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Theatre Workshops

Include a theatre workshop in your trip to London

All of the following workshops involve exercises used in Drama School training and professional theatre rehearsals. All workshops are interactive, with emphasis on students participation, learning new techniques, developing confidence, and improving their understanding of theatre and performance.

Each workshop lasts for two hours, and is either self contained, or can be tailored to a groups interests and abilities, focusing on a chosen production if required.

Workshop Summaries

Theatre 101: A fun workshop for students with little or no experience of theatre.

  • Actors Warm-up, including breath control and focus

  • Improvisation games to develop imagination and creativity
  • Space Awareness / Movement 
  • Image theatre and story-telling
  • Gestures, Expressions and Clowning 
  • Communication Technique

Acting. Exercises vary depending on age and experience, and can include the following exercises:

  • Actors warm-up, including breath control and focus

  • Improvisation games to develop imagination and creativity
  • Space Awareness „h Emotional Memory: Stanislavsky
  • Character development (based on selected productions)
  • Physicality and Movement (exploring physical gesture and expression)
  • Colour / Animal Associations „h Voice and Speech
  • Non verbal sounds in performance „h Sphere¡¦s of performance
  • Persona, Stereotype, Characterisation & Truth

Shakespeare: Performance techniques to read and play Shakespeare

  • Actors warm-up, including breath control and focus

  • Introduction to Shakespeare¡¦s language and techniques  - Verse/Prose
  • Speaking Shakespeare - vocal difference between Verse & Prose
  • Acting Shakespeare - how Shakespeare directs the actor
  • Intentions and Emotional Projections 
  • Character Analysis - Traditional Stereo-types
  • Breaking the Stereotype 
  • Text / Scene analysis and performance

Story Telling: A fully interactive workshop with the group creating its own stories.

  • Actors warm up, including physical and vocal exercises

  • Improvisation games to develop imagination and creativity
  • A picture paints a thousand words: Creating group tableaux stories
  • Story telling exercises, using inspiration from personal items, photographs and letters
  •  - And then group story telling exercise
  • Life stories

We Can Do It: A devised theatre workshop, exploring techniques used by historical and contemporary theatre practitioners. Most suited for ages 13+.

  • Actors warm-up, including physical and vocal exercises, breath control and focus

  • The Self - exploration of our physical structure and abilities/limits
  • Space awareness, non-verbal communication and physical improvisation
  • Image Theatre, devising from tableaux
  • The Machine: Group images and creation of performances
  • Text: Creation of performance from poetry and play texts
  • Lines: focus and interaction exercise

Are You Feeling Wicked? - Some people are born wicked, others have wickedness thrust upon them
A self-reflective workshop on identity - exploring what makes us unique?

  • Actors warm-up, including physical and vocal exercises, breath control and focus

  • The Self - exploration of our physical selves, our abilities and our limits
  • Physical characterisation 
  • Are we defined by the labels society gives us?
  • Creation of performance from our own labels.
  • Expanding our horizons, exploring our desires and dreams through non verbal performance
  • Emotional memory, colour therapy and animal associations