A practical approach to acting on stage
Shakespeare (and a few of his contemporaries.)
Monday 28th May - Friday 1st June
Time: 10am - 4pm each day
Cost: €150
Website:Loose Canon
How does an actor avoid becoming a mouthpiece for the writer? What is it, of themselves, that meets the text, challenges, contradicts, and ultimately fuses with its form to give it life? Speaking verse: what does this actually mean? What is actually required? Is it an actor’s job to reveal the meaning of a complex poetical text? Or is it an actor’s job to get out of the way of a complex poetical text? To be a vehicle, a channel? What is an actor’s job..?
These questions are the starting point for our third workshop in the series called ‘Action and Intention’. And Shakespeare is mainly the focus. Drawing on over 17 years experience as a theatre director and researcher into the art of acting, Jason will demonstrate how a practical understanding of these tools can help to create performances that are characterized not only by truth, but also great expressive power.
To apply email loosecanonwork@gmail.com, tell us a little about yourself and what you hope to get from the workshop.
Loose Canon Theatre Company is fourteen years old. Like many fourteen year olds it spends plenty of time in bathrooms obsessing about things. It then puts these things into plays.
We are not predictable, we love change. Sometimes we cut things up and devise things to make plays that say what we want to say. And you’ll want to hear what we have to say. Really, you will.
Loose Canon Theatre Company started in 1996. For its first few years it was known for critically-acclaimed productions of Elizabethan and Jacobean texts.
From 2000 to 2004 the company was one of the few in Irish theatre to maintain a full-time ensemble. During this time the company’s actors developed a daily practice of physical and vocal training, and improvisation. Strong links were forged with Irish composers, musicians, designers, and academics, who often worked with the company both in training and performance. Loose Canon were also lucky enough to be mentored and guided by various international practitioners.
Then the children came.
Now everything is more fluid. We still work together but in different ways, at different times, and on different projects.
Catherine Wheels Theatre presents:
Thursday June 21st - Tuesday June 26th
Duration: 45mins
Time: 10.30am, 1.30pm
Tickets: €8, Schools €6, family ticket €24 - For children aged 2–4 years
“An utter delight no matter what your age“ The Times
Welcome to the beautifully strange world of White. Full of birdsong and birdhouses, it gleams and dazzles and shines in the night. Two friends look after the birdhouses and make sure the eggs stay safe. The world is bright, ordered and white. But high up in the trees, all is not white. Colour appears. First red... then yellow... then blue...
White is a playful show for very young children and is a perfect first time theatre experience for the very young and their guardians.
Catherine Wheels is an award-winning and internationally acclaimed children’s theatre company. Winner of many major awards,White has toured to venues across the globe, including London’s Southbank Centre, Sydney Opera House and the New Victory Theater, New York
