Workshop in theatre skills offered

Tonight Ohio University students will have the chance to gain some acting skills that were perfected in the land down under.

Australian author and researcher Elisabeth Burke is presenting a program of theater exercises for building cooperation at 7:30 p.m. in 311 Gordy Hall.

Burke has been the co-artistic director of Australia's training-based theater company for 20 years. She has been using these exercises to improve relations among diverse groups, according to a news release.

Her most recent work was with a community theater project that brought more than 70 performers together to interpret Dante's Inferno through music and narration. The production was said to have broken down barriers and focused on values shared in the arts and business communities.

Burke will be in Athens all week and will be participating in the OU Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics conference on Saturday, said Kathleen Evans-Romaine, assistant director of the institute.

For more information about Burke's techniques and skills, contact Evans-Romaine at 740-593-9802 or ethics@ohiou.edu.

-Kristin Howard