Directing Workshop Report

Beth Bruner has been directing in Utah for 24 years.  She loves working with young people, and has directed for schools from Holladay to Roy, and many community theater shows using children.  Her first love is Shakespeare (she has directed many of his plays), but her work with Salty Dinner Theater and Desert Star writing and directing in-your-face comedies comes a close second.

Hannah says, "For workshop today, we worked on our characters.  We learned how to better show them and how to just show our faces and body language: what we feel without really feeling it.  We worked on making characters on the spot and being in the 1920s."

Max O adds, "Directing was a great learning experience and was very fun.  I learned how to shift my body weight to act."

From Edlena:
Yesterday for workshop I learned four things.  First that you can vary between different characters by changing voice, posture, etc.  Second, the way you hold yourself up dictates the class level (high class, middle class, low class).  Third, not only can you change accents in your voice you can also change the pitch.  Last, the more you develop your character the easier it is to play.