Name: Provoking the Text: Staging Unconventional Performance Pieces
Start: 2025-01-21T15:30:00-0600
End: 2025-01-21T16:45:00-0600

Tuesday January 21, 2025 3:30pm - 4:45pm CST

Marriott Council Bluffs/Davenport (3rd Floor)

Learn and experiment with the process of “provoking” a text—an active process of collaboratively unlocking the storytelling and performance potential of unusual, unconventional, or non-standard scripts. Great for developing new work, staging personal narrative, activating adaptations, or bringing classical or translated works to life, this hands-on workshop will offer techniques useful to directors, actors, playwrights, dramaturgs, and designers.

Presenters

Jayna Gearhart Fitzsimmons

Augustana University

Drs. Jayna Gearhart Fitzsimmons (theatre) and Richard W. Swanson (classics, religion, and philosophy) teach at Augustana University and have developed an interdisciplinary approach to developing and collaboratively staging new work. Together, Jayna (director and dramaturg) and Richard... Read More →

Tuesday January 21, 2025 3:30pm - 4:45pm CST
Marriott Council Bluffs/Davenport (3rd Floor)

Workshops

Area Acting and Directing, Playwriting

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KCACTF Region 5 Festival 57

Jayna Gearhart Fitzsimmons

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