LILO BAUR - LE JEU - Diorama Date: June 5th to 9th | Price: £200 | Places: 12 Lilo is an actress, director and teacher. She has worked with such directors as Peter Brook, Simon McBurney and Katie Mitchell. Most people will know her for her work with Complicite including playing the title role in The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol - for which she won numerous awards. Her directing work includes The Winters Tale, Une Puce A L’Oreille and The King Stag. She has been movement director on Simon McBurney’s The Chairs and The Causasian Chalk Circle both at the RNT. This workshop aims to find the playfulness in theatre. Children express their emotions (anger, joy, sadness, love) openly and fully. When you see children from different countries meeting for the first time, you realise how they immediately create their own language, their own code. They talk and play with each other through their new found rules and through their physicality. Via games and improvisations we will aim to re discover the child in us and the openness to dare again. A teacher of mine once said: 'The physicality is like the body of a king and the text is his crown'. We will be looking at some short stories and find new ways of telling them. BELLA MERLIN - Active analysis and the art of play - Diorama Date: June 12th to 16th | Price: £175 | Places: 12 (Maximum) Bella Merlin is an actor, writer, director and lecturer in Drama at Exeter University. Theatre includes David Hare's THE PERMANENT WAY, SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER and A LAUGHING MATTER, all for Max Stafford-Clark's Out of Joint Theatre Company and the National Theatre. Her Publications include BEYOND STANISLAVSKY (2001), KONSTANTIN STANISLAVSKY (2004), WITH THE ROGUE'S COMPANY: HENRY IV AT THE NATIONAL THEATRE (2005) and she is currently writing THE COMPLETE STANISLAVSKY TOOLKIT. In the first half of this week-long workshop, Bella Merlin introduces directors to psycho-physical aspects of acting processes drawn from Stanislavski, Michael Chekhov and Jerzy Grotowski to build a strong ensemble and a sense of play. The latter half of the week takes various dialogues to explore Stanislavski’s rehearsal practice of Active Analysis. This practice is improvisation-based, and aims to produce interaction between actors which is vibrant and honest. This is a challenging, but playful approach to text and performance. KATE MARAVAN - The Meisner Method - Actors Centre Date: June 17th to 21st | Price: £150 | Places: 12 (Maximum) The Meisner Technique is a valuable tool for unlocking impulse and spontaneity on the stage. Kate Maravan is a first rate teacher; encouraging, specific and methodical in her approach. When I studied with her I felt that within a short space of time, I had a clear grasp of all the basic principles of Sandford Meisner's process.Dominic Cooke - Artistic Director Designate Royal Court Theatre Kate Maravan is an actress, director and teacher. She has worked extensively in TV, radio and theatre and has written scripts for the BBC and Channel 4. She has worked closely with Scott Williams exploring and developing the Meisner Technique. She is a co-founder of White Box, a resident company at the Actors Centre producing and devising their own work including Angel Filth which she co-created and wrote. This is Kate’s second workshop for us. Sanford Meisner’s method uses key exercises to get to the core definition of acting: ‘acting is living truthfully in an imaginary set of circumstances’... It develops and encourages the actor’s impulsivity, spontaneity and ability to work in the moment. An introductory two days of the Meisner Technique will be followed by an exploration of the technique as it is applied to text. ROBERT BOWMAN - The Actor’s Perspective - Actors Centre Date: June 22nd to 26th | Price: £125 | Places: 12 (Maximum) Robert is Joint Artistic Director of Living Pictures and in 2007 Artistic Associate at the Bristol Old Vic. He is an Actor and Director, his influences include Stanislavski, NLP and Constellation work. His approach enables directors to get a deeper understanding of the actor’s perspective of rehearsal and performance. The workshop will cover Research, Objectives, Actions, Obstacles, Events, Relationships, Sense Data and Pictures amongst other areas to be considered when directing. The week will culminate with participants getting an opportunity to try out some of the techniques and receive feedback. He will be working from Brecht’s Fear and Misery in the Third Reich. |
| Living Pictures web site: www.livingpictures.org.uk |
| Elen Bowman e-mail: livingpictures@harrison65.freeserve.co.uk |
Wednesday, May 3, 2006 |
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