NIDA Box Seat | November 2008 - National Institute of Dramatic Art

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BOX SEAT | November 2008

Dear <~~First~~>,

NIDA's final productions for 2008 are about to begin. If you're quick you can still pick up some tickets for the graduating directors' program: Emergency - two collections of short plays. These plays will be showing at NIDA from 26 to 29 November.

NIDA will celebrate its 50th Anniversary in 2009. Celebrations are already getting started with NIDA Open Program staging William Shakespeare's classic comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream in January. Auditions will be held on 27 November and are open to everybody. This special production will include age groups 9-11 yrs, 12-15 yrs and 16 yrs+ in an all ages performance of Shakespeare's wildest comedy. Also, NIDA Open Program is holding auditions on 13 December for A Day in December, an exciting new Australian dramatic work written by Linden Wilkinson, to be directed by award winning actor/ director Jennifer Hagan.

For those who want to have a summer to remember ... NIDA's Summer Program features a vast range of short courses for young people and adults. These courses offer world class tuition and are available throughout December and January.

NIDA's Parade Theatres are hosting an exciting program this summer! As part of Sydney Festival, Gate Theatre is presenting three plays by Ireland's favourite tragi-comedian, Brian Friel. Comedian Carl Barron will take to the stage this February and March with his new show Walking Down the Street and don't miss Australian Theatre of the Deaf's current season of Wild Boys, playing now until 29 November.

We look forward to seeing you at NIDA this summer!

A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM | A SUMMER PRODUCTION
BY NIDA OPEN PROGRAM | AUDITIONS 27 NOVEMBER

STAGE RIGHT
DARREN GILSHENAN

Introducing Darren Gilshenan, a NIDA Acting graduate and experienced theatre practitioner, co-director of the upcoming NIDA Open Program summer production A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Most memorable NIDA experience?
mmm... too many but there was this one time on a trip to Adelaide Festival camp when we performed at the Festival Centre during happy hour when...

Learn more about Darren...

PLAY PRODUCTIONS
EMERGENCY | 6 SHORT PLAYS

OPEN PROGRAM
SUMMER TUTORS SIGN UP

CORPORATE TRAINING
GIRLS ON FILM

The graduating directors' choices of six short plays reveal a pre-occupation with strong writing related to the human need to make connections. In a fragmented world playwrights Ionesco and Koltes try to make intimate connections in The Bald Soprano and In the Solitude of Cotton Fields.

Often the past and memory come to haunt us as we try to connect in the present as in Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive and Tennessee Williams’ This Property is Condemned.

Ironically, in what may seem a tragic perspective, these plays also reveal an odd or even outrageous humour. Drag queens, clown-like characters, and wistful eccentrics abound.

The season runs from 26-29 Nov in the Parade Space.

Visit NIDA this summer and receive world class tuition from tutors such as: award winning actor/ director Jennifer Hagan, Network 7's Home and Away Nicholas Bishop, award winning director Kate Gaul, Network 7's All Saints Will Traval, Sydney Theatre Company's Women of Troy Queenie van de Zandt, Voice experts Simon Stollery and Carmen Lysiak, Bell Shakespeare's Pericles Julie Goss, props maker Will Neave and TV Presenter Faye DeLanty, just to name a few!

Our popular 2 - 4 week January studios in acting, directing, presenting and music theatre are filling up. Apply now for a position.

Look out for new youth courses such as: NIDAwick Chronicles, NIDA Jones and the Temple of Gloom and Jedi School @ Powerhouse Museum.

Film is one of the many mediums used in today's business environment.

This two-hour seminar has been designed specifically for women. It explores presenting in front of the camera and looks at conveying information in a spontaneous manner without being stricken by performance anxiety.

NIDA Corporate Performance will be offering this as a customised program in 2009 in your capital city.

SEMINAR DETAILS:
4 December 2008
9:30am to 11:30am
NIDA, 215 Anzac Parade Kensington
Cost: $185 per person
Enquiries: 02 9697 7560

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PARADE THEATRES
CARL BARRON

OPEN PROGRAM
SUMMER PRODUCTIONS

SYDNEY FESTIVAL
GATE | BRIAN FRIEL

Comedian Carl Barron is back with a new show Walking Down the Street which has been described as- "so achingly funny you may be in danger of wetting your pants. If you enjoy Australian humour, this is definitely a show to see"- 'The Fix'- Melbourne Fringe Festival.

Walking Down the Street will be playing at the Parade Theatre from February 7- March 8, 2009.

To enter the draw for a free double pass to the performance on Sunday February 8 just name the title of any Carl Barron DVD and e-mail your answer with your details to: marketing@nida.edu.au
Entries close 5pm Nov 21.

NIDA Open Program is celebrating NIDA's 50th birthday by staging William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream this January. Audition spots for 12-15yrs and 16yrs+ are still available on 27 November. Book now to be part of this magical experience.

NIDA Open Program is also staging an exciting new Australian drama A Day in December this February. Written by established playwright Linden Wilkinson, this one act verbatim play explores the Glenbrook rail disaster. Auditions for adults 16yrs+ will be held on Dec 13. Book now for this rare opportunity to work with director Jennifer Hagan and writer Linden Wilkinson.

Credited with changing the face of modern Irish Theatre, tragi-comedian Brian Friel, has explored the Irish psyche with unmatched insight and razor sharp wit. For this Sydney Festival season, the Gate Theatre will be presenting three plays: Faith Healer, arguably Friel's greatest play, along with two pieces inspired by Anton Chekhov; Afterplay and The Yalta Game at the Parade Theatre.

To go into the draw to win a double pass to Faith Healer 7.30pm Jan 15, name another play by Brian Friel showing at Sydney Festival and e-mail your answer with your details to: marketing@nida.edu.au by 5pm Nov 21.

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THE RED SHOES | WIN A DOUBLE PASS WED NOV 26
Ballet’s most romantic love story comes to Sydney for the first time. Playing from November 26-28 at Riverside Theatres, the WA Ballet proudly presents this classic tale of a beautiful ballerina torn between her two passions – ballet and the man she loves. Riverside is offering 3 double passes to the show on Wednesday Nov 26. To win email your contact details to: publicity_riverside@parracity.nsw.edu.au with "Red Shoes" in the subject heading. Winners need to wear red shoes to the performance.