Mondays 7pm-9pm
SPRING TERM | 16th January-13th March 2023 (no classes on Monday 13th February) Extra rehearsal 12th March Tech rehearsal 19th March Show dates 20th & 21st March 2023 |
£275
Courtyard Theatre
The Courtyard Theatre, 40 Pitfield St, London N1 6EU
LIAM REILLY trained at Drama Centre London. Theatre credits include: The Hanged Man (Mercury Theatre), The Caretaker (World Tour), Julius Ceasar (Barbican Theatre), The Homecoming (Actors Centre), Addicted to Love (UK Tour), Sprout (Edinburgh Festival), Cahoots Macbeth (Kings Head Theatre)
TV/Film credits include: Call The Midwife (BBC), Clapham Junction (Channel 4) Dubplate Drama, Series I &II (Channel 4) Baby Father II (BBC), The Hidden City (Hallmark), Class (Black Dog Films), Phea (Fade In Productions), There for me (Cinema 2), Irina Palm (Samsa Films), Rabbit Fever (Caught Productions), Trauma (Little Bird).
Liam is extremely passionate and active in theatre, film and television and believes strongly in its ability to educate, entertain, and empower. He originally trained as an actor at the Drama Centre, London and now splits his time between acting coaching, writing, and directing.
Participants should have some acting experience already and be keen to advance their skills.
This course is a natural progression from some of our other Acting courses, but we also welcome new performers who have not previously enrolled with us.
Come along for a taster session taking place on Monday 16th January to see if the company is the right fit for you. If you would prefer to have a telephone interview with the Ensemble Company director to see if you would be suitable, please email satc@afperformingarts.com to arrange a convenient time.
This course provides a fun and rewarding process in which participants develop their physical and vocal abilities, foster their creativity and imagination, create their own performance material from different stimuli, and learn techniques on how to build believable and stimulating characters for stage and screen.
“In improvisation there are no mistakes” – Miles Davis
This class will start from a place of fun, play and exploration. Then you will learn to go beyond what you know….this is the place where great art happens. You will learn to have the courage to gloriously fail, to go outside of your comfort zone. To begin with you will explore the basics of improv through exercises and games. Then the group will progress into more advanced exercises designed to ignite your imagination and improve your skills.
As a group you will work together to devise and construct an ensemble piece to be performed based around the theme / idea of ‘The Blue Room’ by David hare (usually known by the French translation La Ronde). Themes of deceit, sex, and social class.
“The Blue Room takes the treacherous Freudian subject of projection and desire and reinvents it in a bittersweet landscape that is both eternal and completely up-to-date”-Goodreads.
You will use this script as the base and a will be improvising some parts. The idea is to get you as connected and responsive as possible to each other and the text. The techniques being used / worked on are a combination of improvisation and Meisner. Each student will have minimum of one scene each and the scenes will be inter-connected.
Under the highly experienced guidance of Liam you will:
Please note that as we are an adult performing arts school, any video footage or photographs taken during your class may be used on our social media for marketing and promotional purposes.
This course will take place on Mondays 7pm – 9pm, 16th January- 13th March. ALL profits from this course will go into the Fiorentini Foundation.