Sharon Colpman is your facilitator who has developed this characterisation workshop after her struggles with one very tricky character that hid in the shadows of a play she was writing. It led her to examine what it means to be human and which parts of ourselves do we hide or hold up for examination.
Sunday 4th May at 12.00 to 1400
What to expect:
Finding your character
Setting out the four different aspects of your character with the help of an actor
P typing your character
Evolving a character throughout your play
Putting a character in difficult situations
Please be on time, wear comfortable clothes and bring a notebook and pen.
Kiefer Wes Williams, who’s play Orton Fallen Angel is on at Shakespeare North and his work has toured as part of Grin Theatre, is your facilitator for this course. Renown for his fast paced and touching dialogue he will introduce you to real dialogue within the structure of a play.
Sunday 1st June at 10.30 to 12.30
What to expect:
The key function of dialogue in a script
Writing effective dialogue and what it is.
Making people sound different using hierarchy, mood and local colour
Developing natural Dialogue
Practical exercises to explore what we have learnt
Editing your dialogue and avoiding bad habits
Please be on time, wear comfortable clothes and bring a notebook and pen
Edward Gray writer of Passing Moustache and director of obscurest style plays will be your facilitator. Learning his craft in an era of protest and political theatre Ted’s work could never be called dull or predictable.
Sunday 22nd June 12.00 to 14.00
What to expect:
The essence of storytelling
What defines a great story
How to break the rules
How to turn left instead of right
How to avoid the pitfalls of predictability
Going outside what you know without falling for stereotypes.
Please be on time, wear comfortable clothes and bring a notebook and pen
Theatre legend Emma Rice takes on a film legend in this riotously funny reworking that turns the original thriller on its head.
With just six performers, a fabulous fifties soundtrack and a lot of suitcases, this production plays with the heart, mind and soul. Join us for a night of glamour, romance, jeopardy and a liberal sprinkling of tender truths.
A movement ritual of care & resilience.
How has colonialism impacted the care we have received from our elders?
How did we experience their resilience?
What nurturing strategies can we share with each other to help us thrive, in a
mainstream society that seeks to racialise and dehumanise us?
Can we create rituals and spaces to care for ourselves?
Women from the Global Ethnic Majority whose families have been impacted by colonisation share their own histories of care, resilience, legacy, and how these stories live in their bodies. Going beyond everyday storytelling, transforming those energies into a live experience. This performance brings to audiences their latest research and development phase of this project, where they focused on weaving personal storytelling, movement, dramaturgy and community.
All Things Considered Theatre’s Be.Spoke programme offers women a creative space to play, bounce and explore their creative performances.
All of the work is original material and based on lived experience. This work is funded by The Arts Council England.
Performers:
Winnie Southgate
Alison Downs
Mollie MacPherson
Maddie Butera
Lucy Fiori and Eliane Collins
Julie McKiernan
Performer Ruby is cleaning out her dad’s static caravan following his death, and the decisions of what to keep and what to chuck are triggers for memories – some good, some bad.
“…entertaining the bloody kids while their parents were off playing bingo or getting drunk.”
“Everyone! Get on this…she got down to the last ten for the Spice Girls.”
The belongings of the colourful characters from her days working in a holiday camp on the ‘Welsh Riviera’, and the shadows cast by Eddie, the ‘touchy-feely’ magician to whom she was the 18-year-old assistant, are her companions in a six-berth caravan as she roots through her belongings and her past.
Moving and funny, peppered with Elaine’s Liverpudlian wit, Static explores a volatile childhood, the shadier side of the ‘business called show’ and its disappointments, classism, ableism, and always being the outsider.
Waterstones Liverpool welcomes Jonn Elledge who joins us to discuss A History of the World in 47 Borders – The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps. Eye-opening and entertaining in equal measure, Elledge’s geo-political history of the world is filled with fascinating narratives about our ever-abiding pre-occupation with drawing lines and upholding ideas of nationhood.
People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By telling the stories of these borders, we can learn a lot about how political identities are shaped, why the world looks the way it does – and about the scale of human folly.
From the Roman attempts to define the boundaries of civilisation, to the secret British-French agreement to carve up the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, to the reason why landlocked Bolivia still maintains a navy, this is a fascinating, witty and surprising look at the history of the world told through its borders.
John will be in conversation with Neil Atkinson. The discussion wil be followed by an audeince Q&A and then a book signing.
Jonn Elledge is a New Statesman columnist and a contributor to the Big Issue, the Guardian, the Evening Standard and a number of other newspapers. He was previously an assistant editor at the New Statesman, where he created and ran its urbanism-focused CityMetric site, spending six happy years writing about cities, maps and borders and hosting the Skylines podcast. He has written three books, as well as over a hundred editions of the Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything. He lives in London.
Neil Atkinson is a broadcaster and author and is one of the hosts and founding members of The Anfield Wrap.
Dylan is living with dementia. Heather must watch the love of her life drift away and battle with the erosion of his memories…but Heather is not going to let Dylan go easily!
Instead, they fight to remember their past together, the laughter, the battles, and to rediscover a joy that keeps them connected for whatever the future holds.
Kook Ensemble brings together a team of world class theatre makers to create original and playful stories. They delight in blending the very best of circus arts and theatre to charm, surprise and keep you guessing until the end!
‘Sand’ is Kook Ensemble’s second show, hard on the heels of their critically acclaimed tour of ‘Filibuster’ in 2024.
Created and produced by Kook Ensemble, co-commissioned by Landmark Theatres. Supported by Arts Council England and the Royal National Theatre Generate programme.
Reviews from previous work:
A fusion of the body and the heart The Guardian.
Spectacular, sensational, arresting The Observer
A truly spectacular debut Time out
Any Other Business + two shorts. A feature play with two short plays in a night of drama, comedy and the unusual brought to you by 4th Wall Productions.
Any Other Business – A life – and a committee – in disarray. Will Gerard be able to reconcile looking after his sick mum with his role as treasurer, or will it all come tumbling down?
The Interview and Starting Out are two 10 minute shorts that will make you think and make you smile.
April 11th 2025 at 7.30pm at their new premises, Studio Beyond, first floor 63 Wood St, Liverpool L1 4AL Doors open at 6.45pm
Trigger Warnings: References and portrayals of dementia. Some swearing.
Age Guidance: 12+/Parental Guidance
