New Surry Theatre Presents
Swashbuckling Swordfighting Workshop
Grab a sword and fight like a pirate!
Using techniques seen in movies like Zorro, Pirates of the Carribean, The Princess Bride, and other films, we’ll learn cuts, thrusts, parries, and other piratical moves.
With a special focus on safety, we’ll explore the elements that make swordplay such an exciting part of film and theatre. By the end of class, you'll be swashing and buckling like a pro!
The Swashbuckling Swordfighting Workshop meets Wednesdays, starting September 15th, from 6:30 to 8:30
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.