1. Living Newspaper
 
Working from a recent news article, drama exercises will be used to find different issues in the piece: this could work in a general framework by focusing on Morals and Ethics (i.e. from an article on a controversial theft case or business ethic dilemmas), Global Responsibility (i.e. rainforest issues or agricultural disasters), Social Justice (exploring our own social responsibility towards homelessness, care for the elderly and so forth).
 

2. The Actors Toolbox: VOICE
 
This session will focus on everyone can apply the vocal training techniques of actors in everyday life. How can I speak to three hundred people with no microphone and without going hoarse? How can I speak to a group for the entire day without straining my voice? This session will include vocal training techniques and relaxation methods. It is based on the guidelines of Cicely Berry, vocal coach to the Royal Shakespeare Company.
 

3. The Actors Toolbox: BODY LANGUAGE
 
Non-verbal communication is a crucial component of all public speaking. In this workshop we will identify basic tenets of good body language and identify how we can improve this key area in our communication. Participants will get an opportunity to see themselves on video and analyse how their performance can be enhanced.
 

4. Games Techniques: the world of Boal
 
Augusto Boal is a Brazilian theatre genius who invented Forum Theatre and hundreds of drama games to explore different situations. This session takes participants through a variety of different theatre games, exploring the roots of creativity and discovers how games can help us grow. You are never too old to play...
 

5. Forum Theatre
 
Forum Theatre is a set of techniques designed by Augusto Boal to help communities and individuals explore their issues and work out how they can improve their social reality through the use of group roleplay. Boal has used it with politically oppressed communities, battered wives groups and victims of school bullying. It can be used within a community to address virtually every challenging issue.
 

6. Method Acting & Stan the Man
 
What is Method Acting? Why did Dustin Hoffman lose sleep? Why did Marlon Brando get fat (on purpose)? We will find out about Konstantin Stanislavski and Lee Straseberg, and explore the acting technique that was a Twentieth Century Revolution.
 

7. Devising Theatre
 
How does a group of people create a performance piece from scratch? This can be run as a one-off workshop or a series of workshops aiming towards a final performance. It is continually surprising how much creativity we have inside ourselves – now we can unleash the ideas!
 

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