GROWING THE SEEDS / Playback Theatre workshop series

Name: GROWING THE SEEDS / Playback Theatre workshop series
Start: 2025-01-24T17:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-01-24T19:30:00+00:00
Location: One Strawberry Lane

Schedule

Fri Jan 24 2025 at 05:30 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

One Strawberry Lane | Newcastle Upon Tyne, EN

Invitation:
If you are NEW to Playback Theatre or you have tasted the beauty, depth and fun of Playback Theatre through the OPEN workshops here in the North East or elsewhere and want more:
- want to have more experience
- widen your knowledge
- practice and grow more intensively
- understand the Playback Theatre practice from different angles - be part of a developing group
this workshop series is for you
GOALs: Deepen and ground the understanding of the Playback Theatre practice through experiencing regular practice and a protected performance with your group. This workshop series is the first step towards forming a community of people who enjoy this practice and each other's company, who are committed to develop and take Playback Theatre to the next level in their lives and also in the North East of UK.
Professional: Develop your skills as a Playback Theatre performer and musician in the areas of the Playback Theatre structure, forms including short, intermediate and long story form, stagecraft including physical expression, improvisation, giving and accepting offers, listening skills, working together, role of music, creating a Playback performance together
Personal: Connecting to your own and other people's feelings, expressing feelings and thoughts in concrete and metaphorical ways while cooperating with others, creating art, witnessing and taking part in personal storytelling, accepting diversity, playing and having fun.
Theoretical: Role of group dynamics, Story of Playback Theatre and its application.
This will be a regular closed group from start to finish. Participants expected to attend at least 80% of the sessions.
DETAILS:
10 sessions (22.5 hours), including a performance to an invited, closed audience.
DATES:
24.01.2025 / 07.02.2025 / 21.02.2025 / 07.03.2025 / 28.03.2025 / 25.04.2026 / 16.05.2025 30.05.2025 / 13.06.2025
TIMES
Fridays at 5:30 - 7.30 pm plus performance time agreed together closer to the time.
Arrival from 5 pm, departure latest 8 pm.
PLACE:
1 Strawberry Lane/ Community Hub
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE14BX
INVESTMENT
Full price for those who can afford it: £200
Concessioned for anyone needing it: £170
Pay as you can scholarship available on request.
Please don't hesitate to get in touch to discuss details.
Payment in installments is also possible.
The group starts with a minimum of 6 people.
This workshop series is suitable for beginners and people who have experienced PlaybackTheatre before to various levels.
Application deadline 05.01.2024
Get in touch and book your place via emailing to Agi at [email protected]