The Visionbox Studio Theatre PLAYCLUB!

(for non-actors)
 

Date: Thursday, September 3rd, 7:00 p.m.

Cost: $25 per person.

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Over the past decade of teaching and performances at Visionbox, one of the most interesting ongoing discoveries has been the response of audience members watching us work on material as part of a performance. After performing scenes or pieces of whole plays we have rehearsed in class sequences, we decided to give notes and direct material in front of the audience. We have been told over and over that watching that part of our process was almost more entertaining or intriguing than the performances themselves. We refer to this as the study of technique and an attention to the process over product.
 

Our play for September 24th is “True West”, the 1980 play by American playwright Sam Shepard. TRUE WEST  is the story of two brothers locked in a rivalry not over the land  of the "True West" but over a kind of mythic land that defines their identities. Sam Shepard was one of our most prolific American playwrights, who explored the opposition between Pop American Culture and the Old West. This play has been performed by countless extraordinary actors, perhaps most notably by Gary Sinese and John Malkovich in 1984.