For: Professional Theatre Practitioners, Directors, Youth Theatre Leaders and Practitioners, Amateur and Community Theatre/Drama Practitioners and Professional Theatre Companies.
One, two or three day or week long workshops, also residential courses and summer schools on:
- Improvisation
- Creating a Play
- Character Development
- Identifying Dramatic Objectives
- The Actors Notebook, – a dialogue with self
- Identifying the Dramatic Units in a Play
Phil works regularly providing workshops for Professional Actors, Writers, Youth Theatres, Theatre In Education Companies, Community Theatre Company’s, Young Peoples Theatre Companies, Schools, Youth Clubs, Theatre Schools, Universities, Amateur Theatres Company’s and Theatre Companies internationally. He is happy to create programmes of work for a company’s specific needs. He can provide workshops in the following areas………..
POLICY
- developing a Mission Statement
- setting Company objectives and values
- enabling a SWOT analysis
- setting up Company structures
- working towards a 3 Year plan
- leading company analysis and evaluation
- creating a Company philosophy
- creating time lines for action
CREATIVE
- creating an ensemble
- finding the ensemble voice
- preparing for rehearsals (actors and directors)
- text analysis
- actioning
- setting objectives
- uniting (beats)
- character analysis
- hot-seating
- improvisation
- sub-texting
- identifying buzz words
WRITING
- exploring the dramatic ark of a drama
- mentoring a writer
- creating and developing an inciting incident
- developing a text
- creating characters
- inventing back stories
- finding the unique voice
- exploring levels of disturbance
- creating and identifying “suddenlys”
- devising a play…..and the role of the writer
- creating verbatim theatre
- exploring theatrical/dramatic structure
YOUTH THEATRE
- creating a manifesto
- finding a shared voice
- exploring citizenship
- creating a positive and shared management structure
- the objectives of Youth Theatre practice, artistic, and managerial
I am also happy to provide workshops on
- Pantomime techniques
- Drama in the school classroom and curriculum needs
- Creating a Horrible History production
- The Art of the One Act Play
- Creating five minute plays
- Summer Schools
- Week long workshops
- A Play in a Week
Please feel free to contact me at any time to talk through ideas and possibilities