Stage1 is our group for 7-10 year olds and runs on Sunday mornings, 9.30am-1pm, which is all about having fun and making friends!  If you want your child to gain confidence, make new friends, learn a new skill and have buckets of fun, then this is definitely the option for them.

This term we are going to be covering a range of skills that will improve your performances in shows, exams, workshops and beyond! We will be looking at synchronicity, freezes, background acting (movement and sound levels), physical theatre, choral speaking and voice work – as well as taking requests from participants about what you would like to explore. All of this will feed into the full programme of performances and productions we have planned for the future! Highlights will be shown in the Sharings at the end of term.

Stage3 (!)- In the second part of this session (after the break) there will be the opportunity for those over 16 to work with Liz on looking at Directing and Producing – everything from choosing plays and creating concepts, to budgets and venue hire. 

We are delighted to be keeping our brilliant Workshop Leader Tom for another year to run an option for those who may not want to commit to a performance or who know they won’t be able to make some weeks. He will be looking at all the different areas you need to think about when you build a character – including working with Trestle Theatre masks (conveying a range of emotions and moods), creating scenes with different costumes and props, and teaching accents. As well as learning valuable and varied skills to feed in to your acting and drama knowledge and experience, (both inside and outside the company), there will be plenty of games and fun. Highlights will be shown to relatives and friends in the Sharings at the end of term.

 This term Roni will be directing either 3 or 4 (depending on numbers) short pieces to be entered for LAMDA Group Acting Exams – to give you a valuable qualification and teach you a whole heap of things along the way. The pieces will be polished performances with elements of physical theatre, stylised work and choral speaking! There will be no audition to be in these pieces and everyone will get the amount of lines they request (small or ordinary parts).

For anyone not wanting to do an exam or who can’t make the exam date – tbc later this term, there will be another group who will put together a piece from the same script as the others – they just don’t get a LAMDA certificate at the end! All the pieces will be performed for relatives, friends and maybe the public at the end of term – further details to follow.