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Greetings!
for the workshops below please email [log in to unmask] for further information . For the one free workshop on Psychological Gesture you need a short note registering interest (see below)
WE HAVE TO BE FULL OF MUSIC.
Rhythm, Tempo, Colour and Wholeness
Four sessions online with Max Hafler and Guest Declan Drohan
4.00 – 6.00 (27TH AUGUST – 17TH SEPTEMBER)
This quote from Michael Chekhov highlights the idea that we need to treat our plays like a piece of music and we want to explore this using the short play by Yeats, CALVARY. Made up with Chorus of Musicians , spoken solos and duets, Calvary is an ideal piece to explore this aspect of the Chekhov work. Rhythm, Tempo and a Feeling of Wholeness which comes from feelings, images, form and the direction of energy, gives our performances life. Harnessing this energy is crucial to creating work on both stage and film and making connection. For performers, directors and explorers.
COST 80 WAGED/ 60 part time/ 45 unwaged
APPLICATION - NO SMALL PARTS.
Application :No small parts. Working with small roles in plays and films.
A modicum of experience of the Chekhov technique (no more than 12 participants)
4 Sessions : tutor Max Hafler
27TH SEPTEMBER – 18TH OCTOBER
4.00 - 5.30
Small roles in plays or films can be an extraordinary problem for an actor and yet the majority of us are in that situation. Our ego tells us we have loads to offer and yet we have to fit into this project with energy when we may have only a few minutes stage/screen time. Yet our contribution can be enormous and telling under the right circumstances. Looking Brecht, Shakespeare, Chekhov and a modern TV script, we will explore and share this dilemma using the Michael Chekhov technique to find the balance.
COST 60/45/ 35
AND THE FREE INTRO WORKSHOP
FREE WORKSHOP 5 – 6.30
PSYCHOLOGICAL GESTURE – CONNECTING TO THE HEART.
26th August
Michael Chekhov’s signature focus is on imagination and Body and connecting up the body to the thoughts, feelings and motivations of the character in a way that the body can fully express the character’s psychology. Psychological Gesture offers us not only the deep intentions of the character but also how they are doing it. If Chekhov’s work interests you and you would like to attend this workshop then please write to us with two things. What is your interest in this work? How much experience have you had? Just a short note will do. It would be good if you had a reasonable space to move around in (we will be working through the body) and a reasonable internet connection.
The tutor is Max Hafler
This 90 minute workshop is free.
TUTORS
Max Hafler began his professional life as an actor, training at LAMDA and working with a whole number of distinguished actors
and directors. He is a theatre tutor, director and writer who now specialises primarily in Michael Chekhov Technique and Voice. He trained in Chekhov Technique at MICHA and Michael Chekhov Europe. He teaches at NUI Galway in Ireland, and has guested at Boston
MIT, USMaine Gorham, the Lir and others. He has worked extensively on youth and applied theatre programmes. His book, Teaching Voice, was published by Nick Hern Books in 2016 and his new book, 'What Country Friends is This?' about young people, Chekhov Technique
and Shakespeare is due for release this month . He set up Chekhov Training and Performance Ireland to make the West of Ireland a hub for the acting technique. Of his many productions, his most recent professional production was for The Sacrificial Wind , a
poem-play by Lorna Shaughnessy about Iphigenia. His college and youth theatre work include The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Yerma ,The Trial, The Bacchae in the version by David Greig and most recently, Twelfth Night.
Max Hafler : part-time lecturer at NUI Galway , author of Teaching Voice published by Nick Hern books, director of CTPI Chekhov Training and Performance Ireland
"All art aspires to the condition of music" Walter Pater.