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| The Odeon of Herodes Atticus |
The second leg of our tour will take place at the Globe Theatre in London, England. We will take a backstage look at the theatre going through the tech aspects of the venue like costumes, stage crafts and technical production. Finally, before leaving we will see one of the most dysfunctional families Shakespeare immortalized in a production of Titus Andronicus.
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| The Globe Theatre |
Turning toward Norway we arrive at Den Nationale Scene, previously known as Det Norse Theater where Henrik Ibsen was a writer-in-residence. Det Norse Theater was founded to help develop Norwegian playwrights like Ibsen and others. Our second workshop will be a playwriting session where we will start to dig deep and find those inner-gems of dysfunction of our own families. Our Norse visit will be capped off with a production of Ibsen's Ein Puppenhaus (Doll's House).
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| Den Nationale Scene |
Fourth stop will take us State side to New Orleans, Louisiana to visit the stomping grounds of Tennessee Williams. His play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof takes place in Mississippi, but the rhythm of New Orleans is where it was written and this is where I feel we will find his muse was invoked. Touring the French Quarter we will visit a few local cultural venues for food, music and art before finishing the night off with a production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at Le Petit Theatre.
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| le Petit Theatre |
Next we skip over to Seattle, Washington to the Seattle Repertory Theatre where August Wilson hit his stride as a professional writer. We will be wrapping up that last half of our playwriting exorcise by opening our work thus far and collaborating with the group. Seattle is the art mecca for the west coast giving birth to rock movements, writers and poets and home to a number of museums and art houses. August Wilson's play explored many different themes such as race, family and religion. Wilson's final literary home is where we will experience the production of Fences.
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| The Bagley Wright Theatre Residence of the Seattle Repertory Theatre |
Finally we will embrace the spirit of Harold Pinter and his radio play, Family Voices. We will travel back to London where we will visit the National Theatre in South Bank, London. Our tour group will perform a reading of Pinter's Family Voices in what can be described as sessuns, or what is loosely related to a musical jam session. The stage will be lit and set with three music stands. Patrons of the group will perform the radio play for the tour group taking turns at reading the play. Pinter was a pinnacle of the absurdist movement, keeping the patrons on edge by alienating them and breaking through the fourth wall. This round-robin performance will be a testament to Pinter and the Absurdist movement.
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| The National Theatre |
