Good morning!
Today's blog is by way of a heads up for two actor training workshops that I will be running in June and August. The publicity goes out this week and I wanted to let you have a glimpse of the content before it goes live. So here it is: Please do share with actors you think might be interested! I am very much looking forward to welcoming people to the Malthouse for these workshops focused on accessing the art of the actor and enhancing their available and not yet available resources. Promises to be hard work and lots of fun!
A practical one-day workshop for actors led by Carole Pluckrose
Whose it for? Professional actors or recent graduates who would like a creative
and practical day exploring actor technique for solo performance.
Carole studied drama at Exeter University and got her first job as an actor after graduation with Triple Action Theatre. This was a baptism of fire and she toured internationally playing such roles as Molly Bloom in Ulysses and Mephistopholes in Faustus. She spent six months in Poland and spent time working with TAT at Grotowski’s Teatr Laboratorium in Wroclaw. Her training had a bias towards physical theatre and her greatest influencers are Grotowski, Peter Brook, Eugenio Barba, Joan Littlewood and also the choreographer Pina Bausch.
'Carole has a gift for working with actors and for getting them to unlock their expressiveness, and the emotional truth of the characters they're playing.'
Trevor Caryl Phillps - Playwright and actor with Arc 1996-2002
'Carole’s work on Cinderella pushed actors further into the depths of their characters than I ever witnessed. Her work and methods are ones that I respect, and lovingly steal for my own work on a daily basis!'
Phil Gostelow- Composer and MD – Cinderella, Broadway Theatre 2012.
“I can't say enough about Carole's understanding of different characters and the required steps needed to transform any actor simply from reading words on a page and thinking they're acting to actually understanding the text and becoming that character.I have been lucky enough to work with her and seen first hand the incredible results she can achieve.”
Dean Kilford – Actor (Cinderella 2012)
'Carole is a fantastic director! Having been an actor herself, she is able to truly understand the performer's needs. Carole delivers an original style of directing which works with each individual's learning style. Carole has a wealth of experience and always brings fresh news ideas and activities into rehearsals'
Natalie Smith - Actor with Arc since 1994
Today's blog is by way of a heads up for two actor training workshops that I will be running in June and August. The publicity goes out this week and I wanted to let you have a glimpse of the content before it goes live. So here it is: Please do share with actors you think might be interested! I am very much looking forward to welcoming people to the Malthouse for these workshops focused on accessing the art of the actor and enhancing their available and not yet available resources. Promises to be hard work and lots of fun!
Jasmine
Street in collaboration with Arc Theatre
Flying Solo
A practical one-day workshop for actors led by Carole Pluckrose
Whose it for? Professional actors or recent graduates who would like a creative
and practical day exploring actor technique for solo performance.
Whether
you are working on a piece at the moment, plan to or are simply interested in
improving your audition piece technique this is a workshop for you.
When:
Saturday June 29th 9.30-5.30
Where:
Arc Theatre, The Malthouse Studios, 62-76 Abbey Road, Barking, Essex, IG11 7BT
0208 594 1095
Fee:
£65.00 inclusive
The
Content:
The
workshop will focus on
1. Use of archetypes in finding
story/character
2. The physical instrument –
Unblocking energy channels and releasing voice and emotion
3. Connection with material
4. Breath and techniques for
change in emotion
5. Character transformation and
storytelling
Arc
will be curating a Flying Solo performance festival at the Malthouse in
October.
The
Soulful Actor
A practical three-day actor training workshop led by Carole Pluckrose
Whose it for? Professional actors and recent graduates who want to deepen their practice and learn new skills
When:
Tuesday 27-Thursday 29 August 2013 9.30-5.30
Where:
Arc Theatre, The Malthouse Studios, 62-76 Abbey Road, Barking, Essex, IG11 7BT
0208 594 1095
Fee: £180.00
The Content
All actors are artists
This
workshop offers a space and place for actors to refresh their creative resources
through exploring their own rich source of imagination, memory and imagery.
Carole is an actor’s director and her over 25 years working with actors
repeatedly shows her that the best performance work comes from engaging with
and encouraging the heart of the creative actor, creating a safe space to
surprise and delight.
With
her background in making theatre and the eclectic influences on her practice
she will guide actors expertly through a three-day process which will release
imagination and encouragement embodiment of ideas, text and metaphor.
The
structure of the workshop will be exploratory within a scaffolding of some familiar actor training methods, ie; Grotowski’s
‘holy’ actor approach and the work of Peter Brook along with methods and approaches
drawn from other disciplines such as NLP and Transactional analysis and the
work of Caroline Myss on Jungian archetypes. At the same time it will focus on concrete resources and skills that can be applied in a range of character and text
development.
Actors
will have an opportunity to work on small pieces either alone or in groups to
apply the learning and present for feedback at the end of the workshop.
Actors
might join this workshop if they want to take a break from the pressure of
application writing, auditions and other money earning jobs etc; It will be a
time for enquiry and nourishment.
Carole Pluckrose
Carole studied drama at Exeter University and got her first job as an actor after graduation with Triple Action Theatre. This was a baptism of fire and she toured internationally playing such roles as Molly Bloom in Ulysses and Mephistopholes in Faustus. She spent six months in Poland and spent time working with TAT at Grotowski’s Teatr Laboratorium in Wroclaw. Her training had a bias towards physical theatre and her greatest influencers are Grotowski, Peter Brook, Eugenio Barba, Joan Littlewood and also the choreographer Pina Bausch.
After leaving TAT Carole worked at the Theatre Royal Stratford with Actor’s shop during which time she focused on developing her improvisation skills and naturalistic performance. Following this she co-founded Arc Theatre with writer Clifford Oliver in 1984. The company’s first new theatre piece was her solo performance Fallen by Polly Teale, (the story of the Kerry Babies murders) directed by Julia Bardsley – which won a Fringe First at the Edinburgh Festival in 1986 and went onto a London run and national tour to medium scale theatres.
Carole’s second solo show was Candles in my eyes by Mike English – the story of Pauline Cutting’s work as a doctor in war torn Beirut.
Carole moved into directing in 1993 and has directed most of Arc’s plays since then. She has a passion for actor training and has developed her own method of working over the past 30 years which is actor-centred and focused on using the fluency of theatre language to uncover the layers of a text.
She is currently developing her actor training and development work through her new company Jasmine Street and this is the first opportunity for Jasmine Street and Arc to collaborate.
And below rather kind words!
And below rather kind words!
'Carole has a gift for working with actors and for getting them to unlock their expressiveness, and the emotional truth of the characters they're playing.'
Trevor Caryl Phillps - Playwright and actor with Arc 1996-2002
'Carole’s work on Cinderella pushed actors further into the depths of their characters than I ever witnessed. Her work and methods are ones that I respect, and lovingly steal for my own work on a daily basis!'
Phil Gostelow- Composer and MD – Cinderella, Broadway Theatre 2012.
“I can't say enough about Carole's understanding of different characters and the required steps needed to transform any actor simply from reading words on a page and thinking they're acting to actually understanding the text and becoming that character.I have been lucky enough to work with her and seen first hand the incredible results she can achieve.”
Dean Kilford – Actor (Cinderella 2012)
'Carole is a fantastic director! Having been an actor herself, she is able to truly understand the performer's needs. Carole delivers an original style of directing which works with each individual's learning style. Carole has a wealth of experience and always brings fresh news ideas and activities into rehearsals'
Natalie Smith - Actor with Arc since 1994
'Carole is an incredibly talented and inspiring director. Whenever I have worked with her, she helps me to see character and emotional development in an entirely different way. Her techniques are exciting, unique and encourage any actor to create a believable and engaging role on stage. Her wealth of knowledge and experience is so evident in all of her work and her passion for theatre is contagious.'
Gemma Lord - Head of Performing Arts - Redden Court School
To book go to Eventbrite http://jasminestreet-arc.eventbrite.co.uk
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