Summer Theatre Intensive

Summer Theatre Intensive - Monday June 6, 2016 @ 9AM
(June 6-23, Mon thru Thurs, 9:00am – 3:00pm)
Paradise Valley Community College Phoenix, AZ

Summer Theatre Intensive - Enjoy classes in the morning and rehearsal in the afternoon. Rotating topics may include: character development, improvisation, play-writing, prop making, stage combat, and many others. The rehearsal process will include: auditioning, blocking, learning lines, creating characters, and working/running the entire show. Each student is guaranteed a role in the production. Camp is open to students entering 6th through 9th grade in the Fall of 2016. The Studio Theatre is located in Building M-East.

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Student One Act Plays: A Night of Comedy and Tragedy

Each Fall semester in our Studio Theatre we have opportunities for our students to direct one act plays for first time directors, and full length plays for second-time directors. There is always a wonderful variety and even some original works written by the directors. 


Student One Act Plays | A Night of Comedy and Tragedy

Show dates: Nov. 13, 14, 20, 21 at 7:30pm and 15 & 22 at 2:00pm.

All Tickets $5 | Studio Theater in Building M-East

1) Suicide Notes by Nicole Thompson is a story about a student, Cameron, who finds his name has been written into people's suicide notes blaming him for their deaths. This is also a story about how Cameron and his friends try to understand and cope with the situation. 

2) The Romancers by Edmond Rostandt. A Boy and a Girl... two disapproving Parents... a Wall and a Bandit. A Comedy Romance Fantastique. Directed by Ric Alpers. 

3) Shattered by Kristin Black is a one act play about the difficulties of facing trauma head on. It is a counseling session held between a counselor named Stephanie and a college student named Sara.

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PVCC Theatre Auditions: The Outlaw Robin Hood

The Outlaw Robin Hood is an action-filled play about law and order in Medieval England with some of our favorite characters. In this version of the well-known tale of Robin hood heroic deeds are seen anew in Robin bedeviled with a dilemma; obey the law and see people suffer the worst evils of the feudal system or break the law and see injury and death to his people. The Outlaw Robin Hood is a modern play of ageless appeal, recommended for ages nine and older.

Roles Available: 20

Outlaws: Robin Hood, Little John, Will Scarlet, Will Stutely, David of Doncaster

Townspeople: Midge the Miller, Alice his wife, Adam his son, Arthur-A-Bland the Tanner, Grace his wife, Eadon the Innkeeper, Eleanor his daughter, Polly his other daughter

Court: Bishop of Herefore, Sheriff of Nottingham, Captain of Guards, Two Guards, The King, Sir Guy of Gisborne

Audition Date: August 26-27, 2015; 6-9pm

Callbacks: August 28th 2015; 6-9pm (be prepared to cold read and move)

Location: Studio Theater/M-East
18410 N. 32nd St
Phoenix AZ 85032

Casting protocol: Call 602-787-6595 to sign up for a 5 minute audition time slot

Headshot and resume: preferred but not required

Preparation: Be prepared to cold read

Rehearsals begin: The week of August 31st (evenings - Mondays through Fridays)

Performance dates: October 9th, 10th, 16th and 17th at 7:30pm
October 9th and 15th at 11:00am
October 11th and 18th at 2:00pm

All performers cast in the production are required to register for THP201AA Theatre Production Class (1 credit)

For more information contact (602) 787-6596. Directed by Craig Kosnik. Fight Director: Andrea Robertson. 

 

SPAMALOT! (musical) Based on the classic comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail - June 19th-28th

Monty Python is coming to Paradise Valley Community College! SPAMALOT retells the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, and features a bevy of beautiful show girls, not to mention cows, killer rabbits, and French people. Did we mention the bevy of beautiful show girls? The 2005 Broadway production won three Tony Awards, including "Best Musical," and received 14 Tony Award nominations.

June 19th, 20th, 26th, 27th @ 7:30pm. June 21st and 28th @ 2:00pm.
$15 adults; $12 seniors/staff; $10 students/military; $8 children
*4 additional ticket fee at the door 1hour prior to performance.

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Animal Tails: A Play Created by THP151 - Theater for Youth

Written by Craig Kosnik, PhD, instructor of Theater for Youth

This past spring twelve brave students and one instructor set out on a journey to create and adapt a brand new play for k-2 audiences - and all in one semester! Animal Tails was adapted from the folk tales of four different Native American cultures: Rainbow Crow (Lenni Lenape), How Rabbit Lost His Tail (Wabanaki), Coyote Stories (Cheyenne), and Rabbit Calls a Truce (Wabanaki). The instructor wrote the prologue, transitional scenes, and an epilogue to tie the four tales together. In these scenes, the PVCC students took on roles as second grade students who were preparing to act out the folk tales. After creating the script, the class had a few weeks to rehearse and then presented the production to over 1,000 people during school day performances and during the PVCC Festival of Tales.

 

W R I T I N G  T H E  S H O W 

Theatre is all about telling stories—to record our history, to teach life lessons, and to entertain us. We started our developmental process by reading other theatre for youth plays to see how they were structured and to identify what aspects of them we might want to incorporate into our own work. Then the creative writing process began. From the start, this has been a collaborative effort. First, we read a group of stories from several Native American tribes and decided on four that we wanted to adapt. This was based on a number of factors, including: the theme of each story, their potential for drama and theatricality, the inclusion of a variety of tribes/nations, animal characters that would be familiar to Arizona children, ease of portrayal, and, of course, the fun factor. 

The Paradise Valley students were divided into four groups, and each group produced a script adapted from one of the Native American stories. The group members worked together, contributed ideas, and formatted and proofread the scripts, which were then incorporated into a final script that included a prologue, an epilogue, and transitional sections written by the instructor. We decided that having the play take place in a second-grade classroom would make the audience feel at home. 

In adapting these tales, we took into consideration the language level appropriate to the target audience (K-2) and simplified some of the language in the original tales. The characters in each tale remained the same in our script with an occasional addition of other characters to make the transitions smoother. The tales were woven together by moving the action in and out of the classroom setting and through several characters who reappear throughout the play. Finally, we added some contemporary references, just for fun and to allow the audience members to relate easier to the material at hand. 

 

P L A Y  S Y N O P S I S

Miss Watuchi’s 2nd grade class is a group of rambunctious children. They are easily distracted and easily entertained. However, today is a special day for Miss Watuchi’s class. Principal Garfield has come to tell Native American folktales to the class, and the students are going to act them out. Follow the kids on a wonderful journey as they learn folktales through trickery, transformation, and friendship. 

 

A N I M A L  T A I L S  S T U D Y  G U I D E 

In addition to the Animal Tails script, students created a Study Guide for use by teachers and students. It contained information on the show itself, the tribes highlighted, audience etiquette tips, a list of resources, and pre and post show activities to use in the classroom to investigate what the children will see in the show. This study guide was wholly created by the students of Theatre For Youth after they examined study guides from professional children’s theatres from around the country. They weighed the pros and cons of each one, and as a class, decided what would be best and most useful to include in our own study guide. You can view the study guide here!

Radium Girls (play) - Based on a True Story

In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rage—until the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease. Inspired by a true story, Radium Girls traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she fights for her day in court. Her chief adversary is her former employer, Arthur Roeder, an idealistic man who cannot bring himself to believe that the same element that shrinks tumors could have anything to do with the terrifying rash of illnesses among his employees. 

RADIUM GIRLS (play) by DW Gregory
DIRECTED BY GARY ZARO

April 17th - 26th
Friday & Saturdays 7:30pm
Sundays 2:00pm

$4-$10 Admission.
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*$4 additional ticket fee at the door 1‐hour prior to performance.

 

The Ballad of Downtown Jake

The Ballad of Downtown Jake centers around the charming but helplessly drug addicted Jake Delmonico as he traverses the streets of New York City in a desperate search for eternal fame. In his struggle to become the next greatest saxophone player in history, the lives of Delmonico’s friends and enemies tangle and become the fire that destroy and rebirths love, lust, and hope in this skillfully crafted tale of the human experience.

Inspired by the poetry collection High Notes, written by PVCC Creative Writing Program founder, Lois Roma-Deeley, The Ballad of Downtown Jake mixes rhythmic prose with the spirited jazz of the 1950s, composed by PVCC Fine and Performing Arts Division chair, Christopher Scinto.

March 12th – 14th @ 7:30pm
Sunday March 15th @ 2:00pm
$8-$15 Admission. 
*$4 additional ticket fee at the door 1 hour prior to performance.
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The Center for Performing Arts
Paradise Valley Community College
18401 N. 32nd St
Phoenix AZ 85032

What I Did Last Summer - A Play by AR Gurney

In What I Did Last Summer fifteen year old Charlie is “captured” by an artsy woman who gives him a summer job in 1945, when World War II is still raging and there are fewer men around to work on her land. The boy’s employer is part bohemian and part Native American, and her values open him up to a world of natural simplicity and freedom very different from the contained and respectable world he is used to.

February 20th, 21st, 27th, 28th @ 7:30pm.

February 22nd & March 1st @ 2:00pm.

$4-$10 Admission.


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