New Surry Theatre Presents
Scene Study/Directing
The Scene Study Class will have only experienced Acting students performing scenes selected by the Instructor from contemporary American or English plays.
Students will work on their own scenes every other week during class. On the alternate week, students will be the audience for the other students’ scenes. 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 observations that will be helpful to their fellow Actors.
Each week during class, the Instructor will direct each scene as if it were in rehearsal. The last class will be an Open House for family and friends.
Scene Study meets Fridays, starting on September 17th, from 6:30 to 8:30
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.