Spend your Saturday gaining new insights into ASF productions through ASF's acclaimed Theatre in the Mind lecture discussions.
Designed around the plays presented each season, you can participate in free pre-show discussions, author, cast, designer and director talks at ASF, most Saturdays at noon.
In addition, TIM programs can be arranged in your hometown or school! Contact education office for more information.
Hosted by Dr. Susan Willis, ASF's resident dramaturg, these entertaining and thought-provoking lectures by noted theatre scholars compliment a perfect Saturday afternoon at the theatre!
Theatre in the Mind is cosponsored by the Alabama Humanities Foundation, the state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and ASF.
Reservations are not required; you may pick up your ticket at the box office counter just before each lecture.
Schedule:
Oct. 6, 2012 - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - “Creating Home: Mark Twain and the American Landscape Imagination,” Prof. Jeff Melton, UA
Dec. 1, 2012 - A Christmas Carol - Director/Adapter Talk: Producing Artistic Director Geoffrey Sherman
Feb. 2, 2013 - Macbeth - “Deciding to Kill,” Prof. Sharon O’Dair, UA
Feb. 16, 2013 - Ethel - “Becoming Ethel,” Author/actress Terry Burrell
March 9, 2013 - To Kill a Mockingbird - “Mockingbird at 50,” Panel with Prof. Emeritus Wayne Flynt, AU, and Prof. Nancy Anderson, AUM
March 30, 2013 - Twelfth Night - “Ritual Rebellion,” Prof. Emeritus Craig Sheldon, AUM
April 27, 2013 - Around the World in Eighty Days - “Jules Verne and the Genesis of Thrillers,” Prof. Darren Harris-Fain, AUM
May 4, 2013 - God of Carnage - “Covert Carnage: The Infuriating World of Yasmina Reza,” Prof. Steve Whitton, Jacksonville State Univ.
May 18, 2013 - Onstage Discussion - Repertory actors discuss the rep plays and leading roles
May 18, 2013 - Narrated Changeover - After the matinee (about 4:30), watch the crew change the set from Mockingbird to Macbeth and let ASF’s Technical Director answer all your questions