TheatreCenter

Thank you so much to everyone who contributed to Pip’s marathon fundraising…she is doing brilliantly and has nearly reached her £1,000.00 target. Amazing! Well done Pip! If you would still like to sponsor Pip there  is still time, so remember to bring along any sponsorship this Saturday, 30th April.

James Pegg will be your Right Royal Supervisor this Saturday, and Pip will be hovering around to welcome you all back and get your wedding opinions! James can be contacted on his mobile in the afternoon: (07736) 413 749

If you would like to join us for a summer term of dramatic events (!) our dates for the summer season are as follows…

APRIL: 30th

MAY: 7th, 14th, 21st

JUNE: 11th, 18th, 25th

JULY: 2nd, 9th, 16th

HALF TERM: MAY 28th AND JUNE 4th

Term fees are :  New Student – £200 / Returning Student £190 but if you reserve your place (with a £40 non returnable deposit) by 15th April you will receive an ‘Early Bird Discount’ of £10. We also offer an ‘Introduce A Friend’ scheme whereby, if your friend books for a term, you will receive one session free (worth £20)!

We hope to see you in the summer!

Yes, all too soon, it has arrived! The end of our Spring Term here at theatrecenter! Pip will be your supervisor this week (07957 641 210) and she will be joined by the fabulous Jane Lesley for some dramatic fun and games – and perhaps a visit from the Easter Penguin…!

Wow! What an amazing day!! Because of the way we work (a different tutor with a different subject each week) it’s always a bit of a challenge for the students when we suddenly turn round and expect them to remember pieces that they’ve put together 10 weeks earlier in the term – with only a couple of hours rehearsal before the performance! But, as ever, our fabulous team of young performers really pulled out all the stops and produced a totally awesome presentation! We kicked off the proceedings with a showing (on the Big Screen) of some of the films we had made this term (with massive thanx to Ryan Laight and (ex-student) Oliver Banks for their excellent editing skills!), followed by Creation Of A Monster – a movement piece based on the Frankenstein story; some excellent demonstrations of the Meisner Technique; 2 of our favourite Random Word Theatre pieces (‘Secret’ and ‘Who’); Murmuration; and to finish – a beautifully performed (and at times very moving) musical version of ‘The Empty Box’ exercise! We had an excellent turn out (standing room only!!) and the audience was extremely appreciative – with some wonderful feedback afterwards!! Congratulations to the theatrecenter Class of Spring 2011 – you should be very proud of the work that you have done this term – we certainly are..!!

The Easter holidays are rapidly approaching (where does the time go?!) and this week we will be having our end of term presentation; being held in the Drama Studio from 4 pm and lasting for about 45 mins – an hour. Why not pop along and see some of the results of what we get up to on a Saturday afternoon? Admission is free and all are welcome – We hope to see you there!!

Pip (07957 641 210) and Jo (07979 222 140) will be in the supervisors chair this week (they may have to squish in order to both get on it!) and will be on site from 12pm!

Physical theatre specialist John Hinton was our workshop leader this week and we had a great session discovering new ways of improvising! John brought in a brilliant selection of picture & word cards and we used these to create characters and situations that changed on the turn of a card! We looked at the idea of ‘Less Is More’ and the students were challenged to create a 10 second piece of theatre in under a minute (really tricky!!) and a 1 minute piece of theatre in under 5 – a challenge that both groups rose to admirably!! Using some of the techniques that we’d been working on that day, the students then put together 2 contrasting pieces of Random Word Theatre – ‘Secret’ and ‘Door’