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Sara Weinstock teaches Theatre at NOVA Annandale. She has an MFA in Theatre from UC San Diego.

Fall 2018 Theatre production

In October 1998, Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, severely beaten and left to die, tied to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming.  Five weeks later, Moisés Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie, and over the course of the next year, conducted more than 200 interviews with people of the town.  From these interviews they wrote the play The Laramie Project, a chronicle of the life of the town of Laramie in the year after the murder.

This fall, to honor the the 20th anniversary of the death of Matthew Shepherd, we plan to present The Laramie Project. 

Instructor Sara Weinstock and student Jeremy Pritchard will co-direct.

Auditions will take place September 24-25 from 4pm-6pm in CC 115. Rehearsals will begin September 26.

The show will run November 8-11.

If you’re interested, keep your schedule open from 4pm-6:30pm Monday-Thursdays from September 24-November 11.

FOUR WEDDINGS AND AN ELVIS

Our spring play, FOUR WEDDINGS AND AN ELVIS, was a great success and a lot of fun! MANY THANKS to the hardworking cast and crew who made it such a great production!

Act One – The Payback
Act One – The Payback
Act Two – The Comeback
Act Three – The Real Thing
The Epilogue

SCENE NIGHT – December 8, 7pm in CC 115

Students perform a scene on the steps of CF during Liberal Arts Week 2017
Student performs a monologue during Liberal Arts Week 2017
Student performs a monologue during Liberal Arts Week 2017

Scenes, monologues, songs, original works, lip synch – no limit on type of content

No hate speech or wildly inappropriate content. Doesn’t need to be G-rated, but let’s stay away from Hard R

Max length – 10 minutes

Email SaraWeinstock NO LATER THAN DECEMBER 1 if you want to participate. I’ll need the title of the play and names of the participants so I can program the event. sweinstock@nvcc.edu

If you’re not participating, come out to support!

NOVA Theatre Society

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Are you interested in getting involved in theatre on the Annandale campus and meeting some like-minded students? Join the NOVA Theatre Society. They meet Thursdays at 3pm in CC 107. For more information, you can join the NOVA Theatre Society Facebook group.

 

WAR OF THE WORLDS October 2017
WAR OF THE WORLDS October 2017
WAR OF THE WORLDS October 2017

NOVA Annandale Theatre Course Offerings

CST 130 INTRO TO THEATRE

  • Surveys the principles of drama, the development of theatre production, and selected plays to acquaint the student with various types of theatrical presentations.
  • CST 130 is a hybrid course
  • CST 130 SATISFIES A HUMANITIES / FINE ARTS ELECTIVE

CST 131 ACTING I / CST 132 ACTING II

  • Develops personal resources and explores performance skills through such activities as theatre games, role playing, improvisation, work on basic script units and performance of scenes. Gives the student both a physical and mental understanding of the various approaches to acting.
  • In addition to script analysis and character study, students will perform a radio play, reader’s theatre, a monologue, a scene, a poetry reading and a lip synch competition.
  • If you’ve taken CST 131 and want to continue studying acting, you can enroll in CST 132. CST 132 covers classical acting styles beginning with Greek through Restoration periods, so scenes and monologues will be selected from period plays.
  • CST 131/CST 132 is a 12-week class that runs Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 1:00-4:05pm