Author: Margaret Evans

Project Runway: Beaufort Style returns for the second “season” show,  “Art of Couture Madness,” on Friday, September 24 at 7:30 PM at a new location – the USCB Performing Arts Center.   “Art of Couture” class instructor Pat Wilcox has challenged her students to create fashions in four categories: everyday and formal wear; costumes; and tailored suits.  Unlike the hit American reality television series Project Runway, where contestants are usually restricted by time, materials, and theme, Project Runway: Beaufort Style contestants are only restricted by their own creativity. Willcox has told her students to “have fun, create, let your mind’s eye run free, then capture your vision through sketches, fabric, and making your own patterns.”   The students select their category(s), purchase their own material and work independently under the guidance of Willcox.

   The Hilton Head Island New Play Festival is an event unlike any other in the Lowcountry. It’s an opportunity for playwrights to receive feedback on their work from audiences outside New York and L.A. and hear a different perspective than they might find elsewhere. It gives Hilton Head residents the chance to hear brand new plays and shape the final product into something that speaks to them and their experiences. SCRC is becoming a testing ground for new voices and is an organization that is committed to nurturing American playwrights. The Hilton Head Island New Play Festival will also strengthen our relationship with the SCRC audience by providing a venue for frank discussion of the work while offering new audience members another way to experience theater on the Island.

“Some people call it “the sane version of Method acting,” said instructor Gail Westerfield, who is preparing to teach a class in Meisner Technique at ARTworks. “The class will be an introduction to the fundamentals of Sanford Meisner’s work, a practice that trains actors to be fully ‘in the moment’ on stage. Through a series of exercises, both experienced and inexperienced actors will learn what Meisner called ‘living truthfully in imaginary circumstances.’”