Environmental and Site Specific Theatre Workshops
If you are looking for a special type of holiday, one that combines intensive and enjoyable creative activity with good company, good food and attractive and peaceful surroundings, then you should try Theatre and Landscape.
You don't need any special skills. You don't need to have done any theatre before. You just need a willingness to enter enthusiastically into creative and collaborative work. Creative and fun, Theatre and Landscape will leave you invigorated, refreshed, inspired and wanting more.
For all courses, the cost includes accommodation, all food and drink, all travel, entrance fees and materials used during the course. It does not include travel to and from the accommodation itself.
We will be self-catering and participants will be expected to help out with non-onerous domestic duties. Most rooms involve two or more sharing, but there are some doubles and singles available.
Theatre and Landscape II: The Mythic Landscape
Millbrook, Cornwall
Saturday September 11 – Saturday September 18, 2010
For our fourth Theatre and Landscape week we will be based in Cornwall, staying in a beautiful farmhouse in Millbrook, near the Tamar estuary in South-East Cornwall. The whole area is designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and has many beaches and coves for us to explore and create theatre in.
There's an abundance of fascinating places to visit, work in and draw inspiration from, including The Eden Project, The Lost Gardens of Heligan, many prehistoric monuments, fantastic coastline, fishing villages and ancient churches. Cultural and literary stuff abounds - smugglers and shipwrecks, Daphne du Maurier, Barbara Hepworth and The St Ives group of landscape artists, Arthurian legend and much much more.
Cost: £480 per participant (maximum 10 participants)
About Theatre and Landscape
All these courses are devoted to the exploration of Theatre and Landscape, or Site-specific Theatre, as it's often called, and all three areas are full of exciting possibilities.
We visit woods, moors, ancient monuments, islands, beaches, castles, and all sorts of other environments. Sometimes we create performances in those environments themselves (although never for an outside audience - the only spectators are the other participants). At other times our visits provide a stimulus for creating theatre back at our base.
The work will not be confined to 'acting' in any restricted sense. There will also be opportunities for writing, painting, group-devising, movement, voice work, and installation-making. Rather than teaching any particular discipline or technique, we want to bring out the artist in people and provide structures and stimuli to allow people's artistic powers and interests to develop. Previous performing (or any other kind of) experience is not necessary, but a willingness to plunge whole-heartedly into collaborative work is, of course, essential. We think the course will appeal to artists of any level of experience and in any medium (dancers, writers, musicians, painters, actors, singers) and to people in any walk of life, who enjoy doing, or would like to do, collaborative and creative work, whether they think of themselves as artists or not!
The work will be varied - ranging from warm-ups, exercises and excursions with the whole group (8-10 people), to work in small groups, pairs and solos.
