Theatre Workshops Registration Open

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Registration Open for Summer Theatre Workshops

San Juan Community Theatre is offering three weeks of workshops for youth this summer, including one week with teachers from Seattle Children’s Theatre.

Those two instructors, Chris Dewar and Laura Knote, will visit Friday Harbor from July 7 to 11 to lead classes for students in grades 1-8. Classes range from “Fairy Tale Fantasy” and “Space Squad” for younger students to “Physical Comedy” and “Scene Study” for older ages. This is the second year the regional theatre has partnered with SJCT to provide what they call creative drama classes that are “drama true”– the truth created when disbelief is suspended and we enter an imaginary world.

Following SCT’s visit, SJCT Production Assistant and veteran director Penelope Haskew and actress Amanda Smith will offer classes July 14-18: from Haskew’s “Adventures in Theater I and II” and a by-audition-only-course, “You’re the Star!”; to Smith’s “From Page to Performance” aimed at older teens. Then during the week of July 21-25, Haskew will teach “A Week in the Life” workshop for grades 5-8 (with a special invitation for students from Lopez Island), which looks at many facets of theater including acting, directing, designing and stage craft.

Registration details for all of the workshops are available on-line at www.sjctheatre.org. Each class is $125 per week per student, with a $15 early bird discount for those registered by June 15; scholarships are available for students who qualify for the free and reduced lunch program. For more information, contact Mary Blevins at 378-3211,
ext. 29.

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