August 11, 2011
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Audience members planning to see Chautauqua Theater Company’s production of William Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost” can get an inside look during this afternoon’s Brown Bag lunch.
Artistic Director Vivienne Benesch said today’s event will be a “full-cast experience” that will include the play’s director, Ethan McSweeny, 14 conservatory members, four designers and three guest actors.
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August 10, 2011
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Many people approach William Shakespeare’s plays apprehensively because they find the text difficult to interpret. This is precisely why Fred Zirm is working to decode the Bard’s language this week in a Special Studies course “Shakespeare Fast and Easy: Love’s Labour’s Lost.”
With Chautauqua Theater Company opening Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost” on Thursday, Zirm said he felt it was the perfect time to teach adults about Shakespearean text.
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August 9, 2011
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With only a few weeks remaining in the 2011 Season, Chautauqua Theater Company unveils what has become its annual, end-of-season, all-conservatory Shakespeare production with a preview of “Love’s Labour’s Lost” at 8 p.m. tonight at Bratton Theater. The play opens at 6 p.m. Thursday and runs through Aug. 19.
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August 9, 2011
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Those who have seen the posters around the grounds for Chautauqua Theater Company’s production of William Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost” may have noticed something familiar about its main image. It is the Athenaeum Hotel, which has played a significant role in the design of CTC’s final production of the 2011 Season.
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August 9, 2011
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While rehearsals carry on and actors prepare for their roles in William Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” the Chautauqua Theater Company costume shop is hard at work constructing the looks for the 14 conservatory members and three guest artists who will be seen onstage beginning Wednesday night at the production’s preview.
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August 7, 2011
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Among this season’s actors, directors, carpenters and others who make up Chautauqua Theater Company are several that don’t take human form. They don’t recite lines, sew costumes or build sets, but these four-legged members of the company play a daily role in the lives of CTC. These are the dogs of Chautauqua Theater Company, and they spend a lot of time at the Brawdy Theater Studios with their human counterparts.
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August 6, 2011
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Chautauqua Theater Company doesn’t rest, even in the off-season.
This spring, the company took the show on the road, performing “Amadeus” at the Virginia Arts Festival with the Virginia Symphony and Chorus May 20 and 22.
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August 6, 2011
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Robert Chelimsky arrived on the Chautauqua grounds five years ago and was surprised at what he saw. He felt as though he was walking onto a college campus full of Victorian homes or, to put it another way, a little city.
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August 5, 2011
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Each summer, Chautauqua Theater Company draws artists from theater programs all around the country as faculty, guest artists and conservatory members. This season, the common bond for several CTC members is the Brown University/Trinity Repertory Company consortium.
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August 4, 2011
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Chautauqua Theater Company conservatory members will spend this afternoon’s Brown Bag lunch playing a variety of games onstage at Bratton Theater. The lunch, which begins at 12:15 p.m. today, is called “Brown Bag lunch: Games, Actors, Play” and requires that actors literally spend time playing.
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