Lumina Studio

Overview
OPEN REGISTRATION FOR: FALL 2008 SESSION WILL BEGIN ON MAY 2, 2008!
SHOGUN CAESAR by William Shakespeare

Our rehearsals, workshops, performances, and summerstock theatre camps are based on Steiner's Creative Speech and Drama techniques. These time-tested methods are excellent tools for both fledgling and experienced actors to develop or enhance their dramatic skills in articulation, creating images with language, character development and text analysis. These techniques are studied and applied initially in improvisation then, after scripts are received, to the various aspects of the production: blocking, staging, scene study, and performance methods. For the advanced acting and directing classes there will be additional time spent on directing skills: conceptualizing a script, creating stage pictures, coaching, and assisting the direction of the different elements of a production.

It is our mission to give Lumina actors a professional theatre experience, with the inestimable benefits of working with elevated language and great scripts. For all actors we strive to instill a sense of pride in attempting to perfect one’s role whatever the size. All actors who enroll for the session will be allocated a role and will be given the opportunity to perform if they meet the attendance and memorization requirements. We expect each actor to give their best effort to the role they are assigned.

We are primarily a classic theatre company believing that the imaginative power, technical sophistication, and grace of classical and Shakespearean language and characters gives the practitioner the best that dramatic literature has to offer. We approach each session and each session's production as a creative project to which we totally devote ourselves. This means an exciting adventure for the actors such as they may have never experienced before. It also means hard work! Fun work, exciting work, but hard work.

We strongly believe in the old truth that you get out of something what you put into it. We demand a lot from ourselves as directors and set our standards high as we attempt as artists to bring something wonderful and new into the world. We invite our Lumina actors to go on this journey with us as young artists, but we expect them to make a commitment. If they do they will be giving a rare gift to themselves that will last a lifetime.