Brush up on your Street Theatre Skills in advance of Dublin’s Patrick’s Day Festival
Wednesday, March 4th, 2015 at 4:06 pm | News & Events
We are delighted to offer a one day workshop in ‘Street theatre and theatre in non-traditional spaces’ in association with Wet Picnic (UK) on Sunday 15th March 2015 at the Gaiety School of Acting, Essex Street West in Temple Bar from 10am to 5pm.
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The workshop will focus on developing improvisation skills and close contact work with audiences which are the bedrock for presenting work in the street or other unusual spaces. Students will explore the different models of street theatre and look at how these can be adapted and used to build site specific work, a street theatre piece or enhance an indoor show.
Working with Wet Picnic’s Artistic Director Matt Feerick this workshop is for theatre makers of all backgrounds who are interested in exploring the fast growing non-traditional theatre setting.
Matt trained at Ecole Jacques Lecoq, Paris and is currently co-director at two National Theatres in France. As well as leading on the creative work made by Wet Picnic, Matt works as an associate director and performer for a number of companies both in the UK and abroad.
Wet Picnic is a devised theatre ensemble that creates high-impact visual and physical theatre for everyone. Not bound by space or location, the company takes its shows wherever there are people to watch: indoors and outdoors; in conventional and unconventional spaces. In the UK and abroad, they have a strong record of collaboration and as such are a resident theatre company of The Point and Jacksons Lane in the UK as well as being a member of ZEPA.
Matt Feerick notes ‘I am delighted to be bringing this workshop to Dublin, especially to an institution like the Gaiety School of Acting, which has such a strong international reputation in the world of acting and theatre. We hope this workshop will benefit Irish Street performers and those interested in working in theatre in non-tradition spaces with the tools necessary to present their work in unconventional settings’.
Patrick Sutton, Director of the Gaiety School of Acting agrees ‘We are delighted to team up with Wet Picnic UK to present this one off workshop. We always strive to offer new and exciting performance-based workshops to Irish audiences. It is particularly fitting that this course is taking place at our school in Temple Bar, in the heart of Dublin’s Cultural Quarter, in advance of the St.
Patrick’s Day Festival which will see street performers from all over the world flock to the city’.
