Theatre Workout to host online and live CPD and workshops

Monday, August 17, 2020

After struggling through lockdown along with all other arts institutions, the West End drama workshop provider is back, and has teacher CPD to offer.

Two online workshops and two live socially-distanced workshops have been announced to help teachers get back into drama CPD as the new academic year begins. The timetable includes sessions on Enhancing English Literature through Drama; Socially Distanced Theatre and How to Make It; Working with Text; Stage Combat and Devising Theatre:

Enhancing English Literature through Drama

With reported plans to focus on 'core' subjects like English and Maths when secondary schools return in September, and for other subjects to be suspended until the summer term, now more than ever we need to maximise every opportunity to bring creativity into other subjects.

This session will discuss creative practices and explore practical techniques to help you be more creative in the classroom.

The session may include:

  • Shakespeare

  • Verbatim theatre

  • Storytelling

  • Page to Stage


Date: Monday 17th August 2020, 14.00-16.00 (GMT)
Online
£10 (reduced from £30)

 

Socially Distanced Theatre and how to make it

The theatre world is itching to get back to work but with so many unknown factors there are many challenges ahead. Schools too have had little guidance on how subjects like Drama are supposed to function.

Collaboration is essential for everything to work, so this session will discuss and explore various techniques around creating socially distanced work, including:

  • Practical exercises you can use with students

  • Devising techniques

  • Non-verbal performance 'v' text-based drama

  • Verbatim theatre


​Date: Tuesday 15th September 2020, 16.00-17.30 (GMT)
Online, £30

 

Working With Text

Working with text can be a real challenge. A good script can provide a wealth of material to create diverse characters and deliver an outstanding performance, but sometimes it can be quite overwhelming.

Inspired by our collective decades of professional acting experience including productions in the West End, National Theatre, RSC, UK tours and more, we've collected some of our favourite techniques for text-based work, including Shakespeare and contemporary scripts.

Led by Theatre Workout's founder, Adam Milford, himself a professional actor, this workshop has been redesigned to take place online. It will be a group session via Zoom with group exercises and discussion on techniques, exploring a few classical and contemporary scenes, with text provided in advance by email for use during the session. There may also be some break-away activities with participants paired up to try exercises out. We'll be doing as much as we can to replicate exercises we would use in a live format over this two hour session.

WHEN: Wednesday 23rd September 2020, 17.00-18.30 (GMT)
WHERE: Online - ZOOM
COST: £30

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Stage Combat

With the events industry due to reopen on 1st October, this will be our first 'live' CPD workshop with relevant social distancing measures taken into account.

Designed for teachers, actors, and other theatre professionals, this session will teach a range of unarmed stage combat techniques and how to develop choreography. It may include:

  • Punches

  • Slaps

  • Kicks

  • Reverse/Victim Contol moves such as hair pulls and ear grabs

  • Falls and reactions

After learning the basic techniques you will learn techniques then have the opportunity to develop and rehearse choreography around an improvised scene.

Date: Friday 30/10/2020,

Times: 10.00-17.00

Venue: tbc, central London

Fee: £125

Early Bird Offer: £75 Book and pay by 15/09/2020

 

Devising Theatre

With the events industry due to reopen on 1st October, this will be our second 'live' CPD workshop with relevant social distancing measures taken into account.

Designed for teachers, actors, and other theatre professionals, this session will teach a range of devising techniques rooted text-based theatre, physical theatre, clowning, and using a range of stimuli to create characters, scenes, choreography and more. It may include:

  • Devising within a social distanced world

  • Physical theatre solo projects

  • Small group text-based work

  • Clowning, mime and imagination

 

The workshop will explore a range of techniques before putting them into practice with the creation of performance.

Date: Saturday 31/10/2020,

Times: 10.00-17.00

Venue: tbc, central London

Fee: £125

Early Bird Offer: £75 Book and pay by 15/09/2020

 

For more information and to book all sessions, go to www.theatreworkout.com

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