East Lynne Theater Company's Actors & Creatives Teach Classes, Host Films

Performers currently working with East Lynne Theater Company are busy these days outside of the usual four-performance week schedule of "Alice on The Edge."

Mark Edward Lang and Alison J. Murphy, who have performed extensively with ELTC, as well as with theaters in New York and across the country, return to the Avalon Free Public Library with their popular "Shakespeare and Improv" workshop. The classes are free and for three sessions only: June 23, June 30, and July 7 from 6:30p.m.-8:30p.m. Those who attended last year's workshops are welcome to return, as well as those who are new to improv and Shakespeare. Participants need not attend all three evenings, but are encouraged to do so. This unusual course incorporates material developed by Viola Spolin (the inventor of Theater Games) along with techniques used by the Royal Shakespeare Company and other theater groups to train their performers. The best actors, and perhaps the most successful people in life, have a combination of confidence, discipline and spontaneity that this course seeks to encourage and develop. The library is located at 235 32 St. and Ocean Dr. Come dressed comfortably to move. Class size is limited, so reservations are requested. For more information or to register contact the library at 967-7155.

On Monday, July 6, ELTC's artistic director Gayle Stahlhuth and technical director Lee O'Connor are the guest hosts for one of Cape May Film Society's "Joe Stinson's Love and Bullets" series. The film they selected is the stylishly gripping "La Femme Nikita," directed by Luc Besson. Released in 1990, it's as powerful today as it was seventeen years ago, and like most originals, no remake, including the American version, "Point of No Return," can touch it. How Nikita goes from killing a cop during a drug store heist to being an assassin for the government - and falls in love with a drugstore employee along the way - proves that this is not the usual "shoot-‘em-up love story." The full series runs every Monday at 7:00p.m. from June 29-August 3 at the West Cape May Borough Hall. Tickets are $5 for Cape May Film Society members, and $10 for nonmembers. For information call 884-6700 or go to www.capemayfilm.org.

Meanwhile, ELTC's Student Summer Workshop production of "Hans Brinker" has begun, and the delightfully witty "Alice on The Edge" runs through July 25. For information about ELTC's season, call 884-5898 or go to www.eastlynnetheater.org.

Photo: Mark Edward Lang and Alison J. Murphy who are conducting the Shakespeare workshop at the Avalon Free Public Library.

Photo credit: M. P. Myers Photography

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