) AGM 1:30 11 – 9 JULY WORKSHOPS NO (lunch provided)

2:00 Weekend I Weekend I Weekend I Weekend II Weekend II Weekend II 2:30 Intensives Intensives and Intensives and Intensives Intensives and Intensives and Explorations Explorations Explorations Explorations 3:00

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4:00 Weekend I Weekend II 4:30 Closing Closing 5:00 Dinner Break Dinner Break Dinner Break Dinner Break 5:30 Registration Registration Registration Registration 6:00 for Weekend I for Weekend I for Weekend II for Weekend II Intensives Explorations Intensives Explorations 6:30 Weekend I Weekend I Weekend II Weekend II 7:00 Intensives Explorations Intensives Explorations

7:30 8:00 Intermission* Intermission* 8:30 at Hawrelak Park at the Varscona for the River City Theatre for 9:00 Shakespeare Teatro La 9:30 Festival Quindicina’s 10:00 The Exquisite Hour 10:30

*Please Note: To attend either of the Intermissions you must indicate your attendance on the Dramaworks 2007 Registration Form and include payment. Ticket prices listed for the Intermissions are special Dramaworks participant group rates. All participants must make their own travel arrangements for these events.

P. 10 Drama works 2007 ✂ Dramaworks 2007 Registration Form

Registration and membership information is collected by Theatre Alberta for The following information is collected to help your instructor(s) plan your communication and programming purposes only. This information is considered workshop(s). Please take the time to fill out the following sections in full. confidential and is not released to third parties without consent.

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P. 11 Drama works 2007 PRICE (GST and Lunches Included) SUBTOTALS Dramaworks 2007 Registration Form *Early Bird Deadline ✂ June 1, 2007* Dramaworks $360 Early Bird Special Any two workshops plus your Theatre Alberta membership! Please indicate workshop choices below. Registration Special $398 Regular $

Intensives: July 5-8 $222 Early Bird Is There a Director in the House? with Heather Inglis $249 Regular $222 Early Bird A Show to Call Your Own with Kathleen Weiss $249 Regular Explorations: July 6-8 $180 Early Bird From the Page to the Stage with James MacDonald WEEKEND I $199 Regular WEEKEND I A Playwright’s Confession: How to Keep Your Lies Straight $180 Early Bird with Marty Chan $199 Regular $180 Early Bird Lighten Up! Theatrical Lighting Design* with Bretta Gerecke $199 Regular $180 Early Bird Acting Masterclass with David Storch $ $199 Regular

Intensives: July 12-15 $222 Early Bird Speakeasy: Stage Dialects with Meredith Scott $249 Regular $222 Early Bird Behind the Scenes: A Technical Theatre Overview* with Jon Price $249 Regular

Explorations: July 13-15 A Word is a Word is a Word: Experimental Writing for Theatre $180 Early Bird WEEKEND II ✂ with David Owen $199 Regular WEEKEND II $180 Early Bird Yes, Let’s! An Introduction to Improv with Donovan Workun $199 Regular $180 Early Bird Discover Your Clown with Sue Morrison $199 Regular $180 Early Bird The Business of Directing with Bradley Moss $ $199 Regular

Saturday, July 7 River City Shakespeare Festival performance $13 INTERMISSIONS INTERMISSIONS Teatro La Quindicina’s production of Stewart Lemoine’s $17 Saturday, July 14 The Exquisite Hour $

All Dramaworks participants must be members of Theatre Alberta through to the final day of Dramaworks 2007. $30 Regular MEMBERSHIP MEMBERSHIP If you are not a member and have registered for one workshop only, please include your membership fee with your Dramaworks registration. $15 Student $

* Workshops marked with an * may have an additional materials fee ranging from $10 to $30. Theatre Alberta will contact participants by letter or email regarding these fees, which will be due at workshop start. FINAL TOTAL $

Please send this completed application to: Method of Payment Theatre Alberta – Dramaworks 2007 Full payment must be included for application to be processed. 3rd Floor Percy Page Centre Payment by: Cash (in person only) Interac Direct Payment (in person only) 11759 Groat Road Cheque (made payable to Theatre Alberta) Edmonton AB T5M 3K6 VISA MasterCard Phone: 780-422-8162 Toll Free (within Alberta): 1-888-422-8160 Credit Card Number Expiration Date Fax: 780-422-2663 [email protected] www.theatrealberta.com Name of Cardholder Signature of Cardholder ✂

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