RIDING LIGHTS THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS

FIVE THEATRE WORKSHOPS FOR ADULTS

FIVE THEATRE WORKSHOPS
for adults, aged 18+
All welcome - whatever your level of experience or ability!

Puppetry Tue 6 Nov
Improvisation Fri 9 Nov
Stanislavski Sat 17 Nov
Mime Tue 27 Nov
The Director And The Actor Sat 1 Dec

FRIARGATE THEATRE, YORK

Puppetry - with Kelvin Goodspeed
Tue 6 Nov, 7.00pm - 9.30pm, Friargate Theatre
£15.00
Quick to capture the imagination of young and old alike, puppetry and live animation remain an engaging, entertaining and often powerful medium for theatre and storytelling. And yet, however good your puppets might be, they do need a lot of help from human hands…This session works both as a very hands-on introduction to puppetry for those who have never picked up a puppet before, and as an opportunity for those who have to extend and refine their skills. Just come and play! Kelvin Goodspeed has worked as an actor/puppeteer with Norwich Puppet Theatre, Custard Factory Theatre Company and Riding Lights.

IMPROVISATION - with Lizi Patch
Fri 9 Nov, 7.00pm - 9.30pm, Friargate Theatre
£15.00
Suitable for beginners and more seasoned performers, this session will help you develop simple and effective techniques for encouraging spontaneity and originality. What makes a successful improvisation? Technique, that's what! Everyone can learn the art of successful improvisation and these skills are right at the heart of being a good performer. Work on games and exercises will enable you to unlock your imagination, trust your judgement and enjoy creating original material in a fun and supportive environment. This session will be run by Lizi Patch, Artistic Director of Raised Eyebrow Theatre Company. Lizi also runs the weekly Raised Eyebrow Youth Theatre in Pickering and, as part of C&T Theatre Company, is resident Drama Animateur at Woldgate College of Performing Arts, Pocklington.

Stanislavski - with Crystal Millard
Sat 17 Nov, 10.00am - 4.00pm, Friargate Theatre
£30.00
This workshop introduces some of Stanislavski's approaches to acting, which lead us through a series of steps from his 'system' to enable us to move towards a true creative state on stage. We start with Centering & Intention and move to exploring Focus & Changing Focus, Creativity, Imagining & Observing, Given Circumstances, Playing a Character, Engaging with the Play, Tempo Rhythym and The 'As If'. Crystal Millard is an Actor, Drama Practitioner & Teacher. She trained at The Central School of Speech & Drama and also worked there as a Drama Tutor after graduating. She has worked as an actor in both TV and Theatre and was also the North East regional producer for The National Theatre Shell Connections Festival of Youth Theatre and New Writing in 2005. She currently teaches A Level Drama & Theatre Studies at York College.

MIME - with Tom Jackson
Tue 27 Nov, 7.00pm - 9.30pm, Friargate Theatre
£15.00
Ever wondered how mime artists create those visual illusions so convincingly? Ever fancied trying yourself? Here's a workshop devoted solely to the skills of mime technique; fixed point, tac, body echo, stage movement and more! No prior skills are needed, just an enthusiasm to learn. The workshop will be structured from the basics through to the more challenging aspects of creating a mime, either solo or group piece. It's fun, but not difficult and you'll be amazed at how quickly you pick it up. The workshop will be taught by Tom Jackson, who has over 20 years of experience in teaching and performing mime, and has been involved with Riding Lights as a workshop facilitator for Riding Lights Youth Theatre over the past four years.

THE DIRECTOR AND THE ACTOR - with David Gann
Sat 1 Dec, 10.00am - 4.00pm, Friargate Theatre
£30.00
Come and explore some elements that inform how a director works. You will sometimes be actor and sometimes director, in order to explore the purpose of the director and how much the actor is either energised and enabled or creatively robbed and constrained by the director in the rehearsal process. This promises to be both fun and informative, and should help both budding and experienced directors to consider their art. Similarly it will also encourage actors to reflect on the rehearsal dynamic. The workshop will be accessible for a broad range of experience of either actor or director, and includes those that just want to discover a bit more about the theatre game.

Other show information correct as of Mon 8 October, 2007