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STAGE CRAFT@'MENU'
​Our classes really are tailored to you. Each 5 week block's focus is chosen by our membership to suit the needs and wants of the ensemble. The 4th week always has a visiting practitioner with something a little bit special! In the past we've had industry professionals lead sessions on Screen Acting, intimacy Co-ordination, Voiceover work, Agents and casting and more.
Our menu is constantly growing! but here's a sample of modules we offer.
Scene Study, Character Development, & the World of the play
Get to grips with yourself as a performer and artist. Learn about how to approach, build, and become characters. Experience the parameters of a professional rehearsal room. Get your teeth into text and scene study supported in real time by a professional director.
Improvisation
Learn the golden rules of short and long form Improv (and how best to break them!) Develop trust, flow, and generosity. Nurture confidence, spontaneity, silliness and play. Experience improvisation for both comedy and straight drama and it's use in the rehearsal room.
A lot of this work draws on practitioner Keith Johnston.
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Voice & Accents
Explore good vocal health, support, and quality. Discover your voice, and your character's. Experiment with the myriad ways to approach learning and practicing any accent. Dive into the world of the voice industry and radio plays. Develop your singing.
Physical Theatre and Unconventional Storytelling
Explore the worlds of LeCoq, mime, Berkoff, mask work, puppetry, Commedia Del'arte and a selection of less conventional story telling techniques
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Shakespeare
Understand the Bard! Both his plays and how to play them through tried and tested, but more importantly, lateral and accessible techniques. Explore Iambic Pentameter, monologues and duologues, imagery and antithesis, the sonnets and Shakespeare's elizabethan world (with a bit of folk song, dance, and stage combat for good measure...).
The Stanislavsky toolkit
We explore sense memory, animal study, points of concentration, given and immediate circumstances, relaxation, objectives, superobjectives, obstacles, units, actions and subtext - the list goes on.
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Laban
Stanislavsky holds the 'inside out' approach, Rudolf Laban leans into the 'outside in'. Explore his eight efforts through time, space, and weight. Understand your body and the kinosphere. Learn about truth on stage through movement and physicality first.
Professional Development and Industry Practice
We talk agents, casting directors, the rehearsal room, equity, spotlight, headshots, show and voice reels. We discuss emails, reviews, the 'jobbing actor', side hustles, professional relationships and Networking. How does an actor stay motivated?
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Audition Technique
We explore the psychology and intricacies of auditions. We play with practice panels, the unexpected, how to prepare and how to deal with anxieties and nerves. We have a focus in stage craft on retaining the actors dignity and autonomy. we explore self tapes, 1:1 auditions, group workshop auditions and commercial castings.
Musical Theatre
Explore the world of Musical Theatre. This block is full of exciting professional visiting practitioners. Learn choreography, get comfortable with solo and ensemble singing. Develop your acting through song skills.
Collaborative Devised Theatre and New Writing
Explores a plethora of ways to create a piece as a group and as an individual. We start from several different stimuli and navigate the worlds of dramaturgy, the 'writer in the room' process, R&Ds, improvisation and much much more.
American Realism
American Realism refers to the big american plays by playwrights such as Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller.
We learn about the context in which these plays were written and why they were so vital and hold up today. We develop scenes from these classics together.
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