The Toolbox

This workshop will help you to refine your stage presence through Jacques Lecoq’s techniques, with special focus on the Seven Levels of Tension. This exploration will help you understand and analyze movement, character, and staging. 

By mastering these levels, you’ll broaden your understanding of dramatic territories and develop a clear physical vocabulary, shaping your craft intentionally on stage.

 Pereira is a physical theatre practitioner with a background in Étienne Decroux and Jacques Lecoq techniques. She holds an MA in Applied Theatre from Goldsmiths, University of London and has taught Neutral Mask to BA Physical Theatre students at East 15 Acting School. She works with actors and directors to expand their physical and creative range, offering tools for presence, embodiment, and ensemble work. Her practice includes collaborations with Dendê Collective, StoneCrabs Theatre, and Icon Theatre, alongside international work with theatre companies in Brazil and Sweden.

In this session, we will be looking at the techniques and tools of the Actor and Acting Practitioner Uta Hagen.

From the use of her exercises in self observation, to the use of her work in character development and how to apply the skills and techniques in scene work for the actor and director. 

This involves principles of character creation and transformation, stage craft and world building. 

Heather is an Acting tutor whose specialism is Uta Hagen technique and she has continued to develop her practice and teaching of the work as an associate of the HB Studios in New York having participated in training courses with Carol Rosenfeld, Founding Director, Uta Hagen Institute. This training was both in the teaching and participation of Uta Hagen's practices. Alongside this practice she teaches and directs performance projects for both contemporary and classical texts at LAMDA and Rose Bruford College. 

In this workshop we will look at approaching a text or role using the Michael Chekhov Technique, connecting the imagination, body, and psychology to access individual connection and expressive range. The exploration will be playful, inclusive, and empowering for both actors and directors. Chekhov Technique is an approach which celebrates difference and creative individuality but does not emphasize personal memories or past trauma to connect to emotion.

Gretchen Egolf has been a theatre artist for 35 years, working as an actor extensively in the US on stage and screen. Now living and working in the UK for over a decade, she has taught and directed at LAMDA, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, RADA, Rose Bruford, and others, as well as with The Chekhov Collective UK, specializing in the Michael Chekhov Technique. 

Meisner and Stanislavski - a combination...

This session will look at Meisner's repetition exercises, Stanislavski's Active Analysis and how we can combine these two practitioners while working on scenes. 

Robbie will take participants through these two processes in a spirit of investigation and collaboration. 

Everyone will do the exercises and it is about experiencing the exercises, rather than being a 'good actor'. 

Robbie is an actor, director and a teacher specialising in Meisner and Stanislavsky Techniques. He has taught at Central School of Speech and Drama, University of Wales Trinity St Davids, ALRA, Drama Studio, Guildford School of Acting and currently teaches at RWCMD. 

As an actor he has worked at the RSC, National Theatre, West End, Royal Court, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Young Vic, Sherman Cymru and Abbey Theatre, Dublin. He has Directed at The Bristol Old Vic, Bath Theatre Royal, Chapter Arts Centre, RWCMD, Central, Guildford School of Acting and RADA.

This workshop introduces some of the foundational principles and tools in Stanislavsky’s work, who by his research and work inspired and formed the basis of most modern acting techniques. In the form of practical exercises we will explore some principles of work with attention and imagination and discuss how to make them your active tools. We will look into action and objectives and how to use them when working on a scene. Please wear loose comfortable clothing to be able to move freely because some basic physical work will be involved.

Anastasia is an actor, theatre director and acting tutor. She works as Senior Acting Tutor at RADA and teaches a short course on Stanislavsky system at Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Anastasia trained as an actor at Moscow Art Theatre School and for many years worked for a repertory theatre, performing in various productions in Moscow venues (including Moscow Art Theatre, Praktika Theatre, Theatre.DOC, Meyerhold Center and others). In Russia she directed and taught at Moscow Art Theatre School, Moscow School of New Cinema, created short courses at Gogol School, HSE School of Design, School Community of Masterskaya Brusnikina, Skillbox Online University.