Learn How the Paper Bag Players Make Theater
How do the Paper Bag Players come up with new material year-after-year? How do they create interesting plays that speak directly to their young audiences and relate to their families just as they have for the last 53 years?
The combination of the ordinary and the fantastic is the foundation of "the Bags" approach to theater, an approach fully supported by the material they use for their sets, props, costumes. Using paper bags, cardboard boxes, old clothes you might find in an attic trunk or ordinary household items: mops, pots, pans, wooden spoons--items children themselves play with—they create a unique theatrical world.
In addition, original music is composed for each show. These are songs that can be hummed and sung as they are easy to remember.
Two key people who are Paper Bag Players will conduct a workshop to explain how it is done, and done successfully. Ted Brackett who is the artistic director and lead actor, and John Stone who is a musician and composes music for each new show, will present a theatre workshop entitled A Paper Bag Players Approach to Creating Theater: “Playing with Paper." The workshop has two sessions, one from1:30 to 2:15pm and another from 2:30 to 3:15pm in Orange Hall Theatre on Wednesday, February 22, 2012. Attendees should come to only one session. No registration is necessary. The workshop sessions, which are free and open to the public, are designed for theatre students and interested adults, not children.
Orange Hall is located at the corner of Wawayanda and Grandview Avenues on the Middletown campus of SUNY Orange.
This event is co-sponsored by the SUNY Orange Arts & Communication Department and Cultural Affairs to which questions may be directed:(845)341-4891 or [email protected]
website: www.sunyorange.edu/culturalaffairs
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