Technical course offer

Press, 27 January 1988, Page 18

Technical course offer

For the first time Troupers Stage School will offer a technicians course this year. The theatre technicians’ course will be taken by Clinton Poole and Bryan Lacey, who have been appointed technical directors of the school. Clinton Poole is the course supervisor for the Christchurch Academy performing arts technicians’ course. He has been technical director of the James Hay Theatre and on the technical staff at the Court Theatre. He was a founder member of React Theatre and has worked on productions for Southern Ballet, Catco and this year’s fes-

tival of fringe theatre at the Arts Centre.

Bryan Lacey has his own company, Lightspeed, which provides lighting for Christchurch productions. He is in charge of technical facilities at the Ngaio Marsh Theatre and has taught lighting design at the Christchurch Polytechnic.

He, too, has worked at the Court Theatre, for the Christchurch Ballet Society, the Repertory Theatre and Summer Times.

The . Troupers Stage School technical course will begin on February 16 at the Troupers’ studio in the Peterborough Centre. Classes will be on Tues-

day and Thursday evenings. Sherrill Cooper, a founder of the school, says Troupers’ classes for 1988 are well-booked.

She credits Troupers’ performance record with publicising the school. The school plans a number of productions for this year with shows being selected from the following: “Under Milk Wood” by Dylan Thomas, "The Seventh Seal” by Ingmar Bergman, “Agnes of God” by John Pielmeyer, “The Entertainer” by John Osborne, “Coriolanus” by Shakespeare, “The Maids” by Jean Genet, and “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.