Saline Area Players hold Auditions for Directing Workshop

Have you been hoping to try your hand at directing? Try this interactive directing workshop experience in which participants will be treated to hands-on guidance, support and training while preparing scenes for performance.

Curtain Up: Directing Workshop is a chance for any would-be director to learn the basics about directing. Participants chosen during auditions will be designated as directors and/or actors. Rebecca L Groeb, well known for her theater work in Saline - she began in the Saline Area Players as a child and is the current Cultural Arts Specialist/Theater Manager for Saline Area Schools - is the artistic director/instructor for the project. Those chosen will benefit from a 3-hour director training during the first week. Following that, during four weeks of rehearsal, plus a show week, participants will work on 4-5 chosen Neil Simon scenes and each participant will be involved in 1-2 scenes. Rebecca will offer guidance and advice to the directors in a very interactive process where all will be afforded opportunities to give suggestions about directing choices. The cost is $50/person for this excellent instruction.

Auditions are March 15 & 16 at 7 PM (registration at 6:30), at Liberty School, 7265 N. Ann Arbor St, Saline. All persons (18+) will be asked do cold readings from a script and participate in improvisational activities.

Rehearsals will be on Mondays/Tuesdays, depending on what scenes you are in, and Thursdays from March 20-April 13. Show week begins April 17 with dress rehearsals that lead up to the performance on April 20 & 21.

The Saline Area Players website has FULL INFORMATION about the workshop along with audition forms. Visit the website at www.salineareaplayers.org Address additional questions to curtainup@salineareaplayers.org