SARTA Announces Upcoming Events & Workshops

The Sacramento Area Regional Theatre Alliance announced upcoming workshops and classes:

DECEMBER 4 PLAYWRIGHTS COLLABORATIVE MEETING AT THE CALIFORNIA STAGE THEATRE:

At the Sunday, December 4, Playwrights Collaborative Meeting (7:00 PM) we will reread and discuss Letha Dawson's "No Casino." Ken, a slick entrepreneur proposes a casino as the solution to a town's unemployment problems. Ravina, a single mother and factory worker/union steward, is recruited to advise the city council of the community's attitude toward this potential job-creating development. When Ken and Ravina realize they're on opposite sides of the development, life gets sticky since they've fallen for each other.

This workshop is at the California Stage Theatre, 2509 "R" Street (on "R" Street between 25th and 26th Streets), Sacramento.
The Playwrights Collaborative thanks the California Stage Theater Company for the use of its theater.

The following workshop is on January 8 at the California Stage Theatre.

For further information or if you have a play you would like workshopped, contact Gary Agid, chairman, at gary@agid.com (916-383-9267) . Please let me know if you would like to be removed from this list.
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Workshops are monthly (or occasionally twice monthly) on Sundays on dates to be announced. There are no dues, fees or other charges for participating. Staged readings may be scheduled occasionally by playwrights.

"The Playwrights Collaborative is an organization of writers, actors, directors and others interested in the theater, working together to promote the development and production of new plays in Sacramento and elsewhere. Through a cooperative process of peer review, Playwrights Collaborative assists in making plays ready for production and helps in finding suitable venues where shows mightbe performed."

WORKSHOPS: At each workshop, original plays by local writers are read and discussed as are ways to promote deserving works for production. Several theaters have expressed an interest in producing one new original play per year and Playwrights Collaborative has encouraged similar interest by other theatres in the area. There will also be occasional speakers with expertise in various aspects of theater.

STAGED READINGS: Playwrights participating in the Sunday workshops will be scheduling occasional "staged readings" of plays that have been developed sufficiently to be ready for production. A staged reading is a play production with the actors holding scripts.

Playwrights Collaborative invites interested writers and actors to attend and take part in the workshop readings which can lead to invitational staged readings of new works. The group actively promotes new plays to prospective producers. Following each reading, comments and suggestions for improvement will be solicited from all who are present.

Minimoon Productions Ongoing classes

Private and semi-private vocal coaching and acting lessons are now available with Faith Prince and/or Natasha Burr. Please email or visit minimoonproductions.com for more information.

For more information or to pre-register, please contact Natasha or Faith at minimoonproductions@gmail.com. Or visit the web site at minimoonproductions.com

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NEW WORKS FORUM AT THISTLE DEW:
"Workshopping" a play is not an easy process.

By one definition it is a factory. By another it is a discussion group. At the Thistle Dew it is a combination of both. According to Apple's dictionary it is "a performance of (a dramatic work), using intensive group discussion and improvisation in order to explore aspects of the production before formal staging". The workshop members and the owners of The Thistle Dew, Tom and Ellie, are dedicated to supporting original works by local playwrights.
After we have fully workshopped their plays we offer local playwrights the opportunity to have their plays performed on the Thistle Dew stage.
Calling all Playwrights and wanna-bees!
Do you have a play you'd like critiqued?

On Monday nights at 7pm, jump into the critique fray or listen quietly....until your passions rise and you feel compelled to join the mêlée.

(Overheard before a reading: "I came just to listen, honestly, I've never critiqued a play before, but I just had to say something about Act II, Scene Three ....").

Yes. We know. We've all been there.
All newcomers are welcome!
The theatre is located at 1901 P Street.

Local Playwrights Produced At The Thistle Dew Theatre: (Full-Length Plays) Timothy Cahill, Julie Greene, Paul Hauck, Thomas M. Kelly, Leo McElroy, Charles McIntosh, Laura Sheperd, Donya Wicken.

(Monologues) Gladys Acosta, Timothy Cahill, Charley Cross, Theresa Elliot, Mark Fejta, Bernie Goldberg, Julie Greene, Eugene Griffith, Cindi Bennett, Frank Ingram, GloRia Jones, Thomas M. Kelly, Charles Kelso, Roger Linder, Laura Sheperd, Susan Webster, Donya Wicken and Jeff Webster.

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