Lucy Kerbel: Actors' Centre Lunchtime Seminar
Join Lucy Kerbel, director of Tonic Theatre, for an empowering and inspiring discussion about achieving gender equality in theatre – and how you can play your part.
All Change Please: Achieving Gender Equality in Theatre
Part of The Actors Centre Lunchtime Seminars programme
Tristan Bates Theatre, London
Friday 9 June, 1pm - 2pm
Standard Tickets: £10 / £6 for Actors Centre members
Tickets available here
Jeannette Nelson: Fall In Love With Your Voice
A one day workshop to explore and develop your vocal technique.
Jeannette Nelson will lead you through the voice exercises she uses at the National Theatre to help you develop or enhance your authentic voice for the stage. You will then apply the techniques to texts of your choice.
Actors' Centre, London
7 June 2017
Book here.
Victoria Worsley: A Whole Body Approach to Voice and Breath
A day to explore how talking and breathing involves the whole of you, using the Feldenkrais Method.
What unconscious habits do you have in the way you stand and move that disrupts your breathing, distorts the channel for the breath or means you cannot make best use of the vocal apparatus or resonators? Can you do things differently? Can you roll about, get up and down from the floor, inhabit your character's (possibly terrible!) posture and yet still breathe and use your voice?
Actors' Centre, London
4 June 2017
Book tickets here.
Mike Bartlett on adapting King Charles III
Mike Bartlett talks to Francine Stock about adapting his hit play, King Charles III, for the BBC.
Saturday 27 May 2017, 1pm
Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye
Free but ticketed event (tickets available here)
Paul Clayton: Making the Meeting Work
Back by popular demand - a workshop designed to help you make the most out of all interviews and auditions.
Using role-play, and various other exercises, Paul Clayton will take you through a point by point plan to help you maximise your own personal effectiveness in an audition or casting interview. You will learn ways to turn what could be an interrogation into a conversation and how to ensure that the casting people get the chance to see the real you.
Actors' Centre, London
25 May 2017
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Alecky Blythe: Verbatim Theatre
This course is designed to teach you the specific verbatim technique in which Alecky specialises.
The scripts of all her shows are created from edited audio interviews. The acting technique requires the performers to wear earphones on stage through which they hear the interviews and copy the speech pattern of the interviewee precisely.
Actors' Centre, London
16 May 2017
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Stephen Unwin: Shakespeare Surgery
A workshop to help you speak Shakespeare clearly, dramatically and to the point.
Over two days, Stephen Unwin will work with you on speeches that you've either prepared or in which you are interested from anywhere in Shakespeare, and give you tips on how to balance the emotion with the thought, the poetic form with the psychological truth, the naturalism of the writing with its theatricality.
The Actors' Centre, London
8-9 May 2017
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Andy Nyman: The Golden Rules of Acting
Based on his hugely popular bestselling book, Andy Nyman will give an informal talk touching on his thinking and philosophies on what it takes to survive in the business. He will also answer any question you may have. Always totally honest and irreverent, it will be a frank and inspiring hour.
Tristan Bates Theatre, London
5 May 2017, 1-2pm
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Harriet Walter: Books by the Beach
Dame Harriet Walter talks about her new book Brutus and Other Heroines: Playing Shakespeare's Roles for Women in Scarborough's Books by the Beach festival.
Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough
30 April 2017, 7pm
Tickets: £10 available here
Harriet Walter: Redressing the Balance - Gender in Shakespeare
With recent productions of King Lear at the Old Vic, the Donmar’s trilogy of The Tempest, Henry IV and Julius Caesar, and the National Theatre's Twelfth Night in mind, a panel questions the reasons for, and challenges of, swapping the gender for some of Shakespeare’s key roles, and whether this makes them more relevant or accessible for today’s audience. What can an actress bring to these roles – and is there any fundamental difference in the way they must be played?
Guests include Harriet Walter, whose new book, Brutus and Other Heroines, is an exploration of the Shakespearean canon through the eyes of ‘a self-identified feminist actor’, as she describes herself.
Harriet Walter will be signing copies of her book, Brutus and Other Heroines, after the Platform.
Friday 31 March, 6pm
Running Time: 45 minutes approximately
Tickets £5 (£4 concessions) from www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/redressing-balance-gender-shakespeare
Harriet Walter: Off the Record
Harriet Walter in conversation with Paul Clayton, author and Chair of The Actors' Centre. Followed by a book signing.
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
Friday 24 March 2017, 1pm (60 mins)
For more information and tickets, visit the Actors' Centre website.
Harriet Walter: Topping & Co Bookshop event
Harriet Walter discusses her latest book, Brutus and Other Heroines, in a Topping & Co. event in Bath.
Christ Church, Julian Road, Bath, BA1 2RH
Saturday 18 March, 2017, 11:30am (doors open at 11:00)
Tickets: £5-8 from Topping & Co
Tonic Celebrates: Inspirational Women in Theatre
Join Tonic Theatre's Lucy Kerbel (author of 100 Great Plays for Women and the forthcoming All Change Please: A Practical Guide to Achieving Gender Equality in Theatre) for a celebration of women in theatre, a panel discussion with guests including playwright Moira Buffini, designer Vicki Mortimer, and the National Theatre's Director of Producing and Planning, Sacha Milroy.
Tonic Celebrates: Inspirational Women in Theatre, National Theatre, London, 23 February, 7.30pm. Tickets available from the National Theatre website here.
Victoria Worsley - an introduction to Feldenkrais for Actors
Used and adored by performers around the world, the Feldenkrais Method harnesses movement to enable you to feel, adapt and respond in new ways – thereby increasing your physical, emotional and mental potential. A hugely rich, cutting-edge technique, it can help actors in areas such as Presence and Posture, Emotion, Character and Creativity, Voice and Breath and much more.
In this Surviving Actors session, experienced actor, theatre-maker and Feldenkrais practitioner Victoria Worsley will show you first-hand how the Method works in practice and how it can help YOU – including a chance for participants to experience it for themselves.
Surviving Actors convention
Radisson Blu Portman Hotel, London W1
4 February 2017, 11.45am
To book tickets, visit the Surviving Actors website.
Andy Johnson - Excellent Auditions
Director Andy Johnson and The Artist Partnership’s Kaye Freeman aim to prepare you to have and give ‘excellent auditions’, whether it be for TV, Feature Film or the dreaded ‘General Meeting’, with their practical advice and tips.
Preparation is key to an excellent audition, and Andy & Kaye will be drawing on their industry experience to help you prepare for your next casting. How you should prepare, if you have the choice to bring a monologue – what should you pick, and finally the key dos and don'ts in an audition environment. A mix of practical exercises and time for questions throughout the session.
Surviving Actors convention
Radisson Blu Portman Hotel, London W1
4 February 2017, 12.45am
To book tickets, visit the Surviving Actors website.
Harriet Walter: Brutus and Other Heroines
Harriet Walter in conversation with RSC Artistic Director Gregory Doran, discussing Harriet’s new book Brutus and Other Heroines.
A chance to hear insights into the great heroines Harriet has played, including Helena, Viola, Imogen, Lady Macbeth, Beatrice and Cleopatra, and her thoughts on playing Shakespeare's mature male characters, Brutus, Henry IV and Prospero.
Swan Theatre, Monday 19 December 2016, 5 - 5.45pm. Tickets cost £5.
www.rsc.org.uk/events/harriet-walter-brutus-and-other-heroines
Fleabag and women in the theatre
Meet the cast and creative team of the hugely successful play and BBC show Fleabag. Playwright and actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge and director Vicky Jones are joined by Tonic Theatre’s Lucy Kerbel on a conversation about Fleabag and women in the theatre.
Soho Theatre, Saturday 10 December, 4pm
Running Time: 60 mins
Age recommendation: 16+
Tickets £5 from Soho Theatre
David Edgar & Ella Hickson on Shakespeare
David Edgar talks to Ella Hickson (Wendy & Peter Pan, Precious Little Talent, Eight, Boys, Oil) about her favourite scenes from Shakespeare and where she finds inspiration in his work.
David Edgar's plays include Destiny, Nicholas Nickleby, Pentecost and Written on the Heart. He is the author of How Plays Work.
12 November 2016
Studio Theatre@The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon
Book tickets here.
Joyce McMillan: Theatre in Scotland
Join Joyce McMillan, author of Theatre in Scotland, and Paul MacAlindin, author of Upbeat, the story of the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq, in conversation at the 20th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair.
Sunday 30 October 2016 at 2.30pm
Venue:
Out of the Blue Drill Hall
30-38 Dalmeny Street
Edinburgh
EH6 8RG
Scotland
Admission Free! Donations Welcome!
Event arranged by World Power Books, the independent online bookshop.
Antony Sher - Visualising Theatre (Autumn Art Lecture Series)
Antony Sher in conversation with Martin White (Emeritus Professor of Theatre at the University of Bristol)
25 October 2016, 6.15 pm, Wills Memorial Building, Queen's Road, Bristol, BS8 1RJ
When Antony Sher played Richard III, he published an account of his work on the part, Year of the King, which he subtitled ‘An Actor’s Diary and Sketchbook’. He is a gifted artist, and throughout his long and varied career has used his art to trace and capture his route to finding the essence of a particular role, to record his own and other actors’ work in rehearsal and often to produce more ‘finished’ paintings of the character who finally emerged. Exhibitions of his paintings and drawings have been held at the National Theatre, The London Jewish Cultural Centre, the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield and the Herbert Gallery in Coventry. In this conversation, drawing on examples of his own work, Sir Antony will discuss the relationship between his art and his acting.
Booking required via the online form.
