Theatr Brycheiniog workshop

On the 31st January we were invited to go to Theatr Brycheiniog, in Brecon. This theatre serves all the border counties and is the biggest theatre in our area. WE arrived in the morning and were greeted by Martyn Green, CEO. He was to be our practitioner for the day. He had once been an actor but eventually went into stage management and then management. He was very well versed in theatre and had offered us the opportunity of going to the theatre to work both in the studio and on the Main Stage.In the morning, he showed us around the theatre, talking about his development plans for it. After that we performed our contemporary monologues for the Auditions for Actors unit.

After lunch, we performed a series of improvisations on the main stage for Martyn who gave us a constructive critique at the end of each improvisation. It really was a new experience actually performing improvisation to a professional theatre practitioner and it really made me raise my game. I tried to apply the teachings of Grotowski, Artaud and Stanislavski where appropriate. I also gave thought to movement, gesture, projection, mime and most importantly,characterisation as, at all times, I wanted to create believable scenarios and characters.
We started off with a few warm up activities including physical theatre pieces where we had to create shapes like a motorbike, a creature, a four poster bed and an elephant.

https://youtu.be/xQo5beK9EKU

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THis is footage of our character development scenario.

https://youtu.be/SkThtlGaGRM