EWT starts with Stoppard

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Dear friend of East West Theatre,

We are very pleased to announce the lineup for our Spring 2011 Season of plays and workshops. There’s a wonderful selection to choose from and we hope you enjoy them all, especially our headlining show – Rozencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead – in April.

Please share this email with anyone who might be interested. Thank you!

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A.P.E  (Actors, Players, Etc)

Liberate your Primate with these Acting & Improv workshops.

Every Tuesday 7-9pm.

16 weeks of workshops to liberate your primate! These workshops are a place to develop your acting skills – no matter what your level – includingwarm-ups,  games, concentration work, co-operation,  characterization & improvisation. At least one guest instructor each month. Coming up: Chen Kai, choreographer & modern dancer – graduate of the Hong Kong Academy of Fine Arts – will lead a movement workshop, and Alex Fergnani – member of the Italian fungfu team – will lead one in stage fighting and sword play.Requirements: an above-basic level of English, 14 yrs or older, a sense of adventure and creativity, clothes and shoes comfortable enough for a game of tag…

For more details, email:  ape.escaped@gmail.com

25 & 27 MARCH 2011

Two Short Plays & A Comic Improv Interlude

The Bear by Anton Chekhov: A young widow deep in mourning and a creditor desperate for money find themselves entangled in a duel to the death. A short comedy with an ending you’ll never expect.

Flushed With Wine by Ding Xilin: In this thoughtful, compelling tale, a young married couple explore the boundaries of love as the husband dares his wife to kiss a guest who has passed out on the couch.

These performances are  FREE!

For more information, please email:  shanghai.short.plays@gmail.com

30 MARCH to 3 APRIL 2011

ART – the award winning comedy by Yasmina Reza

Co-produced with 3rd Culture Theatre

“You paid 200,000 francs for this …?”The friendship of Serge, Marc & Yvan is unexpectedly tested when Serge buys a completely white painting that Marc loathes. But why does Marc loathe it? Is it because he hates contemporary art?

Or is it because there’s just no way his good friend could have such bad taste.

Don’t miss this Tony-award winning play about art and friendship, and how the two sometimes don’t go together.

Starring Jim Ambrose, Philip Knight & Charles Mayer.

Directed by Jonathan Geenen

For more information, please email:  3rdculture.theatre@gmail.com

8 APRIL – 17 APRIL 2011

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard

This 3 act comedy follows the musings and misadventures of two minor characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Full of deaths and betrayals, clanking swords, love and tragedy, and a whole lotta laughs, this is the the story of Hamlet told (in modern language) like never before, asking us… where is the line between reality and art? What is mortality? Do words have their own life? And who are Rosencrantz & Guildenstern?

At the Xinguang Theatre, 586 Ningbo Road near People’s Square

For more information, please email:  east.west.info@gmail.com

7 – 15 MAY 2011

Dmitry Troyanovsky – Stanislavsky Workshops

Recapture the spirit of excitement and risk that brought you to acting! Using the legendary Stanislavsky Acting technique, Dmitry will lead you through meaningful and challenging exercises, games and improvisations to develop the desired psychological and physical skills required to awaken and liberate the imagination.

Dmitry Troyanovsky has taught at New York University’s Tisch School for the Arts, Bard College, Harvard University, and Marymount Manhattan College.  He has led workshops and developed new dramatic material at institutions such as Baryshnikov Arts Center, American Repertory Theatre Institute, St. Petersburg State University and Brown University.  He is an MFA graduate of the American Repertory Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University and Moscow Art Theatre School in Russia.

For more information, please email:  rami_star2002@yahoo.co.uk