IN THE ROOM!!!!

The Actor is the Theatre!

The Journey from 
Inspiration to Application
Galway City
August 17th, 18th,19th and 20th

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE  ACTOR IS THE THEATRE.

THE JOURNEY FROM INSPIRATION TO APPLICATION

only two more spaces remaining

 

EXPLORE THE RESOURCES OF THE ACTORS BODY AND IMAGINATION AS A LAUNCHPAD FOR THE ENTIRE THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE –  

Actors often feel overwhelmed at the beginning of a creative task. Where to begin?

This workshop will explore and examine the body and psychology of the actor, the imagination and the voice as a radiating instrument. 

 

THE COST IS 300 FOR FOUR DAYS TRAINING WITH SOME CONCESSIONS AVAILABLE. TALK TO US TO DISCUSS THIS IF YOU NEED TO  .  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The workshop is led by Declan Drohan and Max Hafler and will be held in Galway City from the 17th-20th August 10- 5 and 10-4 on the final day.
email chekhovtpi@gmail.com to book your place 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

​Autumn online courses!

Archetypes and Shakespeare

 

Online

Dates Tues Sept 10th – October 15th 4.30 Irish Time (one workshop per week for 6 weeks)

Cost: 140 waged 120 low waged 100 unwaged 

 

What is an Archetype and how can we use it to find our character in an ancient universe which though like our own, has many differences from our life experience. How can we touch and express those inner truths and drives? Whilst an archetype is not the character, it can be a force, a type of energy which is harnessed by the character; one might even call it a kind of destiny ; a fate.  It can make for transformative results!

These six online workshops will explore through exercises how we can access the realm of archetypes for our characterisation, how we can employ those energies to enrich and sometimes focus the character (and yet at the same time not create a stereotype) and finally how we can make choices for energetic dynamics of the character to keep us both free and rooted as artists. 

The play we are going to work with is THE WINTER’S TALE. YOU WILL NEED TO PICK A CHARACTER AND LEARN A 10-12 LINE SPEECH. 

 

Max is the author of “What Country Friends is This” working with Shakespeare, young performers and the Chekhov technique.” published by Nick Hern Books

 

The Artistic Frame and the Journey in Performance

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5 week course online.   Sept 20th – October 18th one workshop per week 4.30 – 6.30 Irish Time Max Hafler

 

Just like a piece of music, a performance needs what Michael Chekhov called a Feeling of The Whole. If you think about it , even the smallest encounters in ordinary life you have with others is a journey between the two of you. This is not just a philosophical observation. Chekhov called every moment, “A little Piece of Art”. This is much more than an action or a moment. It gives you an emotional power and a significance to what you are sharing with the audience and how you are sharing. It gives the actors more agency, some idea of what you, the director and the author might be trying to communicate. Without spelling it out to the audience in a play you are taking them on a journey and as the performer and as the character are also going on one yourself.

These five workshops online will give practise and explore the Beginning and The End and the Journey. 

FEE waged 120 waged/85 unwaged

 

 

 

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