Act one: take to the stage!

Course details

In our 'get creative' week workshop, your child will immerse themselves in the world of theatre with our interactive drama sessions, suitable for all abilities and levels. Whilst they learn performing arts skills, the week will entwine acting methods, vocal technique and physical theatre culminating in a powerful end-of-week show for family and friends. Workshops include:- improvisation exercises and scene rehearsal taking inspiration from practitioners such as Stanislavski, Brecht and Berkoff.

So join us for fun, make new friends, and stretch their imagination, while tutored by a teaching professional who has worked in the industry for over twenty years.

Act one - Get Creative Week

• Day one - introduction
  Games, icebreakers and exercises incorporating discipline confidence and trust.
  Skills: characterisation, physical theatre, tableau work.
• Day two - building on our skills
  Script work, including analysis, subtext,given circumstance, objectives and super objectives.
  Skills: mime, fourth wall
• Day three - The story begins
  Devising improvisation on a given stimuli
  Skills: soundscape, blocking, setting, improvisation both spontaneous and devised.
• Day four - finishing the story
  Finish devising improvisation adding in final touches
  Skills: critiquing, teamwork, creativity
• Day five - showtime
  Rehearse and put on a showcase for family and friends
  Skills: confidence, listening and responding, narrative, communication and imagined situation, performing in front of an audience.