June 17, 2010

THE ACTORS LABORATORY: FIRST WINTER SEASON WORHSOPS  

Kia Ora,



We are extremely excited to announce two workshops with renowned theatre director Christian Penny, the first of the The Actors Laboratory winter season.

A Director principally, Christian has worked in a range of fields developing new New Zealand theatre works ranging from new plays, devised works, community theatre projects and most recently Opera. Christian is currently the Associate Director of Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School. He has been the leader of the Masters Degree in Direction there for the last seven years.


Saturday 3rd July: Text, play and discovery



We will spend the day exploring short pieces of text from Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull. We will look at how we can employ a spirit of play and risk, matched with our own instincts and apply these to the text. Our aim is vibrant, inhabited, performances.  We will play games. We will explore intentions and beats. We will enact the scenes. Participants can expect to work both on the text and in their bodies, take risks, have fun and be stretched.



$40

10am – 4pm

TAPAC

100 Motions road, Western Springs (opposite the ZOO!)



4th July: Directing



We will look at the work of directing and apply it to Chekhov’s The Seagull. We will spend some time focusing on the Meta questions embedded in the work and then direct each other in small excerpts. Participants can expect to explore directing in theory and practice at beginning, intermediate or advanced levels.



 $40

10am – 4pm

TAPAC

100 Motions road, Western Springs (opposite the ZOO!)



Respond to Rachel Forman < ak.actors.lab@gmail.com > ASAP if you are interested in either or both of these workshops. We require 50% of the fee straight up, however let us know if you’d like to arrange a payment plan, we know what it’s like to be a struggling artist!!

Feel free to forward this message onto anyone else who might be interested.

Best,

Rachel and Sam
The Actors Laboratory


Stay tuned for some exciting voice workshops coming up in August. D’Arcy Smith will be teaching "The Voice in Violence"- how to shout, scream, cough, choke, and add aggression to the voice in the healthiest way! As well as an American Accent workshop .