Theatre Making Approaches Workshop – Neil Haigh
Where? The Front Room, BS23 1FF
When?
Time: 10:00am - 2:00pm
Part of Front Room's Improv Weekender
Join award winning theatre maker and actor Neil Haigh for this one-off workshop and explore how to create exciting, dynamic & playful theatre using only ourselves and a few basic scene or story ideas. (Age 16+, over 50’s welcome!)
Over an intensive 4 hrs the workshop will endeavour to cover:
Playful approaches to acting – (openness, complicity, theatre as ‘game’)
Physical/non-psychological approaches to scenes – techniques for narrative, generating new material & ‘character’Imagery, atmosphere & ‘heightened’ theatricality for narrative content – (non ‘text-led’ storytelling)
Scene Creation – using some or all of these techniques from visual stimuli (group/ensemble devising work)
This workshop is ideally suited for those with some prior acting and/or theatre making experience, but you do NOT have to be a professional actor. You might be looking for theatre making techniques for your own work, wishing to compliment existing studies, or just keen to explore a new area in theatre…whatever the case – just bring yourself, a sense of fun and a preparedness to try with no pressure to ‘succeed’ or ‘get it right’.
* The first half (approx) of the workshop will focus on techniques and how to generate content, and the second half on applying them to specific, provided scenarios and visual stimuli
* Whilst approaches to Acting make up a part of this workshop, the emphasis is more on theatre making & how to generate and explore content and meaning
*Some movement will form part of the workshop but there is no requirement to be ‘athletic’ and no upper age limit. Neil Haigh will happily work with whatever access requirements you may need, so please do let us know in advance!
About Neil:
Studied Acting & Devising with John Wright (Trestle, Told By An Idiot) and has since forged a career as an actor on stage and screen. He has also made over 30 professional productions and was Co-Artistic Director of the acclaimed Cartoon de Salvo Theatre Co, making nationally and internationally recognised work over 15 yrs, from Village Halls across the land to co-productions with major venues, and in Hong Kong and the Kennedy Centre Washington DC. He has made and acted in work with Sound&Fury, SHUNT, Inspector Sands, National Theatre Studio, Young Vic, Gonzo Moose & FUEL Theatre.
Doors Open at 9:45AM
