The 40th Apprentice/Intern Company at Actors Theatre of Louisville Presents
Our Unspoken Word(s)
The Rudyard Kipling, 422 W. Oak St.
November 28, at 8 p.m.
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Cliques, crushes, bullies, parents, gossip, pimples—sources for high school angst are endless. Yet teenage tribulations often go unexpressed, lacking creative outlets and spaces for honest communication. Our Unspoken Word(s) explores topics like divorce, body image, and sexuality from a teenage perspective, taking the audience through an average day in the life of seven high school students. Communicating only through Spoken Word Poetry, haikus, and song lyrics, these teenagers take the stage and turn up their volume from a whisper to a RAWR.
Our Unspoken Word(s) is the third in a three part series of workshop performances developed by the A/I Company this season. The series consists of original devised work created by the Acting Apprentice Company. Seven Apprentices have collaborated together to create this piece: the group calls themselves “R.A.W.R.” for Raising Awareness, Writing Reality. The group’s mission is to engage young audiences with Spoken Word, using language and rhythm to explore the teenage experience with honesty, humor and spirit.
Molly Clasen, the project’s Dramaturg, helps define the nature of Spoken Word as a theatrical art form…
Spoken Word is the fastest growing grass roots poetry movement in history of America. The genre contains a diversity of styles such as hip hop, cowboy poetry, and musical poetry. Poetry slams are particularly popular Spoken Word events, inviting audiences to judge poets who compete against each other for points. More than forty American cities sponsor poetry slams, an astonishing fact considering the first slam happened only twenty-five years ago, invented by a construction worker in Chicago bar. There are three nationally sanctioned annual contests, and every continent—including Antarctica—participates in poetry slams. Combining the immediacy of theatre with the heightened language of poetry, Spoken Word’s influence continues to grow and provide a platform for emerging voices.
The Ensemble features the talent of: J. Alexander Coe, Erika Diehl, Kanome Jones, Katie Medford, Chris Reid, Calvin Smith, and Trent Stork.
R.A.W.R. – Our Unspoken Word(s)
The Rudyard Kipling
422 W. Oak Street, Louisville KY
November 28, 8 p.m.
“R.A.W.R. – Raising Awareness, Writing Reality”
Admission is free and open to the public.