Burning Coal Theatre Company teams up with the First Baptist Churches of Salisbury and Wilmington Streets in downtown Raleigh to present a play, “Two Buildings/One Heart: 200 Years of the First Baptists Churches of Raleigh” from Friday through Sunday, March 2 through 4. Performances will begin at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 2, and Saturday, March 3, and at 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 3, and Sunday, March 4. The first two performances will begin at the First Baptist Church located at 99 North Salisbury St. and the final two performances will begin at the First Baptist Church located at 109 S. Wilmington St. All performances are $10, and tickets may be purchased by calling (919) 834-4001. For more information, visit the website at www.burningcoal.org.
About the show
Raleigh was only 20 years old when First Baptist Church was established in 1812 with 23 members: 14 African-American and nine white. Burning Coal Theatre will explore the history of the church and the two congregations it became after the Civil War in a play to be performed Friday through Sunday, March 2 through 4, in the sanctuaries of the two churches, both of which face Capitol Square.
“Two Buildings/One Heart: 200 Years of the First Baptist Churches of Raleigh,” written by Burning Coal Education Director Ian Finley—along with Jerome Davis and Rebecca Wyrick—will bring together Burning Coal actors and a choir of singers from both congregations to tell the story of the churches’ origin and key moments from their histories.
Jerome Davis, artistic director of Burning Coal Theatre Company, said “When the two churches approached us about this, my eyes lit up! I couldn’t think of a more inherently dramatic or worthwhile story to tell. Working with these two congregations has been terrific, and getting to know more about their past histories has been a truly rewarding experience for me.”
Playwright Ian Finley (2012 Piedmont Laureate) was similarly thrilled with the prospect: “The storied history of the churches, spanning 200 years, was a natural fit for dramatization, especially when framed in the actual church buildings themselves.”
Four performances are scheduled. On Friday evening at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 2 p.m., the play will start in the sanctuary at 99 North Salisbury St. The 7 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday performances will begin in the sanctuary at 109 S. Wilmington St. At each performance, the audience will move to the other church at intermission.
Tickets are $10 and can be reserved by calling Burning Coal at (919) 834-4001.
Burning Coal Theatre Company is Raleigh's small, professional theater. Burning Coal is an incorporated, non-profit [501 (c) (3)] organization. Burning Coal's mission is to produce literate, visceral, affecting theater that is experienced, not simply seen. Burning Coal produces explosive reexaminations of overlooked classic and modern plays, as well as new plays, whose themes and issues are of immediate concern to our audience, using the best local, national and international artists available. We work toward a theater of high-energy performances and minimalist production values. The emphasis is on literate works that are felt and experienced viscerally, unlike more traditional linear plays, at which audiences are most often asked to observe without participating. Race and gender non-specific casting is an integral component of our perspective, as well as an international viewpoint.
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Friday, February 24, 2012
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Burning Coal Theatre Company holds 'Embodied Shakespeare Intensive' class
Burning Coal Theatre Company will present OBIE award-winning actor/director Randolph Curtis Rand’s Embodied Shakespeare Intensive on Saturday, Feb. 18, from noon to 4 pm at Burning Coal’s rehearsal warehouse, 3056 Barrow Drive in Raleigh. The class is $75. To register, call (919) 834-4001.
About the class
Embodied Shakespeare is an exciting, bold and simple approach to Shakespeare. The aim of the class is to provide students with a personal, direct and visceral response to the texts. This class will give simple, powerful exercises that will make the text breath, live and move.
Using text from (primarily) Hamlet, this class combines the training Rand had with masters such as Cicely Barry, Kristen Linklater, Tina Packer, Patrick Tucker and Louis Scheeder as well as studies of the work of John Barton, Bertram Joseph, Harley Granville-Barker and Helge Kökeritz—all filtered through his own approach to physical performance.
About Randolph Curtis Rand
Randy is currently appearing as Don Quixote in Burning Coal Theatre Company’s Man of La Mancha. He is an Obie (Off-Broadway) Award-winning theater artist from New York City. His work encompasses choreography, design, directing, dramaturgy, performing, teaching and writing.
In New York, he was a founding member of two influential theater companies; Arden Party and The Drama Dept., which he began with artists like Douglas Carter Beane, Cynthia Nixon and John Cameron Mitchell. He has worked in New York and throughout the country with Joseph Chaikin, Douglas Dunn, Elevator Repair Service, Richard Foreman, Meredith Monk, Pig Iron Theatre, Darko Tresnjak, Rude Mechs and the Wooster Group and at institutions like Actors Theatre of Louisville, Jacob’s Pillow, The Kennedy Center, La Mama ETC, On the Boards, The Orlando Shakespeare Theater, The Public Theater, Shakespeare Santa Monica and The Walker Arts Center. Internationally, he has appeared at festivals such as The Adelaide Festival (Australia), Art Carnuntum (Vienna), The Meltdown Festival (London), as well as in Amsterdam, Glasgow, Lisbon, Rome and others. He is a founding member of Attic Salt Performance Society in Vancouver BC.
He has taught/directed at institutions like NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, NYU Graduate Acting Program, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The New School, Epic Theatre Ensemble, The Hanger Theatre, Naropa University, Shakespeare Santa Monica, Swarthmore College, Theatre for a New Audience, The University of the Arts, The University of Kentucky and The University of Tennessee. From 2004 to 2007, he was lead theatre teacher at The North Carolina Governor’s School.
Burning Coal Theatre Company is Raleigh's small, professional theatre. Burning Coal is an incorporated, non-profit [501 (c) (3)] organization with a mission to produce literate, visceral, affecting theatre that is experienced, not simply seen.
About the class
Embodied Shakespeare is an exciting, bold and simple approach to Shakespeare. The aim of the class is to provide students with a personal, direct and visceral response to the texts. This class will give simple, powerful exercises that will make the text breath, live and move.
Using text from (primarily) Hamlet, this class combines the training Rand had with masters such as Cicely Barry, Kristen Linklater, Tina Packer, Patrick Tucker and Louis Scheeder as well as studies of the work of John Barton, Bertram Joseph, Harley Granville-Barker and Helge Kökeritz—all filtered through his own approach to physical performance.
About Randolph Curtis Rand
Randy is currently appearing as Don Quixote in Burning Coal Theatre Company’s Man of La Mancha. He is an Obie (Off-Broadway) Award-winning theater artist from New York City. His work encompasses choreography, design, directing, dramaturgy, performing, teaching and writing.
In New York, he was a founding member of two influential theater companies; Arden Party and The Drama Dept., which he began with artists like Douglas Carter Beane, Cynthia Nixon and John Cameron Mitchell. He has worked in New York and throughout the country with Joseph Chaikin, Douglas Dunn, Elevator Repair Service, Richard Foreman, Meredith Monk, Pig Iron Theatre, Darko Tresnjak, Rude Mechs and the Wooster Group and at institutions like Actors Theatre of Louisville, Jacob’s Pillow, The Kennedy Center, La Mama ETC, On the Boards, The Orlando Shakespeare Theater, The Public Theater, Shakespeare Santa Monica and The Walker Arts Center. Internationally, he has appeared at festivals such as The Adelaide Festival (Australia), Art Carnuntum (Vienna), The Meltdown Festival (London), as well as in Amsterdam, Glasgow, Lisbon, Rome and others. He is a founding member of Attic Salt Performance Society in Vancouver BC.
He has taught/directed at institutions like NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, NYU Graduate Acting Program, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The New School, Epic Theatre Ensemble, The Hanger Theatre, Naropa University, Shakespeare Santa Monica, Swarthmore College, Theatre for a New Audience, The University of the Arts, The University of Kentucky and The University of Tennessee. From 2004 to 2007, he was lead theatre teacher at The North Carolina Governor’s School.
Burning Coal Theatre Company is Raleigh's small, professional theatre. Burning Coal is an incorporated, non-profit [501 (c) (3)] organization with a mission to produce literate, visceral, affecting theatre that is experienced, not simply seen.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Burning Coal Theatre Company presents Exploring Shakespeare
Burning Coal Theatre Company in Raleigh presents an eight-session class on acting and enjoying Shakespeare, taught by Burning Coal Education Director Ian Finley. Get up on your feet and explore the Bard’s language.
The class is suitable for anyone interested in Shakespeare, and no previous acting experience is necessary.
The class runs Monday nights Feb. 6 through March 26 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Cost is $155, including all texts.
For more information or to reserve a space, call (919) 834-4001 or visit the website.
The class is suitable for anyone interested in Shakespeare, and no previous acting experience is necessary.
The class runs Monday nights Feb. 6 through March 26 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Cost is $155, including all texts.
For more information or to reserve a space, call (919) 834-4001 or visit the website.
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Audition for Burning Coal Theatre Company's 'Across the Holy Tell'
Burning Coal Theatre Company will hold an audition on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012, from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Murphey School, 224 Polk Street in Raleigh, for a staged reading of June Guralnick’s "Across the Holy Tell," directed by Jonathan McCarter. Actors interested in auditioning should email coalartisticdir@ncrrbiz.com to obtain an audition slot and a copy of sides. Actors should bring two copies of their picture resume, if available.
About the playwright
Native New Yorker June Guralnick is the author of 11 full-length plays and various other fiction and non-fiction works. Her plays have been performed at venues including the Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.), New Federal Theatre (NYC), Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre (NC), and the North Carolina Museum of Art. Past positions include National Endowment for the Arts Theatre Administration Fellows, Executive Director of the City of Raleigh Arts Commission and Theatre Arts Director of the North Carolina Arts Council. Most recently, Guralnick was appointed director of the Theatre Arts Program at Guilford Technical Community College. Awards and grants include the Silver Medal-Pinter Drama Review Prize, North Carolina Arts Council Literature Fellowship, Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre New Plays Winner, United Arts Council of Wake County Artist Grant, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation: America Creates for the Millenium Finalist, Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writer at Appalachian State University, Tennessee Williams Scholar at the University of the South Sewanee Writers’ Conference and Tar Heel of the Week (by the News & Observer). She is a member of the Dramatists' Guild of America and the Playwrights Center (Minneapolis).
About the director
Jonathan McCarter has worked in the theatrical field as an actor; director; playwright; stage manager; set, light and sound designer; producer; instructor; and arts administrator. Until August 2011, he was the artistic director of Jonesborough Repertory Theatre. Prior to that, he was director of education and outreach for Opera Memphis. In 2004, he received his BFA in performance theatre from University of Memphis. McCarter currently is call center manager for North Carolina Theatre and is assistant directing "Jude the Obscure Parts I & II" at Burning Coal.
Character breakdown
Below is a breakdown of the characters. Please determine in advance which character or characters for which you would like to be considered.
CHRISTINE: American soldier (Caucasian), late 20s/early 30s. Devout Catholic raised in New York. Her father (a fireman) killed in 9-11. Married to Joe with one daughter, Mary.
JOE: Christine's husband (Caucasian) in his early 30s. Loves motorcycles, video games, and his mother in that order. Works for ATF as a computer specialist.
MARY: Christine and Joe's 11-year old autistic daughter (casting age range 11 to 15). Although limited in language skills, Mary has extraordinary artistic skills.
MONA: Iraqi botanist in her 30s from a distinguished Baghdad family. She works part-time as a translator for a peace-keeping group and has one daughter, Yazmin.
YAZMIN: Mona’s 13-year old deaf daughter (casting age range 12-17 years old). Yazmin has an effervescent personality and loves to blog.
CHORUS: Four men and two women, age range 18-45. In the first act they are soldiers, children and a teacher and in Act II, they are pilgrims, children, a teacher, and Osama bin Laden.
About the playwright
Native New Yorker June Guralnick is the author of 11 full-length plays and various other fiction and non-fiction works. Her plays have been performed at venues including the Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.), New Federal Theatre (NYC), Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre (NC), and the North Carolina Museum of Art. Past positions include National Endowment for the Arts Theatre Administration Fellows, Executive Director of the City of Raleigh Arts Commission and Theatre Arts Director of the North Carolina Arts Council. Most recently, Guralnick was appointed director of the Theatre Arts Program at Guilford Technical Community College. Awards and grants include the Silver Medal-Pinter Drama Review Prize, North Carolina Arts Council Literature Fellowship, Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre New Plays Winner, United Arts Council of Wake County Artist Grant, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation: America Creates for the Millenium Finalist, Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writer at Appalachian State University, Tennessee Williams Scholar at the University of the South Sewanee Writers’ Conference and Tar Heel of the Week (by the News & Observer). She is a member of the Dramatists' Guild of America and the Playwrights Center (Minneapolis).
About the director
Jonathan McCarter has worked in the theatrical field as an actor; director; playwright; stage manager; set, light and sound designer; producer; instructor; and arts administrator. Until August 2011, he was the artistic director of Jonesborough Repertory Theatre. Prior to that, he was director of education and outreach for Opera Memphis. In 2004, he received his BFA in performance theatre from University of Memphis. McCarter currently is call center manager for North Carolina Theatre and is assistant directing "Jude the Obscure Parts I & II" at Burning Coal.
Character breakdown
Below is a breakdown of the characters. Please determine in advance which character or characters for which you would like to be considered.
CHRISTINE: American soldier (Caucasian), late 20s/early 30s. Devout Catholic raised in New York. Her father (a fireman) killed in 9-11. Married to Joe with one daughter, Mary.
JOE: Christine's husband (Caucasian) in his early 30s. Loves motorcycles, video games, and his mother in that order. Works for ATF as a computer specialist.
MARY: Christine and Joe's 11-year old autistic daughter (casting age range 11 to 15). Although limited in language skills, Mary has extraordinary artistic skills.
MONA: Iraqi botanist in her 30s from a distinguished Baghdad family. She works part-time as a translator for a peace-keeping group and has one daughter, Yazmin.
YAZMIN: Mona’s 13-year old deaf daughter (casting age range 12-17 years old). Yazmin has an effervescent personality and loves to blog.
CHORUS: Four men and two women, age range 18-45. In the first act they are soldiers, children and a teacher and in Act II, they are pilgrims, children, a teacher, and Osama bin Laden.
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