The dramaturg's job is to read between the lines and enhance a script with specificity and accuracy. This 1-night workshop will teach you to watch and read a play from the perspective of a dramaturg and see what you've been missing. For our upcoming production of Charles Busch's Ibsen's Ghost: An Irresponsible Biographical Fantasy, you will read the script and watch the production in advance of class and then delve into the work with Primary Stages Artistic Director Erin Daley. With your eyes opened, you'll be able to incorporate dramaturgical practice into your work as a writer, actor, or director.
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About Charles Busch's Ibsen's Ghost
The play Ibsen never wrote - but with more laughs and a happy ending!
Shortly after the death of celebrated playwright Henrik Ibsen, his widow Suzannah receives word that her husband's former protégée is in town peddling a libelous diary exposing the playwright's misdeeds. Enlisting help from her sharp-witted stepmother, Ibsen's long-lost illegitimate son, a servant girl with a wayward pelvis, and an enigmatic rodent exterminator known as the Rat Wife, Suzannah sets out to preserve her husband's legacy by any means necessary.
Written by and starring the legendary Charles Busch, Ibsen's Ghost tells a tall (and hilarious) tale of the toll a great man's ghost takes on the women at the soul of his work.
REGISTRATION AND SCHEDULE
Instructor: Erin Daley (Artistic Director, Primary Stages)
Thursday, March 28
6:00pm – 8:00pm ET
All tickets will be provided for students. Upon registration, we will provide you with a link to select your performance date.
About the online platform for this class:
Zoom Meeting is easy to start, join, and use to collaborate online in a personable way via desktop or mobile without complicated set-ups. The Zoom Meeting Host (your ESPA instructor or administrator) sends out a meeting link and at the time of your class, you just click the link to launch the virtual classroom via your web browser. In the Zoom Meeting, each participant can share their webcam so that you're not only hearing your instructor and classmates but seeing them too, making it feel similar to being in one of the studios at ESPA. Other exciting collaborative Zoom features include Breakout Rooms in which students can meet in smaller groups, "Raise Your Hand" feature to better facilitate balanced conversation, Video Sharing, and File Transfer for your assignments. If you can't log in via a computer, there are also options to phone into the meeting so you can still participate in the class even if you find yourself without computer or internet access. And Zoom has an Apple and Android app, making it possible to take part in class from any device.
Erin Daley
SCHEDULE
Thursday, March 28
LOCATION
Online!
PRICING
Returning Students: $40
New Students: $40
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FOR MORE INFO
Learn more about How It Works. For more information, please call 212.840.9705 or email espa@primarystages.org.