Dance on Bones by Dave White at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, April - May 2018.
The Trojan Women by Euripides, adapted by John Barton & Kenneth Cavander at Walnut Hill School for The Arts. July 2017. (Photos by Mark Krawczyk)
Tongues & Savage/Love by Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaikin at Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Presented as part of the BFA in Contemporary Theater Freshman Showcase. Boston, MA, April 28th & 29th, 2017 (Photos by Mark Krawczyk)
Photos from Sam Shepard's and Joseph Chaikin's plays about voices and love at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, done as a part of the freshman showcase in the BFA for Contemporary Theater. Performed April 28th and 29th, 2017. Dress rehearsal photos from April 27th, 2017. Photos by Mark Krawczyk.
Directed by Mark Krawczyk
Music by Akili Jamal Haynes
Stage Managed by Bridget Anderson
Ensemble:
Atlee Jensen
Susanne McDonald
Luis A. Mendoza
Hannah Taragan
Victor Ventricelli
Galiya Zhangbyrshy
Poster design by Luis A. Mendoza
DESCRIPTION:
Freshman students of Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s B.F.A. in Contemporary Theater program present two works by Sam Shepard, Tongues and Savage/Love, directed by Mark Krawczyk in collaboration with the ensemble. Mysterious and lyrical, Tongues and Savage/Love comprise the culminating project for the freshman contemporary theater class as they implement a year's worth of training in experimental theater techniques. These astonishing theatre pieces show the inexhaustible gifts of writer Sam Shepard, and the burgeoning talent of these young performers.
DIRECTOR’S NOTE:
Hello!
Directing, or acting in a piece like the performance you are about to view can feel like a daunting task at first glance. The texts of Tongues and Savage/Love read less like standard play scripts, and more like lyric and epic poetry. One can feel “blocked” instantly. So we began our devising process with a few simple precepts.
- A body enters a space.
- Another one joins it.
- They come together.
- All processes are ignited.
It’s as basic a process as it is powerful. It addresses the biggest problem in all of the theater; “the first encounter.” In our process there were many first encounters. The first encounter with the text, with each other, with ourselves, with various ghosts, with our surroundings, and now...with you.
The actors you are about to see have come together as one ensemble to encounter the world of Sam Shepard’s and Joseph Chaikin’s two scripts as one unified performance, but not simply to inhabit a fantastical world conjured up within a playwright’s imagination, or a fantasy the actors wish to create. They are bravely engaging the complex beauty of these texts, and our world, both as they are, around the globe writ large, in their communities, and in this room tonight. They are encountering you, and you them.
Their bodies have entered the space. Yours have joined them. We come together. We ignite each others’ processes.
Welcome.
Directed by Mark Krawczyk
Music by Akili Jamal Haynes
Stage Managed by Bridget Anderson
Ensemble:
Atlee Jensen
Susanne McDonald
Luis A. Mendoza
Hannah Taragan
Victor Ventricelli
Galiya Zhangbyrshy
Poster design by Luis A. Mendoza
DESCRIPTION:
Freshman students of Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s B.F.A. in Contemporary Theater program present two works by Sam Shepard, Tongues and Savage/Love, directed by Mark Krawczyk in collaboration with the ensemble. Mysterious and lyrical, Tongues and Savage/Love comprise the culminating project for the freshman contemporary theater class as they implement a year's worth of training in experimental theater techniques. These astonishing theatre pieces show the inexhaustible gifts of writer Sam Shepard, and the burgeoning talent of these young performers.
DIRECTOR’S NOTE:
Hello!
Directing, or acting in a piece like the performance you are about to view can feel like a daunting task at first glance. The texts of Tongues and Savage/Love read less like standard play scripts, and more like lyric and epic poetry. One can feel “blocked” instantly. So we began our devising process with a few simple precepts.
- A body enters a space.
- Another one joins it.
- They come together.
- All processes are ignited.
It’s as basic a process as it is powerful. It addresses the biggest problem in all of the theater; “the first encounter.” In our process there were many first encounters. The first encounter with the text, with each other, with ourselves, with various ghosts, with our surroundings, and now...with you.
The actors you are about to see have come together as one ensemble to encounter the world of Sam Shepard’s and Joseph Chaikin’s two scripts as one unified performance, but not simply to inhabit a fantastical world conjured up within a playwright’s imagination, or a fantasy the actors wish to create. They are bravely engaging the complex beauty of these texts, and our world, both as they are, around the globe writ large, in their communities, and in this room tonight. They are encountering you, and you them.
Their bodies have entered the space. Yours have joined them. We come together. We ignite each others’ processes.
Welcome.
