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Announcing Our 2014 Production and Fundraiser
Thursday, November 06, 2014 Filed in: What's New?
We are very excited to announce the title of our 2014 production: Aboard the Raging Queen. We are also excited to announce our 2014 crowdfunding campaign. Click here to make a contribution today!Professional theater artists and community-based practitioners Tim Connell, Kevin Ray, and Sherry Teitelbaum are co-directing a devised play using the sights, sounds, and colorful characters we might see onboard a cruise ship as the point of inspiration.
Bridging the Gap, now in its fourth year, is a twelve-week intergenerational LGBTQ theater project, offered free to participants. During the course of weekly workshops held in Chelsea, group members collaborate to create an original 45-minute play through improvisation, group reflection, and revision. The show presents issues and ideas that matter to our participants. Group members also build theater skills, celebrate difference, challenge their assumptions about age and have fun!
PLEASE MAKE A CONTRIBUTION TO OUR CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN TODAY
Bridging the Gap offers a platform to amplify voices from within the LGBTQ population that are frequently ignored/not considered, from both ends of the age spectrum. This year our LGBTQ group members range in age from 18 to 90 years old! Their alternate perspectives are not the dominant voices we normally hear in LGBTQ discourse. For this reason we believe it is urgent to keep both our weekly workshops and our performance accessible by removing economic barriers to participation. In order for these programs to remain free, we need your support. Without it, we cannot pay for artists’ fees for the three co-directors, theater rental, costumes, props, sets and transportation. We need $4,600 to bring this project to the stage.You can help subsidize this vital community-based theater project by making your donation now. Read More...
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Session 3 Recap: Beginning the Playbuilding Process
Tuesday, October 14, 2014 Filed in: Session Recaps
by Kevin Ray
There are many ways to create an original show in tandem with ensemble members. As facilitators of Bridging the Gap, Tim Connell, Sherry Teitelbaum and I use a process that is sometimes called devised theater and other times called playbuilding. Through playbuilding, we use theater games and activities to generate ideas from group members. We watch the group to see which ideas are exciting them and then we support the group in developing those ideas into a show through improvisation and reflection.
As a starting point, the facilitation team presents a central idea that we hope will spark the group’s interest. In the past, we used an overarching theme as our point of departure. We worked with group members to make plays that explored themes such as the generation gap, love, and food.
This year, we began the process with a new kind of starting point to offer returning group members a fresh change of pace and to give ourselves as facilitators a new challenge. Rather than starting with a theme, we started with a
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There are many ways to create an original show in tandem with ensemble members. As facilitators of Bridging the Gap, Tim Connell, Sherry Teitelbaum and I use a process that is sometimes called devised theater and other times called playbuilding. Through playbuilding, we use theater games and activities to generate ideas from group members. We watch the group to see which ideas are exciting them and then we support the group in developing those ideas into a show through improvisation and reflection.
As a starting point, the facilitation team presents a central idea that we hope will spark the group’s interest. In the past, we used an overarching theme as our point of departure. We worked with group members to make plays that explored themes such as the generation gap, love, and food.
This year, we began the process with a new kind of starting point to offer returning group members a fresh change of pace and to give ourselves as facilitators a new challenge. Rather than starting with a theme, we started with a
Read More...