Award winning Geese Theatre running this fab training day in Cardiff next week http://fb.me/7IyIAexsl 

If you're interested in applied theatre, prison theatre or mask work this is a…

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Clown and Devising Theatre workshops led by Spymonkey

in collaboration with Hijinx

This November, physical comedy specialists Spymonkey will be running two week-long workshops in collaboration with Hijinx for arts practitioners who want to develop their skills. The Spymonkey team will be providing an introduction to their distinctive clowning and devising techniques, using 'Jason and the Argonauts' as…

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Great to be back with the team today after my weekend in London doing the National Theatre Connections 500 course. I am absolutely loving the final script- the additions and alterations made last week have transformed this script from a great piece of writing into a truly exciting and breath taking script. I have attached a couple of photos from the first couple of read throughs with free movement- the only rule that was added was to not use the chairs as chairs... I can't wait to work…

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Ok then,

 

Hello you.

 

This here is the first of what will be many blogs detailing what I do, what I’m about to do and quite possibly streams of conscious ramblings. I’d love for people to give me opinions, let me know what you think of stuff I’m doing, get in touch if you want to work on something together or simply tell me to shut up – I love conversation so please, lets pretend we’ve known each other for ages.

 

So, here it goes. I’m a sound…

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When her grandmother died, Kelly was drowning. Her dead end job at Asdas, in between the annoying-colleague-who-needs-to-get-a-life aisle and the horrible-neighbours-who-spend-their-life-gossiping-section, Kelly is hiding from the snot-filled monster in a dress, who happens to be the one, who safes her. And she him.



Kelly Jones' Drowned Girl, directed by Anna Poole just finished it's run in Chapter and I went with three fellow TEAM members as part of TEAM's…

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What a great day we had yesterday. Firstly, we had a fab Shakespeare workshop at the Anglo Institute in Montevideo. The commitment, hard work and sense of fun shown by these participants, working in their second language was fabulous. In the evening, we had a lovely, appreciative audience at the theatre for the shows, and in between...the small matter of a…

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Everything hangs on a thread.

Prayers to the gods, who will be heard?

Battleworn, grey, barely able to stand anymore and wondering will this ever end - no, not the audience, but the cast of warriors whose battle spins and switches back and forth, as fates intervene and fortunes wheels slide like a chariot in the mud.



The final chapter in this epic is one where all sense of right and wrong, winner and loser and even our own sleeping and waking worlds are blurred. But however… Continue

And so to war.

We endure full fat gore as we are told the tales both small and vast of the showdown between Troy and Greece. The human tragedy of war unfolds. Twisting sinews, splintering bone and splint intestines are set against the mesmerising glint of sharpened steel and polished bronze.

A throbbing hum surrounds us, vistas of history ancient and new are thrown into the wind that we imagine is blown around us, voices drift, people slump and the case are redeemed, what is real and… Continue

Part I ended with a call to war and part II started with a battle cry...



From the minute we re-enter the theatre space the pace picks up, we stand expectant of action and rhythmic music surrounds us as the space fills with people. The generals of war take the stage and give us great polemics of bravery and honour, 1000s of men invited to shed their blood in the name of a cause.. And that name is Helen.

We get to meet her and hear her painful, angry, proud story in a quiet but… Continue

After weeks of anticipation, a day of travel and a sea of new faces, I am finally here blogging live from the ffwrnes theatre in Llanelli for their epic all night Iliad marathon.

It's a theatrical adaptation as ambitious in its methods as in its subject.



Inside the theatre its a studio set up with the audience scattered around in plastic chairs and a uniformed cast restless and grim pace between people. Voices, a man speaks, the epic begins, the great intractable battle that was… Continue

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--A New Play Written by Christopher T. Harris--

 

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

Friday 6th November 2015 (7.45pm)

Aberystwyth Arts Centre…

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My first thought about attending NTW TEAM Critical Chinwag was how lovely it was to meet and chat to not only other NTW TEAM members but theatre community members I have lost touch. Also in attendance were some of the Dirty Protest Parallel Lines team. It is nice to see so many familiar faces supporting Chapter and the arts in Wales and especially the Dirty Protest lot. I was surprised to see Jonathan Dunn's name on the Thank you list as it appears this local film maker and cameraman/…

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Jan lead a fantastic physical (dance) warm up this morning to get the team moving and grooving before some concentration games which included a game I was previously taught by Becky Poole (Above Board Fitness) which she calls Space Invaders and involves making eye contact and releasing people by saying their name… I was completely embarrassed by accidentally referring to each actor by character name which had been firmly embedded in my brain from the two read throughs on day 1! A fun start…

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Feeling like the first day of school, director Catherine Paskell (who I met at the interview) is an absolute dream at putting me at ease. The team is larger than I thought (Director, Producer, 4 cast members, Production manager, Writer, Designer, Lighting Designer, Sound Designer, Design assistant, Marketing Manager, Audio Describer and Chapter staff) but all incredibly welcoming. After a quick introduction of names/ roles we have an introduction from Catherine on Dirty Protest’s ambition to…

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Birth of Blackfulla Performance Alliance 2015 from Australia Council for the Arts on Vimeo.

Gavin Porter and I were lucky enough to be invited to attend the National Indigenous Theatre Forum in Brisbane recently. This three day Forum saw over 70 Indigenous… Continue