Theatre Adventure Thursday Troupe
ALL HYBRID CLASSES (Online and In-Person)
September 2023- April 2024
Fall Semester Sept 7–Nov 16, 9:00-12 pm
Winter/Spring Semester Jan 11 - Apr 11, 9:00-12 pm
TUITION: $425 for Fall/ $475 for Winter/Spring
NOVEMBER 2023 HYBRID PERFORMANCE
Belonging
November 8th, 9th at 10:30 am ET *In-person audience
November 10th at 7 pm ET *In-person and Online
Theatre Adventure Thursday Troupe members are adults who share a burning desire as performing artists. The actors create a nurturing community of artists with a breadth of talent in addition to a beautiful diversity of physical, developmental, and cognitive differences. The stage, an audience, costumes, character development, set design, script development, blocking, props, memorization of lines, movement work, pantomime, shadow puppets, music, movement, dancing, and singing all feed the spirits of the troupe members as they spend the school year together creating their original productions. Past productions include: The Costume Shop, Daydreaming, Raising our Voices Together, Twelfth Night, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Stagestruck, Courageous, and Flights of Fancy.
This coming school year promises to offer a tremendous feast of creative opportunities. Our hybrid programming model gives students the option to attend in-person as well as online. We are committed to being flexible and responsive to our actors’ needs that might indeed change throughout the year in response to COVID-19 variants, inclement weather, transportation issues, and support professional schedules. Our experienced and highly skilled team of teachers/artists look forward to offering a bounty of expressive arts that will inspire and cultivate bold and innovative inclusive theater while creating our November production, Belonging.
The expressive arts will offer a rich diversity of story-telling methods for our show: acting, movement, sound, music, poetry, singing, puppetry, and more. Actors, both in-person and online, will embark on new theater adventures while creating, Belonging.
Nettie Lane, Educator and Clown Artist, will guide the Troupe into the wondrous world of Red Nose Clown. Through a somatic process, each Troupe member will discover their own unique clown character. What happens when you don "the world's smallest mask?" When you arrive first at 'being,' instead of immediately 'doing,' on stage? Where each Clown's creative impulse is a YES to be explored?
Two months of exploration, play, and improvisation will help breathe life into the November production. Characters will improvise with physicality and surprises. “Belonging” is a show about believing in self, being brave on stage, and giving back to the audience.
We anticipate the Troupe members will demonstrate courage, open hearts, joy and generosity that will create a dynamic circle - a heartbeat of connection - between the Clowns and Audience.
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Thursday Troupe Actors singing and dancing in “Raising our Voices Together”
FALL SEMESTER
September 2023
Thursday: 7, 14, 21, 28
October 2023 *FRIDAY REHEARSALS BEGIN!*
Thursday: 5, 12, 19, 26
Friday: 20, 27
November 2023 **SHOW MONTH! NOTE EXTRA DAYS!**
Thursday: 2
Friday: 3
Monday: 6 Final Dress Rehearsal
NOVEMBER HYBRID PERFORMANCES
(ONLINE AND IN-PERSON)
Wednesday: 8 at 10:30 AM
Thursday: 9 at 10:30 AM
Friday: 10 at 7 PM (CAST CALL 9 am each day)
Thursday: 16 from 9 AM to NOON **Cast Party, Troupe wrap up and eval**
Winter/Spring Semester
January 2024
Thursday: 11, 18, 25
February 2024
Thursday: 1, 8, 15, 29 NO THEATER CLASS Feb. 22nd
March 2024
Thursday: 7, 14, 21 28
April 2024 (NO APRIL PRODUCTION)
Thursday: 4, 11
May 2024~ No Thursday classes
Please Attend the Wednesday TROUPE SHOW: Alice in Wonderland
Wed 15 (10:30 AM); Thur 16 (10:30 AM show); Fri 17 (10:30 AM show)
Summer Troupe Members drumming together
SUMMER EXPRESSIVE ARTS IMMERSIVE
ONE-WEEK CAMPS
Each week with specific expressive art disciplines and focus
Sign up for one, two, or three weeks ($300/week or $475 full-time)
PART-TIME ENROLLMENT EACH WEEK AVAILABLE
MONDAY-FRIDAY: 8:30 AM-NOON
June 17- 21
June 24- 28
July 8-12
Please contact us to enroll in one of our programs or for further information about our inclusive programming.
Thursday Troupe Actors performing in “Stagestruck”
REGISTRATION, HEALTH, AND RELEASE FORM 2022/2023
FOR CURRENT STUDENTS
Please complete this ENTIRE FORM including signing releases and return to info@theatreadventure.org or mail to P.O. Box 2264, West Brattleboro, VT 05303.