see a show, come to a talk, or join a Dramatic reading, workshop, or Production!
See below for talks, plays, dramatic readings, or workshops that you can see and students can join.,
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Upstart Crows
stage combat training
2024 Subscription: $100
Come any Saturday 11:00 - 12:30 p.m. at the Crows’ Nest
(7 Caliente Road, Building 1)
As You like It
Introduction to the play, Saturday, August 31. Rehearsals Tuesday or Thursday + Saturday afternoons (depending on the number of casts)
Dress rehearsals 1/11, 1/12, 1/13, 1/14
Performances 1/17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26 at the Crows’ Nest in Eldorado
Love’s Labours lost
A scenes workshop
the Shakespeare gym
The Gym goes back to its roots with a workshop of scenes from this infrequently performed but beautifully written play. The focus is on decoding and learning ways to approach the text.
Introduction to the Workshop, Saturday, August 31, 4-6 p.m.
Rehearsals on Monday evenings, 9/3 - Nov. 30, 630 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Dress rehearsal - Thu, Jan 2, 6:30 pm
Performances - Fri, Jan 3 and Sat, Jan 4, 6:30 pm
All at the Crows’ Nest in Eldorado
Upstart readers charles dickens’
a christmas carol
Four casts of three perform dramatic readings of the timeless Christmas classic from Dickens' own performance script.
Victorian tea is served during intermission.
12/20, 21, 22 at the Crows’ Nest (7 Caliente Road, Building 1 at La Tienda in Eldorado - enter through Taco Fusion lobby)
12/25 at Unitarian Universalist Congregation 107 Barcelona Road, Santa Fe
All performances at 6:30 p.m.
Shut-in shakespeare
Our online Shakespeare Festival - suitable for deepening your understanding of performing Shakespeare
Four private mentoring sessions on verse, rhetoric, context, meaning, and performance to develop a monologue or soliloquy to readiness for recording. Participants use their own device to record their performance which will then be placed on the Upstart Crows of Santa Fe’s YouTube Channel.
Watch the Upstart Crows/Shakespeare Gym production of Hamlet at Seton Castle on You Tube