
THE EMPATHY PROJECT -
VIRTUAL EVENT #2
Virtual Devising Workshop:
A Sharing of Scenes by the Artistic Ensemble
Created and Written by
Full Circle Core Artist Leadership Group Member
Stephanie Lein Walseth
Directed by
Claribel Gross
Friday March 26 at 7 p.m. CST
Saturday, March 27 at 2 p.m. CST
Saturday, March 27 at 7 p.m. CST
The same scenes will be streamed on Saturday and Sunday. Each event will be approximately 30 minutes followed by a Post-Play Discussion. English closed captioning is available at all events.
ABOUT THE EMPATHY PROJECT
In the fall of 2020, Full Circle Theater presented virtual staged readings of The Empathy Project - the first draft of a new play exploring empathy across geographic, political, and racial divides based on interviews of rural and urban Minnesotans.
This spring we take the script development process to the next level! Join us on March 26th and 27th as our artistic ensemble shares theatrical moments from a week-long collaborative devising workshop. Playing with sound and light, objects and movement, text and language (all over Zoom!), we will investigate the power and limits of empathy in a deeply fractured world. The richly textured, highly imaginative ideas that emerge from this workshop will guide the play’s development as it moves toward a fully staged production in the fall of 2021. Get a firsthand, behind-the-scenes look at the messy and beautiful process of script transformation, and join us in a dialogue about the present and future of The Empathy Project!


THE EMPATHY PROJECT
CAST AND PRODUCTION TEAM
Cast
pictured from top to bottom, left to right:
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Shanan Custer
Malick Ceesay,
Song Kim
Alex Church
Playwright/Story Weaver: Stephanie Lein Walseth,
Full Circle Core Artist Leadership Group Member
Director: Claribel Gross
Producer: Rick Shiomi, Full Circle Co-Artistic Director
Technical Director: Quinci Bachman, Full Circle
General Manager & Production Associate
Technical Consultant: Aaron Fiskradatz
Promotion Associate: Kenji Shoemaker
Intern: Faith Milon
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