The New Surry Theatre Performing Arts School

Scene Study:

In Scene Study, experienced acting students will work on and perform a selected scene from a contemporary American or English play for the class. In a given week, half of the students will show their progress to the rest of the class. The students will be expected to meet with the other actors in their scene to rehearse on their own time in order to progress in performance quality each time they perform for the class. They will also be expected to comment on each scene they see with dialogue that will be helpful to their fellow actors. The teacher will direct each scene during class as if it were in rehearsal.

The Scene Study Class will also have a Writer-in-Residence. The students, the writer and the director will work together towards writing and producing a One Act Play. A description of this process will be available to Scene Study students before class begins.

Scene Study meets Wednesdays: 7:30- 9:30

Bill Raiten was born, raised and schooled in New York City, and has always been involved in theatre. A stand-up comic in the ‘50’s, a writer in the ‘60’s, a director, acting teacher and producer since then, he has always found his way to the theatre. He has directed, taught and performed in New York, Hollywood, and Maine in America as well as in the USSR and Canada, He has educated young people using his brand of theatre as a vehicle for them to find and like themselves. He has filmed an original short documentary with Maine Public Broadcasting that was aired in May 2001 and nominated for a New England regional Emmy Award and using his teaching methods at the Maine Youth Center with Seymour Papert of MIT they had the incarcerated youth write and edit their own film. He now teaches Acting in Maine and in Boston, Massachusetts and is the Artistic Director of the New Surry Theatre.