Course F: Keeping it Real with Patrick Sutton
Tuesday, March 4th, 2014 at 9:54 am | News & Events
This is a course for actors and directors and those who want to be. Keeping it Real is an opportunity to jump in and explore acting and directing in a dynamic and fun environment. This course will explore the fundamentals of the actors craft (breath, silence, gesture, words, spontaneity) using monologues and short original scenes along with exploring in greater depth scenes from Synge’s “Playboy of The Western World” and McDonagh’s “The Cripple of Inishmaan”. Directors will have an opportunity to discover and develop the most effective means of bringing page to stage.
Each day will offer participants the opportunity to put the practical skills learned, into performance context, through the preparation of monologues and short scenes for presentation.
Participants will grow in confidence with a practical toolkit that can be easily unpacked following the course, to be used for the making of scenes that are alive, interesting and spontaneous. This will make for stage productions of quality and substance, which will entertain and excite audiences.
Patrick Sutton is Director of The Gaiety School of Acting-The National Theatre School of Ireland. He is also the Director of the Newly established Smock Alley Theatre 1662. Trained at Dartington College of Arts, England, Patrick graduated in 1980 with an honours theatre degree.
He has recently received his MA in Screenwriting from IADT. He has worked extensively as an actor in Ireland, England and France. Patrick is a former Director of Plymouth Action Community Theatre, The National Festival of Youth Theatres, Ireland, Wexford Arts Centre, and Artistic Director of TEAM Theatre Company. Patrick has worked at a senior level in politics, industry and the arts. He was a government appointee to the board of The Irish Arts Council where he acted as chairman of the grants and business and finance subcommittees (1997-2005) From 2005-2009 he served on the board of Culture Ireland, the International Irish arts promotion agency.
Patrick is a former Government appointee to the board of The Irish Museum of Modern Art. He is a former board member of Storytellers Theatre Company and The Project Arts Centre. He is currently a board member of The Lisa Richards Actors agency, The Arts for Peace Foundation, The Gaiety School of Acting and Smock Alley Theatre. Most recently he has been appointed to the Governing Authority of The Dublin Institute of Technology. Patrick is also Director of Communicate, a communications company working at senior level in Industry Politics and the Arts.