DEAFINITELY THEATRE ANNOUNCES
THE HUB’S SPRING AND SUMMER ACTING WORKSHOPS
Deafinitely Theatre today announces the Spring and Summer 2019 acting workshops for their theatre training course for deaf artists, The Hub. The workshops include Visual Vernacular, Comedy, Movement and Stage Combat and aim to equip participants for mainstream arts employment through structured, accessible and professional theatre training.
Launched in September 2018, The Hub is a year-long programme, which has been developed and expanded from a previous pilot scheme. Alongside acting The Hub offers participants playwriting workshops, which aim to develop and explore writing for live performance and Industry Insight workshops which focusses on areas of theatre practise, including stage management and theatre design. The Hub also provides a mentorship scheme lasting 12 months for two mentees. Each mentee will receive a bursary and have a brief to design and complete a set task with ongoing support from their mentor. Throughout the course of the year, the Hub will facilitate four networking events where Hub participants can present their ideas and share their CVs with industry professionals. Interpreter and caption support is offered across the whole programme.
In addition to The Hub, Deafinitely Theatre continues its long-term commitment to supporting deaf artists across the industry, inviting participants to apply for paid internships and acting roles with the company.
Visual Vernacular
Wednesdays, 27 February – 20 March 2019
This session, run by actor and director Adam Bassett, focusses on theatrical art as a form of physical expression. Participants will learn how stories can be told through body movements, iconic signs, gestures and facial expressions. Visual-manual language employs cinematic techniques in a four-dimensional environment: cuts, angles, and zooms, etc. These devices are commonly and richly used in storytelling and poetry. Just as imagery is used in poetry and novels, visual-manual language takes the opportunity of manipulating imagery in four-dimensional space and time.
Comedy
Wednesdays, 1 May – 15 May 2019
The workshop will look at comedy and what makes us laugh, it will be run by deaf actor and director, Caroline Parker who specialises in physical comedy and comedy without words.
Movement
Wednesdays, 22 May – 12 June 2019
Through a mixture of improvisation and play this workshop focuses on the expansion of both physical awareness and awareness of the body in space. This will grant the actor choice with their movement so that their body can easily, with truth, fulfil each character played through the ability to work in different performances styles.
The workshop will be run by Angela Gasparetto a freelance movement director, director and teacher at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Stage Combat
Wednesdays, 19 June – 26 June 2019
During this course participants will learn the principles of stage fighting – the reactions and carefully choreographed moment that portrays spontaneous fight scenes on stage and screen.
The workshop will be run by Philip d’Orléans a Master Teacher with the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat and stage combat teacher at RADA.
Participants can book via the Hub Acting pages on the Deafinitely Theatre website. www.deafinitelytheatre.co.uk