Details

Session: Fall 2024
Chapter:  West End
Location:  Gayton Baptist Church
Time:  6:45pm - 8:30pm
Day:  Tuesday
Starts:  09/03
Ages:  14 - 18
Tuition:  $250.00
Extra Fee:  $75.00 (performance rights, artistic/tech team, performance space)
Open Spots:  0

** Registration ended September 9, 2024 at 11:55pm

This class is full!

Description

Advanced Acting Academy: Steel Magnolias will help students learn the acting process, from how to tackle a role to scene analysis, through acting exercises, theater games and partner work. Students will spend time learning how to apply these techniques while rehearsing the play, Steel Magnolias, full of rich characters and a beautiful story. Students will be challenged to apply the acting techniques they are learning in their performance of Steel Magnolias at the Academy Festival. 

About Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling: Filled with hilarious repartee and not a few acerbic but humorously revealing verbal collisions, the play moves toward tragedy when, in the second act, the spunky Shelby (who is a diabetic) risks pregnancy and forfeits her life. The sudden realization of their mortality affects the others, but also draws on the underlying strength—and love—which give the play, and its characters, the special quality to make them truly touching, funny and marvelously amiable company in good times and bad.

*PLEASE NOTE Steel Magnolias is an all-female cast, so this will be an all-female class*

The cost for Academy is $325 per session ($250 class tuition, plus an additional $75 fee per session for performance rights, artistic/tech team, performance space).
 
Prerequisite: AUDITION ONLY - AUDITIONS FOR 2024-2025 ARE CLOSED

Teacher:


Ashley Love

Ashley has her B.S. in Performance Pedagogy and an M.A. in Performance Studies from Bob Jones University. After grad school she taught junior high and high school English, theatre, and public speaking for ten years at a private school in South Carolina. During these years, she started a theatre program at her school and directed and coached over eighteen youth productions, while also co-founding a children’s theatre in Myrtle Beach, SC. She recently received her M.F.A. degree in Theatre Pedagogy at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Location:

13501 N.Gayton Road, Henrico, VA 23233