The aim of TheatreSpace is to create imaginative, spontaneous and entertaining theatre inspiring curiosity, wonder and mirth as much in the players as in the audience. ‘TheatreSpace’ combines query, imagination, will, intention, invention, time and place. At its heart is the fool – trickster, poet, shape-shifter, clown, hall of mirrors and innocent.
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On stage... |
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Transformation Spontaneity |
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...at home... |
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...in the studio |
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at school |
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Storytelling and Narrative. Its structures, conventions, forms and applications. Plot types, the three acts and how different roles are played by the narrator(s). When you know the rules, what fun can you have tipping them over? Liquid Language—Theatre and Metaphor. Play with language to create meaning. Embody a word or phrase. Language becomes physical. Make a prop. On being an ensemble. The workshops centre on chorus theatre. While every individual plays a part, the emphasis is on how the group performs as a whole, supporting a creative and encouraging environment. The practise of yielding to a group momentum is one which enables an immensely powerful creativity to happen. Creative License. How does The Player respond – to an impulse, to a touch, to an emotion, to themselves, to each other, to the surroundings, to an invitation? Stagecraft. Let’s learn about how to balance the stage, accept offers, project our voices, meet the audience (and be the audience!), relax, move, be still… Let’s make tableaux, let’s speak through emotion, and act with courage. Let’s find out where impulses go when they are not followed. Let’s improvise with a text, and practise to be spontaneous |
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A Guide to TheatreSpace Workshops |
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kind regards, Simon Blakeman |