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Stage & ScreenEnter Stage WriteS10-D01
The Screenplay: Finish Your First DraftS10-D02
Stand-Up Comedy WorkshopS10-D03
Whose Class Is It Anyway? Comedy ImprovS10-D04
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Monthly Story SlamTues., May 15, 7-8:30 p.m. Lunch Break Book TalksHosted by Steve Huff Book Discussions at Valley ManorMay 16, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. The Culinary Reading and Discussion GroupHosted by Sandy Bosworth & Kathy Pottetti
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| Writers & Books, Rochester's community literary center, inspires and instructs over 25,000 people each year through a wide array of offerings in nearly every literary genre. Believing that the written and spoken word are central to our lives and culture, Writers & Books celebrates, promotes and works to make them available to all. Writers & Books is located at 740 University Avenue, near Atlantic Avenue in the Neighborhood of the Arts. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This course is for people who love to watch, read, and write plays. Sessions will be focused on the elements of storytelling for the theatre: how to create intriguing characters, structure conflict, propel the action and use visual images; the instructor will also cover use of technical elements such as stage space, sound, and lights. This workshop is meant to inspire, encourage, and inform both beginning and more experienced playwrights eager to learn and improve. The instructor will concentrate on writing, class discussion, and feedback.
Whether you want to revise a finished script, or develop an idea that you have yet to write, this class will provide the structure and feedback needed to help you finish that first draft of your feature length screenplay. We will help develop your ideas with class exercises that focus on plotting, structure, and characterization. Additionally, we will help you navigate your way through your story with group feedback and pitch sessions. 
Stand-up comedy is the art of writing jokes blended with the art of performing them. In this 6-week supportive experiential workshop students will learn the basics of comedy writing and performing. Students will develop original material outside of class and perform each week for one another in a supportive atmosphere. Some in-class writing exercises will take place. Material covered will include: types of humor, style, attitude, segues, A & B material, ad lib, microphone usage, juxtaposition joke writing, progressive comedy. The class will culminate with a show the final day of class. No experience necessary, beginners and pros welcome. Warning: class can get jovial Instructor is a former stand-up comic who has performed with Ellen DeGeneres, Robin Williams and Paula Poundstone.
Have you ever seen the television show “Whose Line is it Anyway?” and thought, “I’d like to do that”? Here’s your chance! Comedy improvisation is the art of plugging audience suggestions into specific theater-game formats with the result being at best hilarious and at the least entertaining. In this experiential workshop students will learn the craft of comedy improvisation through playing warm-up and group-building games, skill-building theater games and finally the improv sketches themselves. Students will learn in a supportive atmosphere designed for experienced and inexperienced improvisers, trusting and supporting their fellow players, learning how to ask the audience for suggestions and how to plug them into a scene, along with brief characterization, projection, and timing.