The writer discusses his play, Angels in America, in a National Theatre Platform chaired by Ola Animashawun.

Lyttelton Theatre, Friday 30 June, 5.30pm
Tickets £5 (£4 concessions) available from the National Theatre

The writer discusses his play, Angels in America, in a National Theatre Platform chaired by Ola Animashawun.

Participants will experience the unexpected ways in which the emotions and the imagination are awakened by sensory stimuli.

The workshop serves as an opportunity to re-engage with the everyday world and experience it in a way that is vivid. It works towards strengthening emotional connections and expanding the imagination. We will also look at applications that can be made towards the creation of a character.

Actors' Centre, London
27 June 2017
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A one-day workshop to help you to improve your acting through song – by applying some of the best techniques available in contemporary actor-training.

You will learn to how to act and react truthfully and spontaneously – by learning how to follow your impulses in the complex environment of the professional audition room.

Actors' Centre, London
24 June 2017
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A full-day workshop that will help you to understand your casting-type, how to choose a monologue that best suits you, and how to prepare for an audition.

Drawing from an extensive list of contemporary monologues from plays published by Nick Hern Books, you will be able to choose pieces that fit your casting type, that give you scope both dramatically and comically, and that allow you to show case your own individual talent. In the second half we will be exploring the best methods to take a monologue from page to stage and looking at ways to get the most out of an audition.

Actors' Centre, London
14 June 2017
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A different way to look at text preparation through muscle memory and elemental connections.

Over several decades, Mel Churcher has been developing a toolbox that is successful for preparation work in film and theatre. This is the latest version!

Actors' Centre, London
13 June 2017
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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

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
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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
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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)

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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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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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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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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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

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 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 in conversation with Paul Clayton, author and Chair of The Actors' Centre. Followed by a book signing.

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

Harriet Walter discusses her latest book, Brutus and Other Heroines, in a Topping & Co. event in Bath.

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.

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.

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.