2014-321 Arts - The Arts Center for Spring 2014 Arts Grant Agreement $1,500

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t The ArtsCenter: ArtsCenter Stage Free Acting Wc—KShops Proposed Uses Of Grant Funds ArtsCenter Stage's 2014-15 will include three productions which commemorate the I00th anniversary of the beginning of World War One. The three productions include Into the Breach by local playwright lar Bowater in October 2014; All is Calm, The Christmas Truce of 1914 by Peter Rothstein in December 2014; and Oh, What a Lovely War by Joan Littlewood and the Theater Workshop in May 2015. Ruru,ing concurrently with these three productions ArtsCenter Stage will offer a series of free workshops for actors and actresses involved with these productions. In addition, each workshop will offer up to 10 additional spaces, free of charge, to actors involved with One Song Productions, an Orange County-based, youth-run theatre organization. The ArtsCenter respectfully asks the Orange County Arts Commis,, on for a grant of$1,500 to help support the fees for these free workshops. Shakespeare Workshops / Into the Breach The actors from Into the Breach and One Song Productions will be provided a five-week long workshop, meeting once a week, in Shakespeare technique. During these workshops, participants will take ownership of Shakespeare's language through activities that involve physical, intellectual, and vocal engagement with Shakespeare's text on an individual and ensemble level. These workshops will introduce the actors to a text approach which is an open, personal commitment to thought, word and gesture. Actors will explore the uniquely Shakespearian actor/audience relationship: a theatrical reality without a fourth wall in which the immediate energy of the audience fuels the actor and engages the audience. The workshops will continue by focusing on text analysis and detailed scene work. Text work will focus on scansion, verse and prose, image analysis and phrasing. This Shakespeare workshop will run concurrently with rehearsals for Into the Breach. This series of workshops will enhance the actors' performances in Into the Breach, a play set in the early years of World War I in which scenes from Shakespeare's Henry V are included. In addition, this series of worksho_),, will provide One Song Production actors the opportunity to work on Shakespeare scenes and sonnets. These scenes and sonnets will to be performed for the community for free at the end of the workshop. Dialect Workshop /All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 The actors/singers from All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 and One Song Productions will be provided a five-week long workshop, meeting once a week, in dialect work focusing primarily on Br-ir.ish dialects. During this workshop, actors will study and apply dialect techniques to material found in the play All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914. Actors will work on Standard British (RP), German and French dialects which will enhance their performances in All is Calm. Actors from One Song Productions \v ll study and apply dialect techniques to poetry from the World War One time period including classic poems of the war by Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, Rudyard Kipling, and others. The dialect workshop will run concurrently with rehearsals for All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914. The actors/singers cast in All is Calm are members of Cantari, a Chapel Hill-based vocal ensemble specializing in a cappella music. In the play, actors speak in different dialects including British, German and French. In addition, this series of workshops will provide One Song Production actors the opportunity to