Course C: Getting the Show On the Road with Sue Colgrave
Tuesday, March 4th, 2014 at 9:57 am | News & Events
This is a workshop for experienced actors and directors.
This workshop will explore approaches to interpreting text and devised material and it’s relationship to the audience. It seeks to extend skills of theatrical communication, physical and vocal choices and dramatic structuring by encouraging the development of a personal process.
The sessions will have an eclectic approach and include exercises developed by Utah Hagen, Stanislavski, Brecht and Sanford Meisner.
The participants will:
- Work on theatre games and exercises designed to create the ensemble and encourage spontaneity and develop the imagination
- Locate the essence of a scene, it’s meaning, themes and intentions and experiment with realising it.
- Explore playing objectives and other rehearsal techniques, working from text and improvisation
- Look at character and explore the tools available to actor and director to bring it to life
- Experiment with Montague, Tableaux and Physical Storytelling working from visual, audio and thematic stimuli
- Experience working with a variety of stage configurations and actor/audience relationships
- Create performance environments, setting significant props and use of garments
- Work with a number of different performance forms
For this workshop, the participant will work with both devised material and contemporary texts, including Compliciate, Carly Churchill, Tanya Rhonda and Joan Littlewood. Workshop leader will provide material. Participants should bring a selection of CDs from different epochs and cultures, also hats, scarves, gloves etc and a variety of footwear from slippers to stilettos! Any old newspapers and pieces of fabric would also be useful.
Previous participants will find something familiar and something new. Everyone should be prepared to struggle, sweat a little, laugh a lot and bring their imagination and courage.
Sue Colgrave has been a theatre Practioner for over 30 years. As an actress she worked extensively in theatre, television and radio.
As a director her work has encompassed a wide range of material from Shakespeare, Brecht, Berkov through to cabaret and Contemporary Opera.
She was part of the pioneering teaching team on the Community Theatre Arts Course at Rose Bruford College. She held a number of posts within the institution culminating in leading the colleges 4 degrees in Directing, Acting, Writing and Actor Musicianship as Head of the School of Theatre.
As developer, documentor and teacher her expertise covers many areas of theatre practice and actor training. She has guided over 3000 students towards a career in the theatre and related arts creating over 50 original plays along the way!
Her long term collaboration with composer and musician, Colin Sell, resulted in the creating of the innovative Actor Musician Degree for Rose Bruford College.
She continues freelance acting coaching and directing both for professional companies and London’s leading Drama Schools.
Directing work has taken her to France,Austria, India and Romania. Theatrical passions include Stephen Sondheim , Caryl Churchill, Richard Bean, Simon Stephens, The Wire and Breaking Bad!