SpringFEST
- is an annual series of performance projects and workshops offered February to May.
- includes activities that reflect the growing diversity in TWS’ Program and that bring newcomers to TWS programs, introduce or sharpen skills that developing actors need in TWS season plays and musicals, and offer assistance to local playwrights, directors, and actors who are creating original works or individual performances.
- bridges our work between educational and production opportunities. It is where student-based performances take on a more prominent role in our season so that our audience and participants experience a wide array of projects that run the gamut from proposals of brand new ideas to first workshop readings of new works to staged renditions of developing material to a semi-produced show.
To view or download the 2012 SpringFEST Calendar, click here!
Click here to read press release about our 12th Annual SpringFEST!
- January 23 Spring Term begins
- January 31 SpringFEST begins
- February 3-5 Voices (CANCELLED) :: Offered in honor of Black History month with students, staff and faculty from Hartnell’s Black Student Union. Coordinated by Langston Johnson. Donations benefit the BSU.
- February 24, 25, 26 7th Annual V-Day Hartnell College & Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues :: (Fri/Sa – 7:30p, Su – 1:30p) $15 admission benefits the Monterey County Rape Crisis Center. http://www.mtryrapecrisis.org/
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- March 3 & 4 Shakespeare’s Wisdom of the Ages (CANCELLED) :: Richard Courtney’s one man tour de force illustrating the Seven Ages of Man through the Bard’s monologues. Admission by donation.
- Sat. March 10 & Sun. March 11 :: (Sa – 7:30p, Su – 1:30p)
Voices of a People’s History
Inspired by Howard Zinn’s groundbreaking books A People’s History of the United States and Voices of a People’s History of the United States. Taken from Howard Zinn’s novel, this is history through the words of extraordinary people who spoke for those who could not. http://www.thepeoplespeak.com
Readers include: Fred Herro, Cesar Flores, Kenny Stuart, Vincent Eclavea, P. Andrew Nava, Tim Grady, Ron Cacas, Jeff Heyer, Sarah Larson, Felicia Kausin, Chelsea Simmons, Alice Paipa-Lenard and Rachel Dow.
Admission by donation ($5 suggested, which will benefit the “Voices of a People’s History” organization.)
Hartnell College Performing Arts Bldg, Studio Theater (411 Central Ave Salinas)
- Fri. March 16, Sat. March 17 & Sun. March 18 :: (Fri/Sa 7:30p, Su 1:30p)
SEVEN
Offered in honor of Women’s History month, SEVEN is a groundbreaking work of documentary theater that captures the remarkable lives of a diverse and courageous group of women leaders from Guatemala, Nigeria, Russia, Cambodia, Pakistan, Northern Ireland and Afghanistan. http://www.seventheplay.com/
Readers include: Joyce Sherry, Donna Federico, Malinda deRouen, Dawn Flood Fenton, Jani Davis, Maria-Elena Cordero and Melissa Chin-Parker.
$10 admission benefits the Monterey County Rape Crisis Center and Vital Voices, $5 student rush (CASH w/ id)
Hartnell College Performing Arts Bldg, Studio Theater (411 Central Ave Salinas)
- Sat. March 24 & Sun. March 25 :: (Sa – 7:30p, Su – 1:30p)
Can I Get a Witness?
Actors are asked to write personal stories then are challenged to use them to create a theatrical experience for an audience. The process of gathering and telling these stories is a highly challenging and personal one, but it gives courage to the teller by breaking the silence.
Admission by donation.
Hartnell College Performing Arts Bldg, Studio Theater (411 Central Ave Salinas)
- Fri. March 30, Sat. March 31 & Sun. Apr 1 :: (Fri/Sa – 7:30p, Su – 1:30p)
A Farmboy Mantra
The Actors Collective offers a new play by local playwright and composer Thomas Burks that blends elements of humor and drama in his nine tales about farm folks in Texas oil country.
$10.00 Admission benefitting The Actors Collective
Hartnell College Performing Arts Bldg, Studio Theater (411 Central Ave Salinas)
Tickets available at door only, exact change please.
- April 2 – 8 Spring Break – Campus Closed
- Sat. April 21 & Sun April 22 :: (Sa/Su 2:00pm performances)
The LegacyPlayers of The Western Stage of Hartnell College present New Works by The Fifth Age Playwrights
Three new plays by Philip Pearce, Carol Marquart, & Harvey Landa
An audio play by Philip Pearce
With Kit Armstrong, Pat Horsley, Susan Keenan, Harvey Landa, Carol Marquart, Lynn Pearlman, Philip Pearce, and Michael Robbins.
Ever wish you could revise your life like a skilled editor cleaning up a messy document? For ambitious executive Peter Wicket, it’s just a wish until a girl named Kate goes to work on him with her unique hand-held remote control.
A ten minute monologue for four voices by Carol Marquart
With Pat Horsley, Susan Keenan and Lynn Pearlman
Who was Bette Davis? A world famous actress who won two Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards and more trophies than you could shake a stick at. Dead for 22 years, she currently resides in an enormous crypt at Forest Lawn which she designed herself, and will NOW take your questions.
A monologue for an old man by Harvey Landa
With Michael Robbins
A nice Jewish Boy from Humboldt Park goes into a bar…
Dates: Saturday April 21 & Sunday April 22, 2012 — Matinees at 2:00 PM
Place: Studio Theatre, Western Stage, Hartnell Performing Arts Facility, 411 Central Avenue, Salinas, CA.
Information: (831) 755-6816 or 755-6981
Free parking – No admission charge
- Wed. April 25 & Thurs. April 26 :: (10:30 am performances on the mainstage for schools) ¡Bocón!
¡Bocón! is a fable filled with humanor and mysticism and song, tells the story of twelve-year-old Miguel who flees a repressive military regime in Central American for Los Angeles. A natural storyteller and irrepressible “big mouth” or bocón, Miguel loses his voice when his parents are taken and begins a metaphorical journey north to the City of Angels. Along the way he meets up with an unusual traveling companion, La Llorona, the legendary “Weeping Woman” of Mexican and Central American mythology. Through their magical friendship, Miguel finds his voice and the courage to cross the border to a new life. Miguel’s story is relevant to immigrant children from all parts of the world…and to any child who is learning the many new meaninds of finding one’s own “voice.” This event is for schools and special discount available for student groups! Call Ron Cacas to reserve your group today, (831) 759-6012Hartnell College Performing Arts Bldg, MAINSTAGE theater (411 Central Ave Salinas)
- Fri. May 4, Sat. May 5 & Sun. May 6 :: (Fri – 7:30p, Sa/Su – 1:30p)
Bugsy Malone Junior, The Musical (A part of The Broadway Junior Collection by Musical Theatre International) book by Alan Parker / music & lyrics by Paul Williams
Cast of 30 is directed by Susanne Burns, Joe Niesen, Don Dally, Robin McKee-Williams, Anna Schumacher and Jeffrey T. Heyer.This production made possible by our grant from the Sally Hughes Church Foundation.A musical comedy film noir spoof full of roaring 1920s characters with a catchy, swinging score by the composer of The Muppet Movie. A washed-up, well-intentioned, one-time boxer steps into take control of Fat Sam’s half-witted syndicate and give their equality dim rivals Dandy Dan & his boys the heave-ho!$10 General AdmissionHartnell College Performing Arts Bldg, MAINSTAGE (411 Central Ave Salinas) - Fri. May 4 :: (12:00 – 1:00p)
Voices & Stories: Daughters, Migrants, Foster Mothers and “Real” Mothers in California Author Susan Straight talks about her book, Highwire Moon. What might happen to a young girl who’s left behind when her mother is deported to Oaxaca?Free to Hartnell students/staff/faculty with current ID.A special presentation by the National Steinbeck Center & the 2012 Steinbeck Festival http://www.steinbeck.org/
2011 SpringFEST:
- 6th annual presentation of Eve Ensler’s
The Vagina Monologues, Feb. 25-27 - 4th annual presentation of
Can I Get a Witness? March 5 & 6 - LegacyPlayers present
Under Milk Wood, March 19 & 20 - YC/HS2JC presents
How to Eat Like a Child, April 8-10 - Special student matinee performances of
The Outsiders, May 26 & 27
QUESTIONS? Call: (831) 755-6987 or e-mail Artistic Program Director, Melissa Chin-Parker ( mchin@ hartnell.edu )
