BP Drama Club Workshop—

Projection for New Actors

What: Beijing Playhouse Drama Club Workshop— Projecting on Stage for New Actors

When: Tuesday, September 5, 2017. 6:30 pm, social. 7:30 pm, workshop starts.

Workshop Leaders: Charity Readers Theatre Grapes of Wrath creative team.

Workshop Focus: Teaching how to project on stage. Especially good for new actors. Experienced actors are welcome to come and offer tips, too. We’ll also explain what Charity Readers Theatre is all about and how to audition for readers theatre on September 9.

Charity Readers Theatre: Charity Readers Theatre, presented by Beijing Playhouse Drama Club, is all about acting, acting, acting. There are almost no costumes, no props, no sets, no lighting design, no sound design, no subtitles. It’s all acting. And as it is readers theatre, actors will carry scripts to refer to.

100% of all ticket sales are donated to charity. The beneficiary of this performance of Grapes of Wrath is Social Work Development Center charity.

Charity Readers Theatre is an artistic process where actors rehearse for only one week. And at the end of that week, we do one performance only. It’s a show in a week. Beijing Playhouse’s main stage shows take three months to rehearse and perform. So CRT is a much smaller commitment on behalf of actors. While the commitment is much less, one week as opposed to three months, that will be one extremely intense week. Actors who are cast will live and breathe this show for that week.

Show: Grapes of Wrath. John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning gut-wrenching epic, prominently sited when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. An impoverished family, driven from their farm by drought and economic hardship, is forced to travel west, through the Dust Bowl, to the promised land of California. Along with thousands of other homeless, they seek jobs, dignity and a future.

Audition Date: Saturday, September 9 at 10 am

Performance Date: Saturday, September 16 at 7:30 pm

Location: Caravan restaurant, 44 Guanghua Rd, directly across the street from the Brazilian embassy, 300 m north of the Jianguomen subway station. 从建国门地铁站下，东南口出。沿着东二环向北走300米。朝东（右转）到光华路，向东走100米到Caravan酒店。Caravan地址：直接穿过巴西大使馆大街对面，光华路44

Language and Age: If you have lots of experience or none at all, if you are a native speaker of English or still gaining confidence speaking English, if younger or older, all are welcome.

What: Never acted before? Give it a try! Beijing Playhouse, China’s English Broadway Theatre, is always looking for experienced actors as well as undiscovered talent.

Thinking About Auditioning for a Future Show? If you are thinking about auditioning for a future BP show, drama club is a perfect opportunity to learn more about English theatre in China. Auditions for Grapes of Wrath are Saturday, September 9, 2017 at 10 am.

Contact: For more information, email broadway@beijingplayhouse.com