For Colored Girls…

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May 10 – May 20, 2012

Written by Ntozake Shange

Directed by Karen Dacons-Brock

Coproduced by SheCow Productions

Choreographed by Cynthia Penn

Wardrobe by JeMarl Kearney

Stage Managed by Natasha Jackson

$20  Regular Admission
$15  Students & Seniors
$10 Thursday Night Admission 


Burning Coal Theatre Company presents the closing show of its 2011/2012 Second Stage Series, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf” by Ntozake Shange, directed by Karen Dacons-Brock. “For Colored Girls. . .” is a choreopoem, a series of 20 separate poems choreographed to music. The ensemble piece features seven African-American women who tell their interconnected stories of faith, love, empowerment and loss.

Cast:  Aurelia Belfield, LaKeisha Coffey, Emelia Cowans, Carly Jones, Kyma Lassiter, Sherida McMullan and Tara Whitney Rison

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Oakwood: Unplugged

May 18 – May 20, 2012

6:30 pm on Friday – Saturday
2 pm on Sunday

Written by Ian Finley and Rebecca Wyrick

Directed by Jonathan McCarter

$20  adults
$10  students

Oakwood Cemetery
701 Oakwood Avenue
Raleigh, NC

A music celebration of some of the musically inclined citizens from Raleigh’s illustrious past. It features all new material written by Ian Finley and Rebecca Wyrick. The cast of ten Triangle-based actors will perform under the direction of Raleigh’s Jonathan McCarter.

An Evening of A Capella

May 27, 2012

$15  Regular
$10  Student

Please join us for the very best a cappella music that the Triangle has to offer! If you love vocal music, don’t miss this event as Cognitive Resonance, Second Shift, and transit vocal band will join forces to display Read More »

STC Jr.

Jun 11 – Jun 22, 2012

10 am – 3 pm on Monday – Friday

Taught by Ian Finley

$245  DUE on or before the first day of the program.

Eligibility
Students in grades 6-8

A two week conservatory for students in grades 6-8 who want to explore all the possibilities the theatre offers.  Students learn techniques of movement, vocal production, and character study in the mornings and apply those techniques in rehearsing an original play in the afternoons, with a culminating production of that play created by the students themselves at the end of the session.  Taught by Burning Coal’s Director of Education, Ian Finley.

STC Sr.

Jul 9 – Jul 27, 2012

10 am – 4 pm on Monday – Friday

Taught by Ian Finley (NYU MFA & BC's Education Director)

$395  DUE at time of your audition for the play.

Eligibility
Students in grades 9-12

DEADLINE
June 22, 2012
You will be contacted regarding auditions for the play following enrollment.

STC Sr. is our intensive, three-week conservatory for high school students interested in rigorous, professional training.

The conservatories are led by:
Ian Finley (NYU MFA & Burning Coal’s Education Director)

Last year, Ian Finley was joined by the Director of Education for the Folger Theatre in Washington, DC.  A similar quality educator will be hired again this year!  Students will learn a wide variety of subjects and techniques in classes with guest artists from fine educational institutions and professional theatres like: Read More »

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