Description
Have you ever wanted to mine your lived experience and transform it into
art?
In this immersive workshop, Hannah will guide you through a process of making
the often tricky transition from lived experience to fiction. Using storytelling,
imagination, visualisation and character excavation, you’ll take a remembered
experience and begin to transform it into a fictional character and world.
Through a series of playful and practical exercises, you’ll get the opportunity to
swim in memories that matter and discover if there is a story inside you that’s
yearning to be told.
The aim is not to create a finished piece in three hours, but to give you a
starting point: a fictional character and a world that you can continue to
develop into your own work.
Hannah is a director, actor, writer and teacher. She is an associate artist of
Playing ON theatre company and a founding member of the 5* sketch group
Comedy Bitch. Her multidisciplinary career spans theatre, comedy, clown,
physical theatre, TV and short film. She directed Hope 4 Justice which saw her
collaborating with the Mercury nominated ESKA, wrote and performed her oneperson show The Clown, T & Me in collaboration with Confucius MC and trained
with the world -renowned Philippe Gaulier. She is a visiting director at
Chichester University and the host and executive producer of The Difference
Podcast.
Testimonials
“Possibly one of the most marvellously enjoyable and truly promising acts.
Comedy Gold”. – Time Out for Comedy Bitch.
“Staggeringly Good”. – Hannah Kendall, Composer review for The Clown, T &
Me.
“This show is brilliant” – Debs Patterson, film director review for The Clown, T &
Me.
“There are doubtless bigger budget productions being planned in response to
Grenfell. There should be, it is a scar on our national conscience. But it’s hard
to imagine any of them will offer more passion or sincerity than this one”. –
Natalie Haynes, Guardian review for The Burning Tower.
“Hannah gives me confidence, insight and the joy otherwise lacking in the selftape process, and as I send it off, I do so with pride knowing it is a far better
audition than it would have been without her”. – Rachael Stirling, actress.
