"Great fun, great company and great teaching - a fantastic way to build confidence and develop new theatre skills"
"Every session I have attended has brought enjoyment and pleasure and left me with a sense of achievement."
"Theatre Workshop is now the highlight of my week."
Held at the De Grey Rooms these workshops, begun in 2010, now move into their third year. They cover a wide range of dramatic disciplines and focus on expanding your experience, confidence and development. Whether you’re just beginning to explore acting or are looking to enhance your skills, participants are always welcome to learn in a comfortable, relaxed environment where the emphasis is on discovery and constructive learning.
The sessions are led by professional actor Michael Lambourne who has appeared in many shows at the Theatre Royal including My Family and other Animals, Two Planks and a Passion and Wind in the Willows. Michael has been a professional actor for over ten years and working on stage, screen and touring nationally and internationally. Sessions also feature regular master classes from other artists and practitioners as well as interactive classes on productions at the Theatre.
The term runs over ten weeks and this season will culminate in a performance of texts in the York Theatre Royal Studio. All students will be working on scripts throughout the term and will need to be free on the evening of Monday 26th March 2012.
Classes are popular and early booking is essential. Call Box Office on 01904 658162 for details. If you are interested in attending future sessions, wish to sign up for the mailing list or if you have any questions regarding the classes please email theatreworkshops@yorktheatreroyal.co.uk
This particular Winter/Spring course is a first for the Adult Theatre workshop as we work towards a sharing of our work at the end of the ten week term in the York Theatre Royal Studio. Students should therefore be prepared to work on texts each week for the final half hour of each session.
We begin as always with a stirring session of exercises and activities to get us working together again after our winter break. Students should bring along texts they are interested in using throughout the term. If you have a variety of choices bring them all along, the more material the better.
Letting your audience hear the text and see your presence within a space is essential to conveying, character and story. We’ll work to towards gaining comfort in voice, control and projection.
A subtle change of tone, an inflection coupled with gesture. We’ll try to bring depth to your performance by attaching feeling through association. Making you feel can affect your voice and body in amazing and interesting ways.
How you position your body and its relationship to the people and world around you is something to consider always whilst on stage. You are passing messages to an audience simply by the way you appear. In the session we’ll try to unlock the subtle aspects of space that so enhance a story.
To engage with an audience and fellow actors I’ve always thought it essential to remember the sense of ‘play’. Within this session we’ll seek to understand the sense of joy and camaraderie there is in expressing this most useful of tools
These sessions will focus on our pieces in earnest as well as our work on core performance disciplines
Our final chance to iron out the work before the performance the following week. All students MUST be present at this class.
Final details will develop throughout the term but students should try to be free between 6 - 10:30pm
Please note this terms classes are at capacity, please call Box Office for more information
