
Educational Series: Viewpoints
Viewpoints for Improvisers focuses on nonverbal communication and improvised staging. The workshop will hone a performer’s ability to be aware of the whole ensemble and to work off each other’s unspoken impulses.
2017-2018 Agenda
See below for our full list of upcoming play readings, workshops, auditions and productions.
Viewpoints for Improvisers focuses on nonverbal communication and improvised staging. The workshop will hone a performer’s ability to be aware of the whole ensemble and to work off each other’s unspoken impulses.
We’ll do a cold reading of Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare on Friday 25th May at 20:00 on Ijburg
Through a series of exercises focused on both personal awareness and teamwork, you will learn a style of improvisation that feels more like life...
With a lush musical score, catchy songs and an ‘everyman’ story that relates to everyone’s experiences of making career and life decisions, Allegro is fun to perform and enjoyable to watch. Focusing on one man's life, from birth in 1905 until his thirty-fifth year, Allegro portrays life and love against the backdrop of the Depression.
This workshop is an introduction and gives the participants an opportunity to explore how to create and develop a character by starting from the outside.
Circus Girl takes you on a journey through America during the 1890s—from Kansas City to Chicago to Denver. It is the story a young performer who has lived in the circus her entire life. She knows very little about the outside world, and suddenly has to fend for herself in rapidly changing and precarious surroundings.
The InPlayers is proud to present Buried Child. Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child is a powerful and brilliant dark comedy that probes deep into the disintegration of the American Dream...
The committee is here for the InPlayers’ members and potential members and needs your input for our plans next year.
Auditions for our summer 2018 production of Allegro
Auditions for our summer 2018 production of Allegro
Auditions for our spring production Buried Child by Sam Shepard
Have you been bitten by the bug and are now interested in the wonderful world of acting? Come learn the basics...
Vignettes of life from an unexpected angle.
This seriously humorous and humorously serious piece of theatre takes you to your favorite restaurant and offers you a table nearby.
In stage fighting you will get an introduction to the concepts of stage fighting.
This ongoing workshop will teach you how to apply simple techniques to bring the lyrics of a song to same level of importance as the music. All that is required for this workshop is the ability to carry a tune and be able to feel it emotionally.
Ken will be sharing some shortcuts and tips on how to find the “inner voice” of a stage or screen role. Join us for a few hours of exploration in how to take the first few steps in creating a fully fleshed character.
We’ll do a cold reading of All That Fall by Samuel Beckett on Friday, September 15, 2017 starting at 7:30 pm.
First World War poetry has the power to move in a way that possibly nothing else does.
In this workshop. we will read and discuss our favourite poems. We will then develop and try out ideas for an evening’s performance.
Didn't get the chance to audition on the first date? Email us at 1t2c.amsterdam@gmail.com to reserve your slot now.
The InPlayers 2017-2018 season begins on September 30, which means you can get the Early Bird Discount if you pay your membership fee before then!
There are numerous roles for men and women of all ages above 20. All levels of experience are welcome to audition.
A spoiled young man takes on a girl, his father, and the Army to get what he wants and doesn’t need...
Nymph Errant is the light-hearted story of Evangeline Edwards, who graduates from a finishing school in 1933. She and her classmates are encouraged by their teacher, Miss Pratt, to "experiment", in the broadest sense possible. What follows is a romp through Europe with plenty of opportunities for snappy Cole Porter musical numbers, interesting dialogue, lots of accents, wonderful costumes, a few dance steps, exotic locations and a good time for all.
This workshop is for actors age 11-18. Participants will explore communication techniques through a variety of theatrical games. Each specifically designed to help actors connect with their audience through vocal and physical performance.
The Truth Hurts and So Does Love is David Nicholson’s 21st century prose translation of Molière’s Le Misanthrope - the French master’s most modern play. A play of character rather than plot, it focuses on Alceste, a man principled to the point of psychological distress, and Célimène, the independent woman he loves - and the men and women who surround them: his realistic friend Philinte, bad poet Oronte, wealthy wastrels Clitandre and Acaste, prude Arsinoé, and Célimène’s sensible cousin Éliante.
In this 2-hour workshop we'll cover various vocal & breathing techniques and exercises aimed at helping the participants properly use their voice and diction when performing on stage, or in any other type of situation involving an audience. Participants are asked to prepare and know by heart a short monologue or poem of their choice they will be using during the workshop.
We will look at similarities of play and screenplay structures -- what each scene must do, directing the focus, conflict, etc. -- and the differences. The rules of screenplay writing will be discussed, such as the four-line rule, page count, white space and more. We will also compare plays and film adaptations
Travesties is a play by Tom Stoppard. The play centers on the figure of Henry Carr, an elderly man who reminisces about Zürich in 1917 during the First World War, and his interactions with James Joyce when he was writing Ulysses, Tristan Tzara during the rise of Dada, and Lenin leading up to the Russian Revolution, all of whom were living in Zürich at that time.
What happens when you're not "straight" and your family's a little bit narrow? Join the InPlayers for one modern family's account of how a gay man can still walk the "Straight & Narrow". Written by Jimmie Chinn and directed by Matt Percy, "Straight & Narrow examins what can happen when misconception mixes with miscommunication - resulting in a hilarious and heart-warming evening of theatre.
One Table, Two Chairs is about the glimpses into relationships we happen to catch: the fragile beginnings, the tumultuous middles, the bittersweet endings.
The Alexander Technique promotes awareness and balance in everyday life, improves your quality of life, changes your ingrained habits and patterns, and helps to reduce and prevent stress and relieve pain. During this introduction course, I’d like to help you gain a better understanding, organization and use of your body, resulting in better posture and balance, significant reduction in stress, and relieve and prevention of pain and discomfort. This will improve your stage presence!
Meet Michael, he’s going to be a successful author, that is as soon as he’s finished his book. In fact, his whole writers’ group is going to make it, as soon as they find the right publisher… but first they have to deal with love, loss and rejection.
This workshop aims at offering to its participants a first encounter with Commedia dell'Arte. We will be working with masks, expressions, and the physical representation of archetypes. Once the basics of these archetypes is understood and assimilated, we can move on to the second phase which is to improvise simple everyday situations within the frames of clear canvases. Before you know it, you'll be experiencing comical scenes depicting humanity in all its variety, for the pleasure of actors and audience. In a nutshell, a refreshing workshop laying the groundwork for future acting, with or without masks!
This workshop is an introduction to Method Acting and gives participants an opportunity to discover several at techniques as well as how to use elements of this method Systematically to build a credible character. Imagination, sense memory and physical action will be explored.