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Devising Text Into Image Workshop
with Eric Rose, Artistic Director, Ghost River Theatre
March 27, 2017
6 to 9 pm
Space is limited.  Registration required.  
Priority given to senior directing | devising | performance students.
Questions & to Register Contact: greg.macarthur@uleth.ca 
Organized by the Department of Drama
 

This rigorous hands-on devising theatre workshop is designed to give participants strategies for the breaking down and reimagining of text into striking stage imagery. Working collaboratively over the course of this 3-hour workshop, participants will be led through a series of devising theatre exercises based on the unique artistic practices of Ghost River Theatre.  

Participants will come way from the workshop with new theatrical techniques and exercises that can be utilized both for the creation and development of new performance and the teaching and facilitation of the classroom/studio. Open to artists of all disciplines.

Other Activities with Eric Rose on-campus:
Lunch with Eric Rose
12 pm, March 28 
Room W812, Centre for the Arts building
Bring your lunch and connect with Eric Rose and Greg Arthur for an informal discussion.

About Eric Rose:

Eric Rose is an award winning director, deviser, playwright, educator and the Artistic Director of Calgary’s acclaimed Ghost River Theatre. His work embraces a hybrid of high tech visual spectacle with low-fi theatrical magic and is developed through a significant investment in imaginative research and development.   Selected GRT credits: concept/direction TOUCH, TASTE and Tomorrow’s Child for a blindfolded audience as part of GRT’s Six Senses Series; directing/co-writing The Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst, (Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding Production, Direction, New Play and shortlisted for the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Prize in Drama); directing/co-writing The Highest Step in the World (Betty Award Outstanding Production, CITT Award for Technical Achievement).

Additional credits: directing a lab workshop of Troilus and Cressida for the Stratford Festival, directing/dramaturging The Forbidden Sacrifice for the Kathy Knowles Theatre Company in Ghana.  Eric is honoured to have been the Playwright in Residence at Alberta Theatre Projects, to have received the Canstage Award for Direction (ONE, SummerWorks) be named to Avenue Magazine’s Top 40 Under 40 and to be the recipient of the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Artist Award for his body of work as a live-performance innovator.

As an educator, Eric has taught for: CanAsian International Dance Festival, undercurrents festival, University of Toronto, Theatre Calgary, Globe Theatre, Charlottetown Festival, Tarragon Theatre, NextFest, Mount Royal University, Red Deer and Sheridan College, University of Calgary, Theatre Ontario, Artstrek and many others.

For more information about Ghost River Theatre: www.ghostrivertheatre.com

Image courtesy of artist.