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Honing craft. Freeing Impulse.
A 10 week 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.
Week 1 Introduction: Deep Listening & Script Analysis
Week 2 The reality of doing: scenic action
Week 3 Character Work: Physical investigation
Week 4 Discovering strong needs & shifts in the scene
Week 5 Discovering strong needs & shifts in the scene
Week 6 Character: Laban Efforts
Week 7 Finding specificity: Beats in a scene
Week 8 Character: Body & Deep Desires
Week 9 Weaving in the Given Circumstances
Week 10 Weaving in the Given Circumstances
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.
Dates and times
When
10 Mondays 6pm - 9pm
Monday 25th September
Monday 2nd October
Monday 9th October
Monday 16th October
Monday 23rd October
Monday 30th October
Monday 6th November
Monday 13th November
Monday 20th November
Monday 27th November
Where
Theatre Deli
107 Leadenhall Street
EC3A 4AF
Payment
Price £200
Deadline to book is Friday 15th September
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 15th September. 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.