Honing craft. Freeing Impulse.
A month long course designed for professional actors who want to take their process and craft to the next level.
On the course we will work on:
- Text work
- Character development
- Emotional preparation
in order to stretch your range, deepen your imagination, and encourage impulsive, free and specific work.
We’ll be working to cultivate spontaneity, listening and responsiveness, so that your instrument remains flexible, alive, and present to the shifts in your partner. We’ll focus on truthful response through strong, specific imagination, so that you are “living truthful under imaginary circumstances”.
You will be given a 2 or 3 person scene to work on for the duration.
Below is a rough timetable of the course:
Please note this is provisional, and will be adapted to the needs of the group as the course grows and evokes.
Session 1 Introduction: Deep Listening & Script Analysis
Session 2 Discovering strong needs & shifts in the scene
Session 3 Discovering strong needs & shifts in the scene
Session 4 Beats: Playing with specificity
Session 5 Given Circumstances: Deepening the Imagination
Session 6 Given Circumstances: Deepening the Imagination
If you’d like to apply as a pair, or a three, please highlight in your email who you would like to be paired with. If not, we will allocate you a scene partner. It is likely we will all work on the same source material, but if this doesn’t happen, you may be invited to chose your own.
When
10am - 5pm
Wednesday 16th April
Friday 18th April
Wednesday 23rd April
Friday 25th April
Wednesday 30th April
Friday 2nd April
Where
Theatre Deli
107 Leadenhall Street
EC3A 4AF
Payment
Price £300
Deadline to book is Friday 28th March
Deposit If you need to pay in increments the option to pay a deposit of £100 is available at checkout. Deadline to pay the full balance is Friday 28th March. If you would like to discuss an alternative payment plan, please get in touch at info@lidlesstheatre.com and we’d be happy to discuss.
We do ask that you’re able to roughly commit to the majority of the sessions, as you’ll be working on scenes with others. The course is a flat fee. For any sessions missed, audio of parts of the session may be recorded, and information on the material covered will be sent out as well.