Female Pirate and Queen Elizabeth coming to BRCT

The Blue Ridge Community Theater is honored to have been selected to host a dramatic reading of:

Short Haired Grace ~ a short full-length play by Bill Bruehl.

Performances will be Saturday May 3rd at 7:30 pm and Sunday May 4th at 2:00 pm ONLY.

Short Haired Grace is a play based on the actual conversation between Queen Elizabeth I and the pirate Grace O'Malley. For forty years during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558 - 1603), Grace O'Malley dominated the seas off the west coast of Ireland, leading a band of Irish pirates whom the English were unable to defeat. Finally, when both were in the sixties, these two powerful women met in London at the Queen's invitation. That is history. How they dealt with each other is finally revealed in the play…

In addition, Bill Bruehl has agreed to conduct a Masters Acting Workshop FOR FREE

Saturday May 3rd, 2008 at 11:00 am

This one to two hour event will be a "Text" workshop. Participants need a script or a monologue and be fully willing to participate. Observers, however, are welcome and encouraged.

This event provides a great opportunity for any writer that has considered script or screenplay writing. Even if you haven't thought of it before, this workshop will get you thinking about how that short story, prose, or poem may be able to transition in to a theatrical production.

While teaching "actor responsibility to the play, the director, the blocking and the working words", Bill seeks to teach actors to surprise each other at each performance to keep the play alive and fresh, while staying true to the text.