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Teen Performance Intensive student presentation
TRAPPED: Surviving Through Dreams of Escape
See the work of local, emerging artists!
Friday, August 14, 2015 at 8:00PM

Wheelock Family Theatre
200 The Riverway
Boston, MA 02215
On the campus of Wheelock College
MBTA: Fenway or Longwood on Riverside Line (green D train)

This is a free event. Suggested for adults, teens, and youth 10+

Working on scenes from plays by American and European playwrights, each student from the Teen Performance Intensive has the opportunity to craft a character with training in voice, movement, and acting techniques. Students explore the individual discoveries and immediate connections with fellow actors that are the fundamental core of the performers’ work. TRAPPED: SURVIVING THROUGH DREAMS OF ESCAPE is directed by Fran Weinberg and M. Lynda Robinson and presents excerpts from the following plays: THE BOOK OF RUTH by Deborah Lynn Frockt. A poignant tale of love and faith amidst the despair of war, two generations struggle to stave off starvation and preserve their humanity, their culture and each other. Imprisoned and trying to avoid transports, these characters find solace in sharing treasured recipes, drawing pictures, and a secret project that transports them all far from the confines of their prison. THE GLASS MENAGERIE by Tennessee Williams and FOR WHOM THE SOUTHERN BELLE TOLLS by Christopher Durang. This “Dreams and Delusions” combo will take a side-by-side look at the classic Tennessee Williams play about a former Southern Belle, immersed in golden memories of the past, frustrated with her life, her family, her shy, broken daughter, and dreaming of a way to escape with Christopher Durang’s tongue-in-cheek comic parody of the play. In “For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls” we meet Amanda and her hypochondriac son, Lawrence. In these dual worlds of desperation and delusion, we eagerly await the salvation of the visitor and the secret hope for escape and a transformed future. A SEPARATE PIECE adapted for the stage by Nancy Gilsenen. Based on John Knowles’ classic novel of two high school boys standing on the threshold of adulthood and World War II, “A Separate Peace” dramatizes the fears of young men in a world and a future that seems out of their control. Out on a limb, these two new friends defy the reality of the adult world, seek the truths revealed within, and dream of a “special and separate peace.” LADIES OF THE TOWER by Tim Kelly & Ruth Perry. Two cleaning ladies in the infamous Tower of London are visited by the spirits of the women who met their death inside the dark and stony walls. Doomed by their own bitterness to walk eternally, this provocative play overlaps the past and the present in dramatic and humorous scenes. Can communication and understanding set these women free?