SUMMER 2013
PRODUCTION WORKSHOP
A Six- Week Workshop for Serious Theater Students
Refine the Craft of Acting while work-shopping a new production of
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
July 9-August 18
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
10:00 am to 2:00 pm
$400
Performances
Saturday & Sunday, August 17 & 18
2:00 pm
For more information about the classes contact instructor Paul Ellis at 845-469-7563 and to register on line visit
www.airpirateradio.com/workshop
The six-week performance workshop program begins July 9 and takes place on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm in Sugar Loaf.
Throughout the summer students will be learning and refining the craft of acting while rehearsing a new production. This year the workshop will focus on William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
The theater process begins with the script. The playwright defines the structure of the play by answering the questions Who, What and Where. The characters in the play, the plot or story (including themes, style, etc.) and the time and place of the play are the concerns of the writer. This is done through dialog and relationships.
Once the actor understands who the people in the play are and what they have to do the question then becomes How and Why. Things like how a character lives and functions during the play and how the character walks and talks become the role of the actor. Motivation, emotion, rhythm, and psychology come to play in why a character does what he does.
This summer’s workshop is designed to answer the question of How and Why. Using William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for this workshop offers the students the perfect opportunity to answer these questions. “Midsummer is a classic for a reason and though the language, at first, may seem challenging it offers the perfect opportunity to study a script with no preconceptions. Because of the language we have to deeply understand how and why these characters do some of the craziest things that no one would normally do. It’s a fantasy but it’s also a very relevant story for young people,” said Paul Ellis director of the workshop.
For information call 845-469-7563
To register visit www.airpirateradio.com/pep/workshops/upcoming-workshops/
Performances are scheduled for August 17 & 18.
While trying to mind his own business Herb gets himself dragged into the underworld of espionage. By following the wrong guy in the right place for the wrong reasons our pint sized PI winds up the number one suspect in a murder he didn’t even know took place. With help of his loyal friend Smokestack El Ropo Herb brings it all to a neat but hysterical close.
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Air Pirates Herb Marks Freelance
On April 13 the Pirates present Time Wounds All Heels, which takes the diminutive detective Herb Marks into the bizarre world of cults and secret societies. The comedy-mystery begins as Herb is hired to locate the missing heir to a lingerie fortune.
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“Prairie Home Companion with a Bong” comes to NYC with Live Radio broadcasts
You Make the Noise at Air Pirate Radio Theater Event
On Saturday April 13th & 20th, 90 minutes before you hear those famous words “Live from New York it’s Saturday Night Live” you’ll hear “Live from New York it’s the Air Pirates.” Your chance of being in an SNL sketch is zero, but you’re guaranteed to be part of the Air Pirates broadcast, so skip Rockefeller Center, head straight uptown to the Underground Lounge and get on the show.
Here’s how it works …
The Hudson Valley’s finest homegrown ensemble begins with four actors portraying all the characters in original radio scripts and audiences making all the sound effects, crowd noise and any other noise we need. Prior to the performance the audience is auditioned and given all the necessary props and a review of what they are to do. The Cue Card Girl lets the audience know when it’s time to slam a door, make the footsteps and even shoot the guns (props, thank you) during the shows. The audience also supplies sound effects for the commercials in the broadcast.
A unique mash-up of old-time radio and stoner humor the Air Pirates have been called “A Prairie Home Companion with a bong”. The performances at the Underground Lounge on April 13 and 20 will be broadcast live on radio and over the Internet.
On April 13the Pirates present Time Wounds All Heels, which takes the diminutive detective Herb Marks into the bizarre world of cults and secret societies. The comedy-mystery begins as Herb is hired to locate the missing heir to a lingerie fortune. The following week, April 20, Make Me An Offer I Can Refuse, has Herb neck deep in “Family” matters when he’s hired to follow a philandering Mafia wife.
The Air Pirates Radio Theater cast includes MaryLee Shorr, Brian Nieves, Alan Andrews, Kate Brannan, & Lindsey Graham – and of course the audience.
The Air Pirates Radio Theater was voted the Best Theater Troupe in the Hudson Valley by the Times Herald Record Readers’ Poll for an unprecedented six years in a row. “Now it’s time to see what the Big City will do with Air Piracy. We know that there is a lot of noise across the river so The Air Pirates are going to capture it and broadcast it to the world.
The Air Pirate’s flagship station is WTBQ at 93.5FM broadcasts the performances live. Listeners can also go to the website http://www.airpirateradio.comto listen live or download the episodes. “We are heard in exotic places like England, Turkey and Texas,” said Paul Ellis Producer/Director. “If you’re looking for something different and are not afraid to be part of the action, The Air Pirates are ready for you to join the show.”
The Underground Lounge is at W 107th Street and West End at Broadway. All performances are at 10pm tickets are $15 plus a $15 food or drink minimum. For more information or for tickets call 845-469-7563 or visit online at www.airpirateradio.com/tickets.
The most important Pirate in any Air Pirate show is you. We give you the toys and you make the noise as our cue card girl lets you when. Each Air Pirate play is written to include audience members in the process of making a fully broadcast performance.
Audience member reaching for his prop
Why do this? The simple answer is for the fun of it but in actuality we are testing one of the primary tenants of live theater…Trust. Any production, whether it is Shakespeare or the most outrageous experimental play, requires that everyone trust that each person involved will do his/her job. It may sound simple when I say that all performers and audience members are free thinking human beings. That being true why do they do exactly what they are asked to do at any given moment? Trust. In rehearsal we take the time to build the trust between actors and directors, crew and designers and the production and audience.
We trust that Juliet will die at the end of the play because we all have instilled a responsibility in the actor to do so. Even though that actress may want to do something else we all trust she will do what was written and rehearsed.
Ready with the Bottle
The Air Pirates have extended that trust to the audience. By giving members of the audience the responsibility to make the appropriate sound at the appropriate time we have extended the trust required to achieve the goal of a performance. Without that trust our shows cannot go on as planned. Without you there is no Air Pirates….Trust me.
Make Me An Offer I Can Refuse, has Herb neck deep in “Family” matters when he’s hired to follow a philandering Mafia wife. This production was broadcast and recorded live from the Lycian Centre in Sugar Loaf, NY.
The Air Pirates Radio Theater cast include: MaryLee Shorr, Brian Nieves, Alan Andrews, Kate Brannan, & Lindsey Graham – and of course, the audience.
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