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Message from LADS - Llanymynech Amateur Dramatic Society - What a great opportunity to learn new skills and perhaps take your place as a member of LADS `when all this is all over.
Starting Tuesday 19th January - five amazing online workshops with a stellar cast of professional theatre practitioners.
These sessions are free and open to all but numbers are limited so you need to email Pam at pamjohnson.99@gmail.com to register and get the link for each workshop.
Read on Macduff! (sorry, I couldn't resist that!) | | | Tuesday 19th January 7.45pm - 10pm
Jamie Wilkes on Story Craft for Actors
There are some amazing tools and ideas on storytelling for writers. But actors are storytellers too. Let's explore some of these ideas and whether we can unlock them for acting. | | | Jamie Wilkes is a top level professional actor whose TV credits include His Dark Materials, Mr Selfridge and Vanity Fair His theatre roles have been many and include Two Noble Kinsmen, The Comedy of Errors and Oppenheimer for the RSC and Titus Andronicus at The Globe. He is also a member of The Wet Mariners who play regularly at The Willow Globe in Rhaeadr. | | | | Tuesday 26th January 7.45pm - 10pm
Laura Norman on Character Development
Through a series of games and exercises we use in the rehearsal room, this session will guide you through the process of building a character physically and emotionally.
Explore some of the building blocks of the rehearsal process. Find unique personal forms of vocal and physical expression to unlock a role and feel the exhilaration of creating a character in which you can find yourself. | | Laura Norman is the Creative Learning Practitioner at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich where she works with schools and groups of young people to develop and enhance their love of theatre.
| | | | Tuesday 2nd February 7.45pm - 10pm
Ian Bartholomew - Working on Stage and TV | | Ian Bartholomew is an actor and singer whose career spans more than 40 years. His latest high profile part has been as the Geoff Metcalfe in Coronation Street. On the stage, he has played everything from musical theatre to Shakespeare.
Ian is a four times Olivier Awards nominee, has won the Manchester Evening News award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Doolittle in Pygmalion at the city's Royal Exchange and had rave reviews for his role in Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui in Liverpool and Nottingham.
On television, his back catalogue includes Heartbeat, The Darling Buds of May, Wycliffe, Crown Court, The Professionals, Minder, The Bill, Spooks, New Tricks, Foyle's War and Maigret. | | | | Tuesday 9th February 7.45pm - 10pm
Michael Corbidge - Finding the Laughter in Shakespeare's Comedy Speeches | | | Patron of The LADS Michael Corbidge is known to us all as a Royal Shakespeare Company Voice and Text Associate. What you may not know is that he is also a published poet, an established director and writer. He runs his own studio and theatre company in Kent, teaches MA studies at the Rose Bruford drama school and until lockdown was working with a group of circus theatricals and touring internationally to teach and direct. | | | | Tuesday 16th February 7.45pm - 10pm
Loveday Ingram - Unlocking Shakespeare
Loveday will be working on dialogue and speeches from Shakespeare, exploring how to approach and unlock the text. How to identify and practice techniques to use to get the most engaging and visceral performances.
| |  | Loveday Ingram has directed musicals and plays in the west end and extensively throughout the UK as well as Internationally. She trained at the RSC with John Barton, was Associate Director at CFT for 3 years and was
Assistant Director on original production of Mamma Mia.
Her recent work includes Ken Ludwig's Baskerville which played at the National Theatre of China, Henry V and Julius Caesar for Storyhouse in Chester, and the critically acclaimed production of Aphra Behn's The Rover for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her productions in the West End include four-time Oliver Nominated Gershwin musical My One and Only, The Blue Room and When Harry Met Sally at the Haymarket Theatre Royal, and Bedroom Farce at The Albery with Richard Briers and June Whitfield as well as Rockaby at The Barbican as part of the Samuel Beckett Centenary Festival. Her production of Pal Joey at Chichester Festival Theatre was nominated for TMA Best Musical Award and her productions in Ireland include Hysteria which won an Irish Times Award, and Boston Marriage which won 3 Irish Times awards. | | | |
