Dates: Monday 27th July to Friday 6th August 2009
Directors: Sam and Joan McCready

The Drama Workshop, for beginners and more experienced students of Yeats's theatre is held each day, Week 1 Monday through Friday & Week 2 Monday to Thursday, 2.30pm 6.30pm, and is offered as a two-week option to the afternoon academic seminars at no extra cost. The workshop provides students with an experiential approach to Yeats's drama: in addition to rehearsing one of the plays for public presentation, students receive training in verse speaking, choral speech, characterisation, masks and basic stage movement by skilled practitioners.

Sam and Joan McCready have taught, acted and directed in Ireland and the U.S. for decades.

       Sam McCready They were founders and artistic directors of the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, a theatre which specialised in the plays of W.B. Yeats. In America, where the McCreadys have lived for 25 years, Sam was professor of theater at the University of Maryland , Baltimore County, and Joan headed the theater department at the Park School . Since retiring from teaching some years ago, they've performed around the U.S. and Europe, especially in the works of Yeats and Beckett. Their production of Coole Lady: the Extraordinary Story of Lady Gregory premiered at the 2003 Yeats Summer School, toured Ireland in 2004 and appeared off-Broadway in 2005. Their latest production, A Time to Speak: A Holocaust Memoir, starring Joan, was named in the Top Ten productions of 2008 in the Baltimore/Washington region. Sam is author of Lucille Lortel: A Bio-Bibliography (1993) and A W. B. Yeats Encyclopedia (1997), Coole Lady (2005), and Baptism by Fire: My Life with Mary O'Malley and the Lyric Players (2007).

All participants in the workshop should wear comfortable clothing, and bring a black shirt/blouse, black trousers/long skirt, and black shoes for the public presentation.

The recommended text
for the Drama Workshop
is W. B. Yeats: Selected Plays
chosen by Richard A. Cave
(Penguin,1997).

ISBN-10: 0140183744 (Amazon.com)

Student Performance of The Dreaming of the Bones 2008