Burning Coal Theatre Announces Upcoming Workshops

By: Jan. 21, 2010
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Two Exciting events coming up at Burning Coal Theatre: A 3 day Viewpoints Workshop taught by OBIE Award winner Randolph Curtis Rand and a Lobby Lecture with two of the country's foremost experts on the game of Poker! See below for details on both.

VIEWPOINTS WORKSHOP in February
Master actor, director and playwright Randolph Curtis Rand will teach a three day Viewpoints workshop at Burning Coal Theatre on three Saturdays in February. Fee is $150. To reserve a place in the class, call 919-834-4001.

Dates/times are Saturday, February 6 from 2 to 5 pm, Saturday, February 13 from 11 to 2 pm and Saturday, February 20 from 11 to 2 pm. Location: Meymandi Theatre at the Murphey School, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh, NC 27604. For more information: www.burningcoal.org or 919-834-4001.

About Randolph Curtis Rand
Randy is an Obie Award winning theatre artist from New York City. His work encompasses choreography, design, directing, dramaturgy, performing, teaching and writing. In New York, he was a member of two influential theatre companies; Arden Party ("..an amazing company...with plasticine bodies and souls." The Village Voice), and The Drama Dept. He also worked with Joseph Chaikin, Douglas Dunn, Elevator Repair Service, Richard Foreman, La Mama ETC, Meredith Monk, The Public Theater, and the Wooster Group among others. Regionally he has worked at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Burning Coal Theatre, The Center Theatre Group (L.A.), The Hanger Theater, Jacob's Pillow, The Kennedy Center, Not-Man-ApArt Theatre, On the Boards, The Orlando Shakespeare Theater, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Shakespeare Santa Monica, The Walker Arts Center, and The Wexner.

He has taught, and directed at institutions like NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, NYU Graduate Acting Program, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The New School, The Hanger Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Monica, Swarthmore College, The University of the Arts, The University of Kentucky, and The University of Tennessee. From 2004 to 2007 he was lead theatre teacher at The North Carolina Governor's School (East).

About The Viewpoints
Developed by Mary Overlie, and Wendall Beavers, and furthered by artists like Anne Bogart, Tina Landau, and the Siti Company, over the past 20 years Viewpoints training has ignited the imagination of choreographers, actors, directors, designers, and writers. Taught now in universities across the country, Viewpoints, is a practical language for artists to use, work with/create from, time and space. Viewpoint is "a philosophy translated into a technique for training performers, building ensemble and creating movement for the stage."

Poker Professionals to Appear at Burning Coal

Burning Coal Theatre Company will host professional poker player David Enoch and poker author Matt Flynn for its third Lobby Lecture of the 2009-2010 season. The Lobby Lecture will be held at 5:30 pm on Saturday, February 20 followed by a performance of Conor McPherson's play, The Seafarer. The cost of admission for the lecture is $5 (available at the door), but all ticketholders to any performance of The Seafarer (February 4 - 21, 2010) will get in to the Lobby Lecture free. Tickets to The Seafarer are $20 or $15 for students, seniors and active military and are available at www.burningcoal.org or at 919.834.4001.

David Enoch resides in California and is one of the few full-time professional poker players in the United States. He has logged eleven consecutive winning years as a professional player and has appeared at the final table of the Main Event at the World Series of Poker. Matt Flynn resides in Raleigh and is the co-author of Professional No-Limit Hold 'em: Volume I and is currently at work on Volume II. He has played professional tournaments and cash games across the United States and in Costa Rica. Enoch and Flynn will discuss their experiences in the world of professional poker, the history and popularity of the game, and poker strategy.

The Lobby Lecture program features experts from fields related to the themes and issues featured in Burning Coal's productions. The Seafarer, which features a high-stakes game of poker, is directed at Burning Coal by artistic director Jerome Davis. The Seafarer performs February 4-21, 2010 and tickets are available through www.burningcoal.org or by calling (919) 834-4001.

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Burning Coal Theatre Company is Raleigh's small professional theatre. Burning Coal is an incorporated, non-profit [501 (c) (3)] organization. Burning Coal's mission is to produce literate, visceral, affecting theatre that is experienced, not simply seen. Burning Coal produces explosive reexaminations of overlooked classic and modern plays, as well as new plays, whose themes and issues are of immediate concern to our audience, using the best local, national and International Artists available. We work toward a theatre of high-energy performances and minimalist production values. The emphasis is on literate works that are felt and experienced viscerally, unlike more traditional linear plays, at which audiences are most often asked to observe without participating. Race and gender non-specific casting is an integral component of our perspective, as well as an international viewpoint.

 



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