Masterclass: Scene Study with Terry Johnson - Observer ticket

This is an observer ticket- you will not be an active participant in the class. 

The workshop will be an exploration of the text to stage process. Active participants will be asked to arrive having been sent and (optionally) learnt some pages of text. You will then be paired to rehearse together. We shall analyse the text, and your performance of it. The work will be organic rather than formal, and will lead us where it will. The emphasis will be on the potential improvement of your acting and directing skills through detailed study. Stanislavsky based, with perhaps a Laban interlude, and some excellent anecdotes. 

TERRY JOHNSON'S work has been performed all over Great Britain and worldwide. He is the recipient of a dozen major theatre awards including the Tony Award for Best Director of a Musical 2010, Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival and Critics Circle Best Musical 2009 for LA CAGE AUX FOLLES. He also won the Olivier Awards for Best Comedy of 1994 and of  1999, Playwright of the Year 1995, Critics Circle Best New Play 1995, The League of American Theatres and Producers Best Touring Play 2001, two Evening Standard Theatre Awards, Time Out Best Play Award 1995, Writers Guild Best Play 1995, Writers Guild Best play 1996, the Mayer-Whitworth Award 1993 and the John Whiting Award 1991. In addition he has received over a dozen further nominations for various awards.

In recent years he has had fourteen productions running in London’s West End; MRS HENDERSON PRESENTS, THE LIBERTINE, END OF THE RAINBOW, THE PRISONER OF SECOND AVENUE, (with Jeff Goldblum) THE RISE AND FALL OF LITTLE VOICE, LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, RAINMAN, WHIPPING IT UP, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOOS NEST, (with Christian Slater)   HITCHCOCK BLONDE (with Rosamund Pike), ENTERTAINING MR SLOANE, THE GRADUATE (with Kathleen Turner), DEAD FUNNY, HYSTERIA (with Sir Antony Sher), ELTON JOHN'S GLASSES and THE MEMORY OF WATER.

Other credits include: 

Royal National Theatre: CLEO, CAMPING, EMMANUELLE AND DICK, THE LONDON CUCKOLDS and SPARKLESHARK 

Royal Court Theatre; INSIGNIFICANCE, CRIES FROM THE MAMMAL HOUSE, HYSTERIA, HITCHCOCK BLONDE and PIANO/FORTE (With Kelly Reilly and Alicia Witt) and Joe Penhall’s DUMB SHOW

Hampstead Theatre:  TO HAVE AND TO HOLD, UNCLE VANYA, PRISM (With Robert Lindsay, HYSTERIA, RACE, OLD MONEY (With Maureen Lipman), SEMINAR, KEN 

Theatre Royal Stratford East: OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR and FINGS AIN’T WHAT THEY USED T’BE.

Bath Theatre Royal: CHARLOTTE AND THEODORE, THE DRESSER.

Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago: LOST LAND and THE LIBERTINE (with John Malkovich)

In addition he has written and directed television drama that has been broadcast worldwide, including NOT ONLY BUT ALWAYS for Channel Four, which won five International Award nominations, Best Film at Banff, and the Best Actor Bafta for Rhys Ifans. He directed THE MAN WHO LOST HIS HEAD and wrote and directed 'COR BLIMEY! for ITV, the latter of which which was nominated by the Royal Television Society as Best Drama. He also wrote THE BITE for the BBC and ABC Australia. His film WAY UPSTREAM was chosen for the London Film Festival and INSIGNIFICANCE was the official British Entry at Cannes in 1985.

Further info here: https://tj5851.wixsite.com/terry-johnson