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Thrills and Skills Workshop: Improvisation - A Tool for Actors with Sam Longley
Thrills and Skills Workshop: Term One
Improvisation - A Tool for Actors with Sam Longley
IMPROVISATION: A Tool for Actors
TUTOR: Sam Longley
WHEN: Every Thursday 7 – 9pm
DATE: Thursday 5th February – Thursday 9th April
WHERE: Old Masonic Hall, 6 Broadway, Nedlands
COST: $275 incl. GST for 10 weeks
CURRICULUM COUNCIL ENDORSED: Participation earns student points towards Secondary Graduation
BSX Theatre - Thrills and Skills is a program involving an intensive series of performance workshops for people over the age of 16. If you missed out on our popular improvisation workshop last year, Sam Longley, one of Perth’s finest actors & comedians and Artistic Director of ‘The Big Hoo-Haa’ is back for our term 1 Thrills & Skills course.
If you have ever dropped a line and found yourself blank, been asked to go off script in an audition and panicked or had to think quickly, not to get in trouble with your parents, then improvisation is a tool you need.
Improvisation is the art of making-up lines. Actors often get bound to scripts and lost in text interpretation and they forget to create. Improvisation can unlock the actor and free them up to explore characters, narrative and connections. The course will look at spontaneity, creativity, character generation, scene building, narrative structure and having a laugh.
This is what one of our participants, Jennifer Forlonge, thought about the 2007 improvisation workshop with Sam Longley:
“Sam Longley delivered innovative, intriguing and inspirational classes on a weekly basis leaving me looking forward over the last 10 weeks, not to the weekend, but to Thursday nights. The two hours at the quaint Masonic Hall in Nedlands has been the highlight of my week with class seeming to finish too quickly, too early, too soon. I enjoyed classes so much I even arranged a recent overseas trip around Thursday nights!"
To secure your place in Improvisation – A Tool for Actors, click here to download an enrolment form. Or for further information contact Alena Tompkins on (08) 6389 0311 or alena@bsstc.com.au
Please be advised that enrolments for Term One close 5pm Tuesday 3rd February 2009.
Cost: $275 incl. GST for 10 weeks
Black Swan State Theatre Company’s BSX Theatre - Thrills & Skills Workshops are endorsed by Western Australia's Curriculum Council. Participation in the BSX Theatre - Thrills & Skills Workshops will earn secondary students points toward Secondary Graduation.