Physical Comedy Class at the Shakespeare Theatre

Taught by Mark Jaster & Sabrina Mandell

January 24 – February 28
Tuesdays from 6:30pm – 9:30pm
To Register: http://www.shakespearetheatre.org/education/training/master_classes/winter.aspx
Tuition: $370
Explore physical techniques that support comic performance, with exercises in stillness, reaction, focus, clarity of mimetic gesture, illusion, physical characterization, the divided self, status in the duo and trio, the inclusion of the audience, and clown. Mark draws on his training with Etienne Decroux and Marcel Marceau. Sabrina draws on her training in the LeCoq pedagogy with Dody DiSanto with concentration in the realm of the theatrical clown. Their complimentary approaches combine to address nuts-and-bolts physical, technical and structural skills and the more esoteric issues of honesty, presence and accessibility.

Plunkett & Tremolo

Bring the kids to see “Plunkett & Tremolo”! This Saturday evening.

Encore Stage & Studio presents Happenstance Theatre’s Plunkett & Tremolo. As star of the show, Tremolo is full of spectacular skill, knockabout comedy and classic physical antics, but Plunkett is determined to upstage him! Hilarity ensues as these two wordless fools try to prove who is who. Kids ages 4 and older and their families will be entertained by Mark Jaster and Sabrina Mandell’s spectacular skill and silly antics. The duo comprise Happenstance Theatre, a professional company committed to devising and producing original, performer-created visual, poetic theater.

January 7 at 7:30 pm

Where: Rosslyn Spectrum

1601 N Kent St  -  Arlington, VA 22209-2127

(571) 312-8145
Tickets are only $16
or $8 on Goldstar. Here is a link to Goldstar Tix

Tiny Vanitas Video

So here is our first foray into filmmaking. We wanted at least post something to show a possible flavor of the piece. We recorded a lot of studio time after this movie was made and eventually will edit it and share it for viewing. Happy Spring! And good viewing!


Look Out Below! Reviews

 

 

WASHINGTON POST

DC THEATRE SCENE

OUR KIDS.COM

and HERE is an article about us from the Gazette…

Are you looking for an affordable alternative or supplement to the usual Christmas season entertainments? LOOK OUT BELOW! another Happenstance Tour De Force just finished its performances at Round House Theatre Bethesda…keep posted to see where it will happen next.

THUNDER!  MOONLIGHT!  SLAPSTICK! The end of the 19th century is at hand…Pierrot is on his way to Paris where he intends to make the very first recorded sound. En route he meets Augustine, a would-be Hot Air Balloonist.  Accompanied by an eccentric one-person Band they encounter comic misadventures at the Circus, the Paris Metro, the Eiffel Tower and the Moulin Rouge. Starring Mark Jaster as Pierrot, Sabrina Mandellas Augustine andKaren Hansen as The Band.

Happenstance Theater employs whimsical imagery, physical comedy and live music to engage imaginations of all ages.

AUTUMN NEWS!

Mark Jaster has been selected as the winner of the 2009 Montgomery County Executive’s Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Outstanding Artist Award for his achievements in, and contribution to, the arts in Montgomery County. Also, Happenstance Theater received an Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County Creative Projects Grant and have been invited to perform at the Montgomery County Executive’s Ball on October 19th, 2009 where we will show a short preview of Look Out Below! and Mark Jaster will receive his Outstanding Artist Award. This event is free and open to the public. Click HERE for more information.

Look Out Below!

Fringe and Purge Blog Hip Shot of Cabaret CooCoo

This is a remarkably astute REVIEW! We were trying to take it easy this year having built so many new shows the last couple of years and so we decided to try something a little less “devised” and a little more “assembled”.
Thank you so much for your sensitive eye and patience with us while we experiment with ways to make art when there is no time and no money.
Love you DC city paper cats!