: emerging theatre-makers
Aged 18-30?
Live in or around Hackney?
Interested in performing, devising & storytelling?
Join multi-disciplinary actor, theatre-maker and drama facilitator Pepa Duarte for a FREE theatre-making workshop programme.
Over the course of four Saturdays (three 3-hour sessions and one all-day workshop), you’ll explore different theatre practices and learn new skills and techniques to add to your theatre-making toolbox.
Applications are considered on a first come, first served basis until the workshop programme is full, so don’t delay, apply now!
November-December 2022
Saturdays
Sat 19 Nov, Sat 26 Nov & Sat 3 Dec, 10:30-13:30
Sat 10 Dec, 10:30-20:30 (two 3-hour session plus a sharing)
meet your facilitator
Pepa Duarte is a Peruvian actor, theatre maker and drama facilitator based in London. As a multi-disciplined actor who is ‘always writing and always moving’ her unique process creates from the performative space and often explores themes of identity, migration, feminism and belonging.
Her work is constantly pushing boundaries to create unique, experiential and challenging pieces responding to the demands of social change.
Pepa’s practice has always been accompanied by her love for teaching. She began delivering workshops in improvisation in 2009 and has delivered acting, physical theatre, devising and applied theatre programs ever since. She has had the chance to work with children, young people, adults and professional actors in Lima, Buenos Aires, Berlin and London.
As a theatre maker, her work has been commissioned and supported by Battersea Arts Centre, CASA Festival, Counterpoint Arts, Popelei Theatre, UKNA, Arts Council England, Peruvian Embassy, Theatre Deli, Poplar Union, amongst many others.
This workshop programme is part of a series titled Make theatre with … and each programme is designed in conversation with an industry professional with the aim to offer different perspectives and approaches to making theatre – no programme is ever the same!
the programme
The Three-Circle Method for Theatre Ideas
Taking improvisation skills as a starting point, you’ll explore how to propose big, bold ideas while listening to others and drawing inspiration from them.
Moving between writing on the page to writing in the space, you’ll have the chance to explore different ways to identify rich and complex ideas, and try them in the space.
Over the course of four practical workshops, you’ll explore making theatre with a playful and truthful approach, combining different devising techniques whilst taking risks, in ways that feel safe and prioritise joy in the creative process.
The programme will conclude in a public sharing on Saturday 10 December (open to an invited audience of friends and family).
This programme is for you if one or more of these is true:
- you’ve had some training (practical experience)
- you’re passionate about making theatre
- you’ve done some drama when you were younger
- you have exciting ideas you’d like to share with others
- you’re interested in pursuing a career in theatre
- you love the idea of working in a group
Please note that priority will be given to young people (18-30) living in Hackney, but we have some spaces allocated for young people outside the borough. So if you live in one of the neighbouring boroughs, you can still apply.
We’re keen to hear from applicants from the global majority and/or people who identify as first or second generation im/migrants.
Details
location
Rose Lipman Building, Haggerston
43 De Beauvoir Road, N1 5SQ
19, 26 & 10 December
Centre 151, Haggerston
151 Whiston Road, E2 8GU
3 December
dates
Sat 19 Nov, Sat 26 Nov & Sat 3 Dec, 10:30-13:30
Sat 10 Dec, 10:30-20:30 (two 3-hour session plus a sharing)
All workshop sessions include a short break. A light dinner (most likely pizza) will be served on Saturday 10 December.
cost
FREE
All participants will be offered a travel voucher for each workshop day they attend at £8.00.
To apply, please read our info pack, which includes an online sign-up form.
Applications close at midnight on Wednesday 9 November, but applications are considered on a first-come-first basis until the workshop programme is full.
Numbers are strictly limited (18 places in total), so don’t delay applying.
If there’s anything that you’re unsure of, please don’t hesitate to contact us:
- on email: maria@foreignaffairs.org.uk or,
- text/call/WhatsApp: 07478 093 697.
You’ll connect with Camila or Maria.
Download the info pack here
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