Learn How To Audition At Two-Day Workshop

Sun., Aug. 30, 1998

Nina Culver Correspondent

Auditions continue in the Spokane and Coeur d’Alene area as theater groups prepare for the 1998-99 season. For those new at the auditioning game, the Lake City Playhouse in Coeur d’Alene will offer a two-day workshop on the most effective way to audition.

The workshop, led by Troy Nickerson and Thara Cooper, will be at 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday at the Harding Family Center, 411 N. 15th.

Adults and children will learn what is considered appropriate audition material, what kind of music is best to use and what directors look for.

Participants should come with one piece of sheet music no more than two minutes in length, appropriate for a musical comedy audition.

Cost of the workshop is $20. For an application, call the Playhouse at (208) 667-1323.

Spokane Civic Theatre will hold auditions for Steven Dietz’s “Lonely Planet” at 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday in the Firth Chew Studio Theatre, 1020 N. Howard.

Director Diana Trotter needs two adult men for the play, which will be staged Oct. 16 through Nov. 7.

Civic Theatre will also offer a class for deaf students to learn to act at 10:30 each Saturday, beginning Oct. 4. It’s open to those 8 and older,

Registration begins Friday.

Students will learn the fundamentals of acting and performance using theater games and exercises designed for deaf and hard-of-hearing actors.

The class is offered in cooperation with the Eastern Washington Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Cost of the 10-week class is $50.

Registration forms are available at the Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, 1206 N. Howard, and Civic Theatre. For more information, call the center at 328-9220 (voice), or 328-3772 (TDD), or the theater at 325-1413.

WSU open house, exhibit

Hasaan Kirkland, a Washington State University fine arts graduate student, will have his work displayed at the open house in WSU’s African American Student Center and Talmadge Anderson Heritage House at 6 p.m. Monday.

His work will be on display through September.

Kirkland has also painted a permanent mural, titled “Mask of Education: The Game Face,” on the walls of the student center.

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