This opportunity was sent to me via email by Beth Wynstra, associate professor of English from Babson College in Massachusetts. I do not have details on pay or specific timeline, but if interested, please reach out to her directly at bwynstra@babson.edu. Project description below. Additional information can be found on the project website HERE.
Theatre at the Ruin: A Community-Based Project and Performance
A Volland Foundation Project
“Community-based art is a field in which artists, collaborating with people whose lives directly inform the subject matter, express collective meaning.”
-Jan Cohen-Cruz, Local Acts: Community Based Theater in the United States
Theater has the unique ability to bring individuals together for a collective, living, artistic experience. Community-based theater is especially unique in that the dramatized story centers and highlights a specific place and space.
Theatre at the Ruin is a community-based theater project, culminating with a multi-day live production June 17-19, 2022.
The basis of Theatre at the Ruin will be the real-life narratives and experiences of those living and working in the greater Alma community. Community members will be the actors and provide technical support.
Theatre at the Ruin will be staged in the ruins of a home that burned in 1929, on the grounds of The Volland Store. This setting will be an extraordinary backdrop for the performance, as well as a striking demonstration of how historic places might be reimagined as dynamic new spaces for artistic exploration and community-building. Bringing this new theatrical work to the Wabaunsee County community was inspired by the Smithsonian exhibition “Crossroads: Change in Rural America,” which was presented at The Volland Store in the Spring of 2021.