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CURRENT PROJECTS
UPCOMING
Attention young theater enthusiasts
Ages 13-18
Walking the dog Theater
invites you to join a summer workshop production of
THE IMAGINARY INVALID
Directed by Benedicta Bertau and David Anderson
Performances August 17/18/19 at 7:30 pm and August 20th at 2pm.
This outrageous comedy by Moliere centers on the wealthy and self-involved Argan who affects severe illness to draw attention to himself. His obsession makes him the perfect target for medical charlatans and for a grasping second wife who hopes to see him killed so she may inherit his fortune. To save money, Argan insists that his daughter Angelique marry someone in the medical profession. Angelique, however, loves another man… A saucy servant, a scheming notary, a pompous husband, a mercenary wife, quacks and superstitious doctors, disguises and true love make for a hilarious and fast-paced caleidoscope of a play!
Previous theater experience welcome but not necessary.
Rehearsals for 3 hours Monday – Friday, some weekend times.
The workshop will involve acting exercises, improvisation,
character development, ensemble-building, and speech.
Auditions will be held during the week of July 10th.
Rehearsals begin July 24th in Chatham. Cost: $650
Call 518.755.1716. for more information and registration.
Walking the dog Theater presents a workshop production
of
BURN THIS
By Lanford Wilson
A workshop production directed by Deena Pewtherer
August 3,4,5 and 10,11 at 8pm August 13 at 4pm at:
BASILICA INDUSTRIA
www.basilicaindustria.com
110 South Front Street
Hudson, New York
Tickets: $15 / $10
Commissioned by the Circle Repertory Company, Burn This first appeared in Los Angeles in 1987 to near universal praise. Set in the bohemian art world of downtown New York, this vivid and challenging drama explores the spiritual and emotional isolation of Anna and Pale, two outcasts who meet in the wake of the accidental death by drowning of a mutual friend. Their determined struggle toward emotional honesty and liberation – by no means guaranteed at the play’s ambiguous end – exemplifies the strength, humor, and complexity of all of Pulitzer Prize-winner Lanford Wilson’s work and confirms his standing as one of America’s greatest living playwrights.
“A comedy that laughs at its own tragic roots, a love story in which
the lovers are scared to death of one another, a play about art in which
the stongest sensibility belongs to a character who looks upon artists
as frauds… The play has a voracious vitality and an almost manic
determination to drive right into the highest voltage that life can register.”
—Jack Kroll, Newsweek
For more information call 518.610.0909.
UPCOMING PERFORMANCES FROM
Walking the dog Theater At StageworksHudson
www.stageworkshudson.org
41-A Cross Street
Hudson, New York
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
By William Shakespeare
September 14 – 24, 2006
THE U.S. PREMIERE! Of THE STORM
An Appalling Mistranslation by Peter Oswald
Of a Roman Comedy by Plautus
November 9 – 19, 2006
After its successful World Premiere and run at The Globe in London last summer, which London critics called “An absolute delight” (The Independent) and “Deliciously daft” (The Times), this thoroughly modern version of a classic comedy moves Stateside for its United States premiere.
A rich financial guru lost his infant daughter to kidnappers after he had given away all his money. Sold into prostitution, many years later she is washed to his doorstep by a violent storm. But how will they recognize one another?
In this new version of the Roman comedy by Plautus, itself based on an ancient Greek original, Peter Oswald combines high verse and high comedy, slapstick and pathos to examine ideas of freedom and slavery, loss and discovery.
ALL SHOWS: Thursday/Friday/Saturday at 7:30pm
Saturday & Sunday matinees at 2pm
Tickets: $18 / $15
At StageworksHudson
For more information call 518.610.0909
Ongoing
After school drama program at the Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School, Harlemville, NY. For more information contact David Anderson at 518.610.0909.
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