Admit it

- your child is a ham.

Whether

telling jokes, telling stories or making excuses,

children are natural performers. Now you can enhance and

encourage their talents with several workshops that will

be conducted by some of the local theater groups in the

coming weeks.

Fayette

Community Theater will offer three classes for children

starting with introduction to stage acting Friday, Dec.

3. The class is for the beginning actor who wants to

experience many aspects of stage acting for the first

time. Areas that will be covered are voice, movement,

characterization, makeup and auditioning. The workshop

will run from 5-7 p.m. and will cost $25.

On the

following Friday, Fayette Community Theater will offer

the workshop, the art of auditioning. This is the most

popular of Fayette Community Theater's workshops and

allows participants 8-12 to explore all the techniques of

a proper audition. All of the students will participate

in a mock audition at the conclusion of the class, which

runs 5-8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 10.

The final

workshop in December is a two-day class called Christmas

reader's theater with performance. Young performers 9 -

13 will learn all the qualities of reader's theater as

they create characters vocally, enhance their vocal

skills and prepare a presentation for production. The

workshop will be 5-7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 17

and 18. The participants will present two pieces of

reader's theater at the conclusion of the class. The cost

of the workshop is $40.

All three

workshops will be at the Peachtree City Library and

require advanced registration. The workshops will be

instructed by Tammy Barton, the artistic director for

Fayette Community Theater.

Offshoot

Productions also will offer some workshops at the

Peachtree City Library during December. Comic

improvisation I and II will be offered Dec. 4 and 5. The

courses are open to people 15 and older.

Comic

improvisation I is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 4 from 10

a.m. to 1 p.m. Comic improvisation II will be 2-5 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 5. The cost for each class is $18. If you

register for both classes you may receive a $2 discount.

Offshoot

Productions also will conduct auditions for its

apprentice play, "Beanie and the Bamboozling Book

Machine." Auditions will be by appointment only from

2-5 p.m. at the Peachtree City Library Saturday, Dec. 4.

Apprentices, who range from age 12 through adult, may

include any nonprofessional actor, whether experienced or

new to the stage, or anyone interested in the technical

aspects of theater. The play will open in March.

Apprentice

application forms must be submitted by Dec. 1, in order

for the applicant to be scheduled Dec. 4. For information

about the workshops or apprentice auditions, call Susan

Steadman, artistic director of Offshoot Productions, at

770-631-2362 or e-mail to [email protected] .

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