Below please find a current outline of The Sixth Act’s 2010-2011 events. Please contact Maria Brandt, Sixth Act Director, at "mailto:mbrandt@monroecc.edu" with any questions and/or if you’d like to be involved. We hope to see you next year!
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THE SIXTH ACT
MCC’S AWARD-WINNING DRAMA INITIATIVE
Theories of Production Design: An Academic Workshop
Thursday, October 14, 4-5:30, Black Box Theater
Free and Open to the Public
This workshop will offer insight into the principles addressed by professional scenic, lighting, and costume designers. Audience members will participate in conversation and interactive activities and then will be invited to witness firsthand the transformative potential of professional design on a theatrical production. Light refreshments will be served.
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GEVA EVENT: This will be a special collaborative event with Geva Theatre. More information to come.
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Medicine Show: A Living Newspaper Event
Thursday-Saturday, March 10-12, 7:30 p.m., North Atrium
Free and Open to the Public
This staged reading of the 1939 Medicine Show will invite audience members to experience the political raucous pageantry of the living-newspaper plays popular in the 1930s. Focusing specifically on public health-care policies, the production will offer a searing glimpse into American social history while provoking debate over health-care issues in America today.
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Fourth Annual Student Playwriting Competition
Staged Reading and Awards Ceremony
Thursday, May 5, 7 p.m., Black Box Theater
Free and Open to the Public, Reservations Required
This competition encourages MCC students to write plays for an audience, to provide MCC students a competitive venue for their scripts, and to offer winning playwrights the opportunity to see their scripts performed and to receive constructive feedback for future play development. Scripts will be accepted for consideration beginning in September.
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Special Event
Student Logo Competition
This competition will encourage and reward students for designing an electronic logo for The Sixth Act to use on future promotional materials.
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Drama on Demand
Drama on Demand is an ongoing curriculum tool that brings student actors into literature classrooms, encouraging students to talk to each other across disciplines about theatre.
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Formed in 2004, The Sixth Act aims to broaden and deepen an interdisciplinary appreciation of drama at MCC and to connect MCC faculty, staff, and students with events in Rochester’s theatre community. It seeks as its leaders faculty, staff, and students drawn from a variety of academic disciplines and departments. For more information, please contact Maria Brandt at 585-292-3394 or "mailto:mbrandt@monroecc.edu".
The Sixth Act is supported by MCC’s Creative Arts Committee and Liberal Arts Division.
Maria Brandt
The Sixth Act
06/02/2010 |