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 The reality of doing: scenic action

Session 3 Character Work: Physical investigation

Session 4 Discovering strong needs & shifts in the scene

Session 5 Character: Laban Efforts

Session 6 Finding specificity: Beats in a scene

Session 7 Character: Body & Deep Desires

Session 8 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.

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Dates and times

When

4 Fridays 10am - 5pm.

2 ‘sessions’ per day, morning and afternoon.

Friday 12th July

Friday 19th July

Friday 26th July

Friday 2nd August

Where

Theatre Deli

107 Leadenhall Street

EC3A 4AF

Payment

Price £160

Deadline to book is Monday 8th July

Deposit If you need to pay in increments the option to pay a deposit of £60 is available - please get in touch at info@lidlesstheatre.com and we’d be happy to arrange. Deadline to pay the full balance is Monday 8th July.

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.