Wales based charity, the Drama Association of Wales (DAW), announces the launch of its latest training project – THEATRE SUMMER SCHOOL 2010. A week-long residential training holiday designed for amateur actors and directors. Reap the benefits of a week of working hard and playing hard at our Summer School all for the price of a last minute bargain holiday! And through some canny negotiations we’ve managed to keep the price the same as last year!ACTING THE BARD tutored by Richard Cheshire The course will utilise various acting exercises, techniques and methodologies used by leading contemporary theatre directors which are specifically designed to help actors of all ages. The workshops will focus on: · Acting verse and prose · Physicalising and embodying the language · Detecting Shakespeare’s clues for the actor · Discovering the given circumstances of the character · Objectives and intentions · The actor’s target · Thought-to-thought impulses · Living in the world of the play Members of the group will explore characters and scenes from a selection of Shakespeare’s plays. Richard believes that learning should be fun and the course is suitable and accessible for beginners as well as more experienced actors who want to refresh their skills and approaches to performing Shakespeare. THE WORK OF HAROLD PINTER tutored by Peter Wooldridge The course will explore the work of Harold Pinter with particular reference to his play Betrayal. Still widely regarded as one of his greatest works, the play charts Pinter’s seven year affair with the television presenter Joan Bakewell. The course will also touch on the recently published memoirs of Lady Antonia Fraser and Bakewell’s autobiography The Centre of the Bed. As part of the exploration there may also be opportunities to devise scenes around the central theme of betrayal. Peter always introduces acting exercises into his workshops as a means to understanding and approaching the text. These have been tried and tested and have a relevance for the beginner as well as the more experienced performer. There will also be some time devoted to performing on camera. We offer discounts to DAW Individual members which means you can book on to this course for as little as £440. And that includes tuition, accommodation and all meals! For full course details contact: Gary Thomas, DAW, The Old Library, Singleton Road , Cardiff CF24 2ET (T) 029 2045 2200 (E) gary@dramawales.org.uk (W) www.dramawales.org.uk |
| Drama Association of Wales web site: www.dramawales.org.uk |
| Gary Thomas e-mail: gary@dramawales.org.uk |
Friday, March 12, 2010 |
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