Wednesday, May 31, 2000
Wednesday, May 31, 2000 |
| Offshoot
kicks off busy summer with final coffeehouse of the
season BY MICHAEL BOYLAN Humorist/musician Andy Offutt Irwin, widely admired in his Renaissance Festival, coffeehouse and college circuit gigs, returns to Fayetteville's Stars on the Southern Crescent coffeehouse Saturday, June 3. Joining Irwin in the evening's revelries is the Irish folk band Barney's Goat. Irwin has accomplished a lot in the region. He has taught acting at Oxford College of Emory University, directed the 37th annual Cracker Crumble, the political parody show of the Georgia Press Association, and hosted a concert series to be broadcast on Peach State Public Radio this summer. Both Irwin and Barney's Goat appeared at the first Stars on the Southern Crescent in 1993, when the coffeehouse was in Stockbridge. Their appearance together in June makes the season finale an event not to be missed. The venue for the coffeehouse is National Heights Baptist Church, at the intersection of Old Norton Road and Ga. Highway 54, between Peachtree City and downtown Fayetteville. Doors open at 7:45 p.m., with the show beginning at 8:15. Admission is $6 for the general public, and $4 for seniors and children under 12. Hot and cold beverages and enticing home-baked desserts will be available. Patrons who bring their mugs from home are eligible for discounts on hot beverages and for the “most unusual mug” award. Offshoot Productions is seeking a mature male actor and technical apprentices for its July productions of two children's participatory musicals, “The Further Adventures of Maide Marian” and “The Tale of the Frog Prince.” Auditions and interviews will be from 2 - 4 p.m. Sunday, June 4, at the Peachtree City Library, 201 Willowbend Road, in the City Hall complex. The actor, who will play either Friar Tuck in “Maide Marian” or the King in “The Frog Prince,” must be able to sing. Technical apprentices attend the acting workshops offered to all apprentices, and fill responsible positions in the running of the show. They may also understudy previously cast apprentices with roles in the productions. Apprentices range from age 13 through adult. The shows will be performed July 20-30 at the LaFayette Educational Center (formerly Fayette County High School) in Fayetteville. Rehearsals begin in June. Offshoot Productions also will offer six theater workshops this summer for teens and adults beginning Sunday, June 11. The first workshop, “Improv and Interaction” will be at the Peachtree City Library. Meeting 1:30 - 4:30 p.m., the workshop will help actors feel comfortable working without a script and interacting with each other as well as with audience members. The cost of the session is $20, and preregistration is strongly advised. Instructors include Susan M. Steadman, Ph.D., artistic director of Offshoot, and Brian Turner, an Atlanta actor highly experienced in improvisation. Subsequent acting workshops include “Text and Subtext” June 17 (adults and teens), “Creating an Ensemble” June 25 (adults and teens), “Theater Games” July 8 (ages 6 to 8), and “Working with the Script” July 24 (ages 9 to 12). The Peachtree City Library is at 201 Willowbend Road. For registration forms or information, phone Offshoot at 770-631-2362 or e-mail to offshootpr@aol.com.
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