Salamander Shakespeare Co. - Act for Credit!
Opportunity for internship credits
Salamander Theatre offers an intensive practice-based research project for actors in the Salamander Shakespeare Company. Working exclusively from folio texts the approach Salamander takes is academic in nature with its commitment to investigating every aspect of Shakespearean text and performance practices. This unique training programme combines theatre research with theatre practice and can be used for academic credit. This programme includes intensive acting coaching, fight workshops, and voice training, during the rehearsal schedule. Performances are held in some of Ottawa’s premier theatres including the Fourth Stage at the National Arts Centre and the show opens at the Ottawa Fringe Festival. An exciting and demanding outdoor performance schedule of 22 shows takes place from the end of June to the end of July. This year’s show will be Romeo and Juliet.
Entrance is by audition held in Ottawa, and Toronto, although group auditions can also be arranged by interested students on individual campuses. Audition dates for the 2010 company are November 14, 2009 in Ottawa, November 15, 2009 in Toronto.
The focus of an independent study for academic credit must be arranged by the student in consultation with their university, and might include Shakespearean acting styles, performance-making strategies, rehearsal techniques, audience response, spectatorship and actor-audience relationships, challenges of site specific staging, issues of authenticity in performance (from music to costumes to accent, etc.), the material cultures of production, and how the city is performed. Above all we continually recognise and return to the importance of how and where performances take place.
The intensive costs $700 per actor. There is bursary help available, and actors have also been able to find support from their home towns in previous years. Salamander Theatre artists have extensive academic and professional training in all aspects of theatre and production
