Artist: Ella Manor Lapointe
Benefit for the Postgraduate Student Project to Perform in Witten-Annen, Germany
Parzival and the three Drops of Blood
Written & Performed by Séamus Maynard
Saturday, April 20, 2024
8:00 pm
Threefold Auditorium
260 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY 10977
Tickets at the Door: $18 (regular), $12 (students and seniors)
In this dramatized poetic verse adaptation from the Parzival legend, written and performed by Séamus Maynard, two paths of initiation intersect -- the Arthurian path (representing working in a group) and the Parzival path (the initiation path of the individual). Here we can experience this unexpected interaction in a dynamic exchange. The performance echoes the time of the bards when entire legends were offered via the spoken word. Through this ancient way of engaging with story, we can enter the world of imagination to find relevance for the time we live in through the wisdom that still lives on in the myths and legends of the distant past.
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Séamus Maynard also offers a Speech and Drama workshop on Sunday, April 21, 2024, 2 pm - 5 pm, in the Side Room at the Threefold Auditorium. Click here for more information.
The arts of speech and drama stand in a dynamic position at this time. Rudolf Steiner's indications on speech and drama and Michael Chekhov's approach to acting shed light on what could be a practice for the theater of the future.
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Séamus Maynard is an actor, musician, author, playwright, and teaching artist. He graduated from The Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. While there, he studied speech, classical acting, and Shakespeare with Patsy Rodenburg. Prior to that, he trained intensively in the Michael Chekhov technique for many years, studying and performing with Ted Pugh and Fern Sloan who founded The Actors’ Ensemble based in Hudson, NY. Prior to his professional acting training at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Séamus studied speech formation with renowned speech artist Christopher Garvie at Artemis School of Speech and Drama in West Sussex England.
He is the author of the book Parzival a Journey of Initiation (a verse adaptation of the Parzival legend) and co-author of an online speech and drama training course, called Speech and Drama as Living Arts. Séamus has taught acting, speech, and movement at Emerson College in England, Stephens College in Missouri, California State University’s Summer Arts program, The New School NYC, Saint John’s College in Istanbul, Turkey. He has been a faculty member of The Michael Chekhov School in Hudson, NY, and MICHA (The Michael Chekhov Association).
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For more information, please email marta@eurythmy.org.