RC students present an original play that has been conceived, written, and rehearsed within the past 24 hours.
Monthly open mike storytelling competition sponsored by The Moth, the NYC-based nonprofit storytelling organization that also produces a weekly public radio show. Each month 10 storytellers are selected at random from among those who sign up to tell a 3-5 minute story on the monthly theme. The 3 judges are recruited from the audience. Monthly winners compete in a semiannual Grand Slam. Space limited, so it’s smart to arrive early.
Note: Beginning in August, the Storyslam is held twice a month, on the 1st & 3rd Tuesdays.
7:30-9 p.m. (doors open and sign-up begins at 6 p.m.), The Circus, 210 S. First. $10. 764-5118.
RC students perform Melissa Ross’ 2011 Off-Broadway drama about a dysfunctional family reunion. The 3 children of a broken and dying man quarrel with each other and with the world in a self-confounding effort to rediscover lost family connections. Also Saturday, same time and place.
RC students perform Melissa Ross’ 2011 Off-Broadway drama about a dysfunctional family reunion. The 3 children of a broken and dying man quarrel with each other and with the world in a self-confounding effort to rediscover lost family connections. Also Fiday, same time and place.
Brutally Honest Storytelling Open Mic is a live storytelling event where the audience is free to be real as they want to be. No experience necessary. New storytellers or experienced storytellers – everyone has stories. OR just come to listen, that’s okay too!
Stories have a 5 minute time limits. Notes are okay!
Hosted by Shannon Cason (The Moth, Snap Judgment, RISK!, WBEZ’s Homemade Stories). Shannon is a host, MainStage storyteller and GrandSlam champion with The Moth. He is a regular on RISK! and NPR’s Snap Judgment. Shannon also hosts his own storytelling podcast with WBEZ Chicago called Shannon Cason’s Homemade Stories. He is a husband, father, and from Detroit.
The Blind Pig, 208 N. First St. Ann Arbor, MI 48104. $7 (age 20 & under, $10).patriciarwheeler@gmail.com http://www.shannoncason.com/
Monthly open mike storytelling competition sponsored by The Moth, the NYC-based nonprofit storytelling organization that also produces a weekly public radio show. Each month 10 storytellers are selected at random from among those who sign up to tell a 3-5 minute story on the monthly theme. The 3 judges are recruited from the audience. Monthly winners compete in a semiannual Grand Slam. Space limited, so it’s smart to arrive early.
Note: Beginning in August, the Storyslam is held twice a month, on the 1st & 3rd Tuesdays.
7:30-9 p.m. (doors open and sign-up begins at 6 p.m.), The Circus, 210 S. First. $10. 764-5118.
U-M Residential College drama lecturer Kate Mendeloff directs RC students in Terminal 3 (5 p.m. Fri. & noon Sun.), a sparse drama set in a hospital waiting room where a young couple is there to welcome the birth of their first baby and a middle-age couple is there to identify their dead son.
Part of sttaged readings of Marita Lindholm Gochman’s translations of 3 plays by this celebrated contemporary writer, widely recognized as the greatest Swedish playwright since Strindberg. The readings are each followed by a Q&A with translator Gochman and the actors.
U-M Residential College drama lecturer Kate Mendeloff directs RC students in Terminal 3 (5 p.m. Fri. & noon Sun.), a sparse drama set in a hospital waiting room where a young couple is there to welcome the birth of their first baby and a middle-age couple is there to identify their dead son.
Part of sttaged readings of Marita Lindholm Gochman’s translations of 3 plays by this celebrated contemporary writer, widely recognized as the greatest Swedish playwright since Strindberg. The readings are each followed by a Q&A with translator Gochman and the actors.
Monthly open mike storytelling competition sponsored by The Moth, the NYC-based nonprofit storytelling organization that also produces a weekly public radio show. Each month 10 storytellers are selected at random from among those who sign up to tell a 3-5 minute story on the monthly theme. The 3 judges are recruited from the audience. Monthly winners compete in a semiannual Grand Slam. Space limited, so it’s smart to arrive early.
Note: Beginning in August, the Storyslam is held twice a month, on the 1st & 3rd Tuesdays.
7:30-9 p.m. (doors open and sign-up begins at 6 p.m.), The Circus, 210 S. First. $10. 764-5118.
U-M drama lecturer Kate Mendeloff directs RC students in scenes from Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Tony Kushner’s celebrated 2-play series exploring the apocalyptic fears at the heart of contemporary culture, and ‘Night Mother, Marsha Norman’s controversial 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about a divorced woman, living with her mother, who chooses suicide in an effort to take control of her own life.
