BRUNSWICK

Telling the World’s Tales, a theater performance workshop for teens, is open to young actors and want-to-be actors, beginning July 12. The 10-day workshop, which culminates in three free performances at the Brunswick gazebo, takes place at Brunswick’s First Parish Church.

Al Miller, founder and longtime teacher and director of The Theater Project, will teach the workshop.

“We’re holding the workshop at First Parish Church because The Theater Project is busy all summer with other workshops for young people, and we are grateful for First Parish’s collaboration and generosity.”

Telling the World’s Tales will focus on improvisational ways to develop dramatic material for the stage.

“We’ll focus first on learning to work together and some basics of how to make and perform original theater. The essential element in creating together is listening, so that will be a focus in a variety of ways, all of them fun,” Miller said. He added that the group will work with international folk tales as the source of dramatic material.

The workshop runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 13-15 and July 18-22. Following the sessions there will be three performances at the Brunswick gazebo, at 5 p.m. July 22, 23 and 24. The fee for the workshop is $275. Full and partial scholarships are available.

“This is an opportunity for teenagers to work with other teens from different cultures,” Miller said. “How do we use theater to communicate with each other and with an audience. This workshop is an examination of those possibilities. I’m excited to be working with a very mixed group and eager to see what we learn from each other and what we come up with.”

For more information, contact The Theater Project at (207) 729-8584 or email Al Miller at [email protected]