Work on scenes from great modern plays with Burning Coal Theatre Company.  Burning Coal’s Artistic Director, Jerome Davis will again lead his annual, eight-week scene study class based on the concepts expressed in Uta Hagen’s landmark book Respect for Acting. Davis studied with Uta Hagen at HB Studios in New York for seven years. Class will be founded in Hagen’s “object exercises.” Students will have the opportunity to work each week on scenes from modern dramatic literature and present Hagen’s object exercises in class.  Students should obtain and read Respect for Acting by Uta Hagen prior to the first class. Burning Coal has presented this class every summer since 1999.

***This class is a scene study class.  That means students who want to work on scenes in the class will need to meet with an assigned scene partner and rehearse an assigned scene (5 to 6 minutes) and then bring their work into class and present it.  There is also an option to not do scene work, but only focus on Ms. Hagen’s Object Exercises, but that also requires rehearsal time outside of class (1 to 2 hours versus 5 to 6 hours).

For more information on Burning Coal’s Artistic Director, read the American Theatre magazine profile here.