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 Troy Women
Greek Tragedy April 3 - 25, 2009 4:30pm, Thursdays - Saturdays
Queen Hecuba and the women of Troy mourn and honor their city on the morning after its destruction. Together, they grieve the loss of loved ones and way of life as they await their fates at the hands of their Greek captors. With an accessible contemporary adaptation from Euripides' classic, Troy Women is a chilling, brutal, yet courageous portrait of survival during war.
Rosebud School of the Arts delves into the classics with its first Greek tragedy. The play is adapted with contemporary language from the 2500 BC original. The playwright Euripides was best-known for challenging the Greek audience to count the cost of their war victories.
In the same way, the play asks us to consider what it takes to maintain a position of power and influence in the global community.
So why are we doing this play? The school strives to provide opportunities for students to learn theatre from its history, and to invite the audience to engage stories that ask difficult questions. Director David Snider says, “It is exciting and humbling to embrace the extreme circumstances the characters face. We are having to listen closely to find the hope, and there has been a lot of discussion around the question ‘Is tragedy necessary in the story of humanity?’”
"In Troy Women, RSA tackles themes of violence, sexuality and war," says Education Director Paul Muir. "We believe that we must not shelter our students from the realities of the sometimes brutal world we live in, but rather learn how to walk humbly in that broken world with respect, dignity and grace."
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Molokai 2009: The Best Gift Ever
On May 10, 1873, Father Damien de Veuster landed on the peninsula of Kalaupapa on the north shore of the island of Molokai, Hawaii.
He came to care for the lepers that had been abandoned there. He was to die 15 years later on March 28, 1889 of complications attributed to leprosy. 15 years of service to people that were seen as less than human, ostracized from society and imprisoned on a tongue of land jutting into the ocean.
On September 5, 2008 I opened the show Damien on the Rosebud Opera house stage. I did the show 43 times with my friend Michael Thiessen. It was a difficult time for us and we shared the struggle to put this heroic man’s story on the stage while in the midst of struggles in our own lives. It was a good thing.
On February 2nd,2009 I got on a plane with my Dad and we flew to Maui where the next day we boarded a ferry for the island of Molokai. After a harrowing, nausea filled, boat ride through a trade winds whipped sea, we landed on the island where 120 years earlier the Flemish priest, I had come to know intimately, had landed after a harrowing, nausea filled boat ride himself. I took in the sites, I went to the peninsula where it had all happened, rode mules down a cliff to get there and sat on a shore by and old church and watched the waves crash in.
This was incredible in and of itself, but the truly amazing thing was that I didn’t have to do anything to get there. I picked the day I wanted to go and I packed a bag. My friends paid the way. Those who had seen the show, spearheaded by a dauntless woman of God who had heard “Nathan needs to go to Molokai” whispered in her ear.
I don’t think I can say thank you to a gift like this, I think all I can do is bring back the heart that has been enlarged, enlightened and enlivened and share it with all those that cared enough about me to listen to the Voice that said “Nathan needs to go to Molokai” Truly the best gift ever.
submitted by Nathan Schmidt
Final Projects
Past
Ophelia’s Hamlet: In Memory of.
Adapted and perfomed by Kelsey Krogman Shakespeare’s Hamlet from a new vantage point in a provoking adaptation of the classic text. Played at the Rosebud Studio Stage March 21 - 26, 2009.
WOZA ALBERT!
by Percy Mtwa, Barney Simon, and Mbongeni Ngema
Belinda Jackson’s final project was a satirical exploration of what may have happened had Jesus Christ come back to Apartheid South Africa. Directed by Leah T. Hearne, starring Kelsey Krogman and Lindsey Sine. Choreography by Deanne Bertch, with Morgan Miller and Fiona Lauridsen on drums. Played at the Rosebud Studio Stage March 1, 2, 8, 9, 2009.
Upcoming Final Project
See Bob Run
By Daniel MacIvor
A one act play featuring Sammantha Reinhardt
Sunday April 26 at 2 and 7 PM Monday April 27 at 7 PM Akokiniskway Gallery, Rosebud School of the Arts
Tickets: $8 in advance or $10 at the door. Some language, not suitable for young children. Please call 403.334.0777 to book tickets.
Alumni News
 Dale Marushy ‘05 and Krista Knutsen were beautifully married in Fort Langley, BC on March 29th, 2009. Morris Ertman presided over the service.
Carmen Paterson '06 is about to embark on her first tour with Trickster Theatre this April; then she’s off to Canada’s National Voice Intensive this Spring at UBC.
 Norma Roth '95 has finally completed her BFA in Theatre Design from the University of Alberta! She's glad to be closing this chapter of her life and eager to start the new one. First, she's off to Vancouver in May to participate in the Canadian National Voice Intensive. After that...the world's her oyster.
March was a busy month for Lucia Frangione ‘91. After performing in NiX at ATP in Calgary, she came home to screen her first short film Pop Switch and workshop her two new plays in Vancouver: Sanctuary (with Aaron Krogman) and Paradise Garden (world premiering at the Arts Club Theatre April 2010). Her husband, Michael Kopsa, can be seen for thirty seconds in the blockbuster flick The Watchmen. Her daughter, Nora, has become an avid gardener and rock collector. Sometimes rocks and bedding plants do not go together, but three is an age of discovery after all. Ack!
 Hayley Hudson '05 is keeping busy with background work for film and TV including Flashpoint, Flash of Genius, and The Hulk. In summer 2008 she worked on the film Interface as assistant director and make-up artist and took on a supporting role. Interface was created by deaf artists, employed a deaf crew and was performed by deaf actors in American Sign Language. It will be shown in selected cities across Canada. Earlier this March, Hayley traveled to Ottawa as a guest speaker for the Disability and Deaf Arts Focus Group for Canada Council of the Arts. Hopefully they shook things up a bit and encouraged Canada Council to consider funding for projects that employ artists with disabilities.
Rachel Peacock's '08 play Fishbowl was accepted at Red Deer College's Scripts at Work playwriting festival. It will receive a public reading April 17th. Recently Rachel performed in the Fully Clothed Nude production of To Forgive, Divine at Fire Exit Theatre. She will be a musician in Man of La Mancha and acting in Christmas in Wales (Rosebud Theatre). She is presently sound designing Troy Women at the Rosebud Studio Stage.
 After completing his third year with Trickster Theatre out of Calgary, Gio Mocibob '05 is back in Rosebud this summer, performing in two shows – Man of La Mancha and Confessions of a Paperboy. After that, he's open to adventure!
In March 2009, Scott Schreiner '08 performs in Soldier's Heart by David French in Calgary and Medicine Hat with Loudly Whispered Theatre. The summer months see Scott in Barkerville B.C. as an historical interpreter and street performer.
Now Playing on the Opera House Stage:
Lettice and Lovage
by Peter Shaffer
Comedy
Directed by Morris Ertman
March 13 - May 16
 Two impossibly different middle-aged British women find friendship against all odds in this zany comedy about the power of an uninhibited imagination. When confronted with the dull stories she must tell in her job as a tour guide, Lettice begins to embellish history to the point where she is fired by Lotte, her superior. An unlikely friendship begins, aided and abetted by the acting out of ridiculously imaginative and embellished stories from history and the slogan "enlarged, enlivened and enlightened."
Produced by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH (Canada) Limited
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Spring 2009
Download this issue of the Keeping In Touch RSA Newsletter (PDF)
Featured Guest Instructor
RSA is very fortunate to have master teacher and director Ian Prinsloo teaching Stanislavski Scene Study to the Mentorship students this term. Ian's career has seen him directing at the Shaw Festival and in other theatres across Canada. He was also the artistic director for Theatre Calgary for 8 years. We know this promises to be a rich experience for all involved.
West Coast Trip
By Lennette Randall, Certificate in Theatre Foundations
9 Certificate Students together for 9 days. Sounds like a recipe for disaster?
Not at all! It was 9 exciting days of adventure, discovery, new relationships, renewed friendships laughter, singing and very little sleep. Mama Renita and Papa Bill added that special touch to each day.
In The Silver Bullet and Cranberry Sauce (our top range rental vehicles) we drove around BC with style to workshops, theatre shows and a Love Duet Concert.
Three words from a workshop I will never forget: YIELD, BUILD & SUPPORT. This is not just important for Acting Improvisation but for life as an artist and as a human being.
London Trip
By Heather Zacharias, Mentorship Acting
For two weeks in February the Mentorship Level I & II students made the trip across the pond to London, England with a quick jaunt to Dublin, Ireland. Despite a record-setting snowfall that brought London to a standstill, we Canadians braved the 0-degree weather and tromped about the closed-down city, marvelling at the Londoners fondness for snowmen.
Even a rash of bed-bugs couldn't hold our group back. We explored the city with gusto, taking in as many shows, workshops, landmarks, museums, and irate bus drivers as the city had to offer. We were blown away by the size and scope of the National Theatre, fascinated by both cities' palpable history, and excited by brushes with celebrities. In short, we had a wonderful time and offer our sincerest thanks to those who helped to make this trip possible.
Is It Really About Money?
Yup! Money. That’s what this section is about. Everything else in this newsletter is about how students at Rosebud School of the Arts are discovering themselves, how they are stepping out to explore new and creative talents with the guidance and mentorship of our faculty, staff and each other.
As we hope you might imagine, enabling these discoveries is not done for free. Students pay tuition, and proceeds from Rosebud Theatre tickets sales help off-set some costs.
But to really make it possible for students to study (and discover) – we need to be able to offer scholarships, bursaries and awards. We can, and we do. Over $30,000 in financial support was provided to students in 2008.
But we need to do more – and that is where you come in. Donations to the Rosebud School of the Arts Scholarship Fund provide direct and needed support to students. You can donate to our general scholarship fund to support existing awards, or with a single donation of $5,000 or more, you can endow your own scholarship.
Just call us and ask for Bob at 403.677.2350 or bobd@rosebudtheatre.com. He’s the guy that can help get you started. Sometimes, it is about the money. Thanks for your support!
Being a donor is a part worth playing. Just ask the students you’ve been reading about. They can tell you … you’ve got the easy part!
For a List of 2009 Scholarship Recipients please download the KIT Newsletter (PDF)
RSA Students at Emerge Auditions
by Paul F. Muir, Head of Acting
Theatre graduates from across the province will be auditioning for artistic directors, freelance directors and casting directors, vying for the chance to be noticed and hopefully offered roles at one of the many theatre companies across Alberta.
The annual Emerge auditions, hosted by Theatre Alberta, take place on April 6th in Edmonton & April 20th in Calgary. Proudly representing Rosebud School of the Arts this year are:
Kelsey Krogman (Way of the Wolf, As You Like It, The Rich Man, When the Sun Meets the Earth, Fiddler on the Roof)
Sammantha Reinhardt (Way of the Wolf, As You Like It, When the Sun Meets the Earth, The Homecoming, Lettice & Lovage)
Please keep these actors in your thoughts and prayers as they prepare for their first step into the professional world.
Discover Rosebud
A scholarship fundraiser showcasing student talent in music, drama and dance
Sunday, April 19, 2009, 7:30pm
Olds Arts Centre
Olds College, Olds, AB
Contact: 403-677-2350
Thursday, April 30, 2009, 7:00pm
Rosebud Church, Rosebud
Rosebud School of the Arts is presenting the Fourth Annual showcase of student talent in music, drama and dance. Performances feature the best of our 2008/09 programmes of study from the students in Rosebud. For anyone interested in learning more about one of the leading theatre training schools in the country this is your chance to see and meet the students and staff of RSA.
Admission is free. Donations will be accepted with proceeds going directly to the RSA scholarship fund.
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