Description
WHAT IS IT?
Physical Characterisation Techniques (PCT) provide a useful and fun set of tools for exploring text, characters and situations. In this workshop we will see how these
techniques can help when working on Shakespeare.
HOW WILL IT WORK?
During the workshop we will explore physical qualities such as tension
levels, elements and archetypes. We will then apply the work using texts from Shakespeare.
Please bring a short Shakespearean monologue you would like to work with.
WHAT DO YOU GET OUT OF IT?
This is an excellent opportunity to acquire a variety of
techniques for independent work for auditions and performance. The techniques will help
you to overcome fears or blocks while working on Shakespeare’s texts as well as help you to perform them in a more fluent and physical way.
Ariella is a theatre director, workshop leader teacher and a facilitator based in
London. She taught at the Actors Centre from 2002 until it has closed
down. She is also a tutor/ workshop leader in the UK and internationally.
She also taught and led workshops in some acting schools including
Mountview, Italia Conti, East 15 and DSL and currently working at the City Lit,
City Academy and London Actors Workshop.
As a director she worked on many productions along the years.
Directing experience includes: Krum(City Lit theatre company, John Lyons
theatre), Mum Thumb (part of Jewsicals, Arts Depot),The Chosen One
(Joyfully Jewish, Libra theatre) Under the skin (Tristan Bates Theatre,
Old Red Lion, Brighton and Camden fringe), 5 Kilo Sugar (Edinburgh
festival, Etcetera Theatre, Tristan Bates Theatre, Brighton fringe, JW3)
The Boy Dressed in Violins (BAC, Rich mix, CPT), New Writing From
Israel (Tristan Bates Theatre), Married to the Game (Theatre 503)
Yerma (Corbett Theatre), The Bald Prima Donna (New Players
Theatre), The Mythical Melting Pot (King’s Head), A Public Kind of
Privacy (Brighton Fringe, White Bear Theatre), Ya’akobi and Leidental
(Oval House theatre, New End and Soho Theatre), Crocodile Seeking
Refuge (Lyric Hammersmith). Rehearsed readings include: Close
Encounters (part of Little Pieces of Gold, Southwark play house), Miss
Dietrich Regrets(So and So at the Bridge), Baby Love (Fertility Fest
2018, Tristan Bates Theatre) Jerusalem Tango (JW3), The Scapegoat
(Tate Britain) I Am Speaking To you in Chinese, Ya’akobi and
Leidental, Hard Love (Hampstead Theatre), Voices from Israel (Soho
Theatre).
Ariella was the artistic director of Tik-sho-ret Theatre company which gives a
platform to Israeli and Jewish plays in the UK and create projects around
themes of communication and co-existence .
