WORKSHOPS

For information about workshops please email happenstancetheater@gmail.com

CLOWN with Happenstance!

Take off to the fun place. Learn how to chop down the 4th wall and let the butterflies free. Be a better performer by getting some clown in your vocabulary.

TEXT? ASSEMBLY REQUIRED! PROCESS BY HAPPENSTANCE

We have created three successful productions for the Capital Fringe Festival: Prufbox, Low Tide Hotel, and Manifesto!, all of which have enjoyed further lives at venues such as the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, NY Clown Festival, The Peabody Essex Museum, and Round House Theater. The team of Mark Jaster and Sabrina Mandell have developed these shows through a collaborative process that treats text fragments with visual imagery, character, clown, puppetry and physical expression.

In a pair of workshops we will take text fragments and explore a range of possible treatments.  In the first meeting we will provide the source material, and stimulate its creative exploration and presentation in a small group format. In the second, material brought in by the participants will provide the points of departure, allowing guided collaborative inquiry and the experience of a variety of approaches.  In both meetings, supportive, interactive, creative play will set the tone.

MIME WORKSHOP (for ages 17 and up)
Fee $150

Mark Jaster, who studied Mime with Etienne Decroux and served as Marcel Marceau’s teaching assistant teaches workshops in Mime technique, drawing on exercises he learned from Decroux and Marceau, exploring topics of articulation and clarity, the balance of form and content, illusion, physical characterization, and, given student interest, the creation and critique of student material.

email happenstancetheater@gmail.com for more information