The British Theatre Guide: Summer 2008 Acting School with DAW

Amateur Theatre

Summer Acting School with DAW

Wales based charity, the Drama Association of Wales (DAW), announces the launch of its latest Theatre Summer School, a week-long residential training holiday designed for amateur actors and directors at Swansea University from 10th to 16th August.

BEING BOLD: Steps Towards Braver Productions

Summer School 2008 will explore plays with BIG ideas. Working in groups, participants will discover the poetics and structure of the language of plays that ensures vital theatre.

So often during short rehearsal periods, amateur theatre companies are forced to work to tight deadlines. The advantage of a week-long summer school is that it allows the artists to experiment with new, challenging and exciting rehearsal techniques that can invigorate a pressured rehearsal period. The course will encourage the artist to be brave and experiment with new rehearsal techniques that could lead to a more ambitious theatre making process.

Using techniques of Brainstorming, Unitting, Actioning and the discovery of short term and super objectives alongside character motivation the participant will investigate a number of classic and popular texts for large groups of actors with a view to creating exciting, relevant theatre.

At the end of the week there will be the opportunity to show back the work created.

This year's tutors are Phil Clark and Rebecca Gould:

Phil Clark is returning to tutor the 2008 course after excellent feedback from his course last year. Phil has worked extensively in the UK and Europe as a Director and established Britain's largest annual Youth Theatre Festival. From 1990 to 2006 he was Artistic Director of the Sherman Theatre Company in Cardiff where he prioritised new writing and commissioned over 100 new plays. Phil teaches regularly at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Actors' Centre London, Tishe School of Performing Arts New York and the National Association of Youth Theatre's Summer Festival.

Tutoring alongside Phil will be Rebecca Gould who has specialised in directing new plays. Until recently she was Associate Director at the Theatre Royal Plymouth. Currently she is a Learning Associate at the RSC. She has also recently directed as an Education Associate at the National Theatre.

For full course details contact:

Gary Thomas
Drama Association of Wales
The Old Library,
Singleton Road,
Cardiff CF24 2ET

(T) 029 2045 2200
(E) aled.daw@virgin.net

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