Burning Coal Takes Up November Residence At Three Wake County Schools

Burning Coal continues its acclaimed WillPower! & Shakescenes education outreach programs this month, bringing hands-on experience with Shakespeare into area schools. Director of Education Ian Finley will perform week-long residencies with the entire 5th grade at Baileywick Elementary (funded in part by the United Arts Council of Wake County) and the 4th & 5th grades at Trinity Academy in November. These residencies will introduce Shakespeare to young students in a way that is fast, fun, and active, so that when they encounter the Bard later in their school career they approach the text knowing how much fun it can be.

Mr. Finley will also be starting a longer term residency at Raleigh Charter High School this month, serving as musical director for their upcoming performance of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods.

For further information on Burning Coal's ongoing education programming, contact Ian Finley at (919) 834-4001 or burning_coal@ipass.net.

Burning Coal Theatre Company is one of Raleigh's professional theatre companies. Burning Coal is an incorporated, non-profit [501 (c) (3)] organization. Burning Coal's mission is to produce literate, visceral, affecting theatre that is experienced, not simply seen. Burning Coal
produces explosive reexaminations of overlooked classic and modern plays, as well as new plays, whose themes and issues are of immediate concern to our audience, using the best local, national and International Artists available. We work toward a theatre of high-energy performances and minimalist production values. The emphasis is on literate works that are felt and experienced viscerally, unlike more traditional linear plays, at which audiences are most often asked to observe without participating. Race and gender non-specific casting is an integral component of our perspective, as well as an international viewpoint.

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