| | | Front Range Anthroposophical Café (FRAC)
On Friday, May 12, FRAC's guest speaker will be Laurie Portocarrero. Her presentation is titled, The Art of Acting, the Art of Being Human. Laurie describes it as an exploration of the dramatic arts as a tool for transformation of our relationship to our Selves, to the Other, and to our World.
Laurie is currently involved in the development of a theatrical production, Fire in the Temple, a historical retelling of the burning of the First Goetheanum. Written by Glen Williamson and produced by Anthropos Theater, Laurie has been an invaluable collaborator in the development of this play. Laurie and Glen have also been traveling around the United States together presenting excerpts of the play to rapt audiences in preparation for the first full-scale production in September 2023.
Date: Friday, May 12 Time: 6:30 PM MDT (UTC-6) Where: On Zoom
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| | | | | Laurie Portocarrero and Glen Williamson, with eurythmists Sea-Anna Vasilas and Zachary Dolphin, have been developing this play – through numerous revisions and staged readings – for several years. Now director John McManus will stage a full production, with a full cast, in September, 2023, in Copake and Spring Valley, NY, and in Kimberton Hills, PA, testing whether a wider tour is warranted. The director and playwright have been tightening the script to make it a dynamic performance. Recent readings of the script have drawn profound and encouraging responses and anticipation of the full production. These reading performances have taken place in Copake, and Hudson, NY, Beaver Run, PA, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, and Sacramento, CA, Boulder and Denver, CO, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.
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Laurie Portocarrero is an actor, storyteller, drama teacher and director. She received trainings in Chekhov acting, Spacial Dynamics, and speech. She has studied and taught movement, drama, and speech in the United States, Canada, Switzerland, and Australia. A long-time associate member of The Actors’ Ensemble, Walking the Dog Theater, and Threefold Mystery Drama Group, she has appeared in many productions ranging from Shakespeare to Thornton Wilder to Kahlil Gibran, as well as playing Maria in Rudolf Steiner’s four mystery dramas. Laurie tours widely in the United States, Canada, Switzerland, and the U.K, with Glen Williamson in their two-person pieces, including the original script, Fire in the Temple. She directs summer children’s camp, teaches drama and storytelling to academy students in special needs communities, and has taught drama in China to adults and children of all ages. She also directs a speech chorus, leads a Mystery Drama exploration group, helps to create festivals for the community, and gives workshops in community-building through the arts across the United States.
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| | | GLEN WILLIAMSON, a founding member in New York City of The Actors’ Ensemble and New Directions Theater, appeared in numerous productions with both companies. He currently plays multiple roles in the touring production of The Gospel of John with Walking the Dog Theater and the title role in Aeschylus Unbound, which Glen co-wrote with the late film star Mala Powers. He has given his one-man performances of Beat the Devil! Faust, the Whole Story, The Incarnation of the Logos: An Epic Tale of Christ’s Coming to Earth, Kaspar Hauser: The Open Secret of the Foundling Prince, and Kurt Vonnegut’s The Kid Nobody Could Handle and Who Am I This Time? throughout the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Germany, and Switzerland. He has toured throughout North America in The Refugees’ Tale, based on Goethe’s Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily, with Laurie Portocarrero. Glen’s performance of Beat the Devil! Faust, the Whole Story won the award for Best Adaptation at the United Solo Theater Festival off-Broadway in 2011. The off-Broadway run of Glen’s one-man play The Boy Who Saw True was chosen by Back Stage as one of the five best plays of 1992. Glen trained in the Michael Chekhov acting technique and at The Juilliard School and has acted with the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and the American Stage Festival in New Hampshire. Other appearances include Macbeth with Shakespeare Alive!, Sylvia by A. R. Gurney, Rudolf Steiner’s The Souls’ Awakening at the Goetheanum in Switzerland, storytelling with the Grupo de Euritmia de São Paulo in San Diego, and speaking poetry in a Camphill benefit concert at Carnegie Hall. |
| | | John McManus is a theater artist, originally from Australia, where he began his career studying Rudolf Steiner's creative speech and the Michael Chekhov acting technique. Later, he studied the voice and speech techniques of Patsy Rodenburg, Kristin Linklater, Catherine Fitzmaurice, and Louis Colaianni as well as eurythmy (an art of movement). He was the artistic director of Walking the Dog Theater and Shakespeare Alive! He gives workshops at the Michael Chekhov Association and the Herbert Berghof Studios in New York City. |
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