New Surry Theatre Presents
The Art of Stage Fighting and Swordplay
Learn the basics of unarmed fighting for stage! We’ll explore punches, kicks, slaps, chokes, hair pulls, and much more.
Using the basics of stage combat safety, we’ll learn about audience perspective, character, and vocal technique while preparing exciting fights. By the end of the class, you’ll be fighting up a storm, and beating up multiple partners... safely, of course.
Stage Fighting and Swordplay meets Mondays from 6:30pm to 8:30pm.
Angela Bonacasa (SAFD) is a Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors, and has worked across the country as a stage combat teacher and fight director. While living in Chicago, she was on staff at Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts, the Actors Gymnasium, and taught private classes throughout the city. Additional teaching credits include stints in New York, Seattle, Florida, Texas, Indiana, and North Carolina, where she is a regular guest artist at the North Carolina School of the Arts. She also serves as coordinator for SAFD’s National Stage Combat Workshop East held at NCSA each summer. As a fight director, she has worked in Chicago, New York, and many places in between on productions such as Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Richard III, Cyrano de Bergerac, The House of Bernarda Alba, History of the Devil, Fuddy Meers, Seashore, and the Jeff Recommended productions of The Oresteia and Sueno with Greasy Joan and Co. Recent credits include Peter Pan with the Penobscot Theatre Company, and Macbeth with the Theater at Monmouth.