Members of this course will participate in theater activities from classic sources such as Viola Spolin's Story Theater and Ann Bogart's Viewpoints.  Participants become adept at creating scenes from a variety of texts from Aesop's Fables to a letter to the editor on women's rights. Working in small groups we will discover and act out the key dramatic moments in each story.  We will move, learn to use our voices, but never be required to memorize. 

Maggie Roberts Barkin has acted and sung onstage and taught theater for over 50 years. She has worked under directors using a variety of methods on stages from the Yale Repertory Theater to dinner theater in Johnson City Tennessee. She studied theater at Emerson College and received her BFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.