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Press
Release: Entity Theatre Workshop Presents The
Parting As its second
production of 2008, after Lovers at
Versailles, Entity presents a
stage adaptation of Tanika Gupta’s
radio play The Parting, directed by Heiner
Mohnen and produced by long-time group member Blair
Gaulton. Following each evening’s performance there
will be an opportunity to meet the director and the cast and crew during a
question-and-answer forum addressing the themes of the play. Performances
are on 24, 25 and 26 April 2008 at 7.30pm in the Europahalle of
the European School Munich, Elise-Aulinger-Str. 21
(U5 Therese-Giehse-Allee).
Tickets cost 8 euros, and 6 euros for students.
(With groups of 10 students one teacher is admitted free.) Free tickets to these
performances are provided for members of the press. Information and reservations
at info@entitytheatre.com or 0700 3684 8900. THE PLAY: Four
troubled men are stranded in the bar of a remote train station on the eve of
an elusive journey into the mountains. The old bartender unveils a secret
that binds them all together, but can they prevent the inevitable? The
Parting is Entity Theatre Workshop's official entry for the FEATS
2008 one-act competition in Stockholm (Festival of European Anglophone Theatrical
Societies, 9-12 May). THE AUTHOR: Tanika Gupta is a
British-Bengali writer and actor for theatre, television and radio. Nominated
for a 2004 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for her adaptation of Hobson's Choice at the Young Vic
Theatre, she has also worked for many other notable venues including the
National, Soho, Talawa, Birmingham Rep, Hampstead,
Clean Break, Theatre Royal Stratford East and the Royal Court, London. The Parting is one of her numerous
radio plays commissioned by the BBC. THE GROUP: Entity, founded by Danny
Strike and Alison Sandford in 1999, is committed to
the workshop principles of allowing participants time to develop, experiment,
and have fun. It is also an “audition-free zone”. Auditions don’t tell us
what we want to know about performers. For example, are they willing to
challenge their own talent? Can they work in a team? After attending
workshops, participants are invited to “commit” to performance and a play is
selected. Obviously acting skills – voice, spatial awareness, scene rhythms,
emotional logic, etc. – must also be developed in the course of the
rehearsals, but ENTITY never loses sight of the workshop principle, and
actors are encouraged to experiment within the evolving framework. This gives
ENTITY its unique dynamics. No performance is exactly the same as another.
Come back and you’ll see what we mean. In 2004,
Entity was awarded second place for its staging of James Saunders’s Games
at FEATS, the Festival of European Anglophone Theatrical Societies. In
addition to the current production, Entity has now put on eight full-length
plays and five one-acts. Please note: Entity acting
workshops will be starting again on the 27th May. These
workshops are held Tuesdays from 7:30pm to 10:00pm and are open to anyone
with a good command of English. For further information please check the
Entity website: www.entitytheatre.com. Press Release As of 3 April 2008 |
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