Granary presents

IMPROVISATION MASTER-CLASS

GRANARY STUDIO 16 & 17 JULY 10am - 5PM

Having honed improv skills enables an actor to be more reactive, interactive, and totally in-the-moment at auditions and in performance. Improv can be used to develop original material and characters as well as are rehearsal tool to explore written text. In this master-class,performers will work through two different but related approaches.

Andy Crook: Working with the body in space, performers will explore how they can find true play and means of self-expression. Through simple exercises and physical actions they can find a true connection with the material they create. Performers will explore and release the different dynamics of the body order to create vibrant work using rhythm, physical musicality and each other. Performers will discover how they can extend their physical impulses to inhabit an exiting world of new possibilities.

John Dawson: Performers will explore various improv processes using collaborative games and exercises to develop personal intuitive skills, mental/emotional agility and heightened communication abilities. The elements of narrative; plot, character, conflict and resolution are emphasized along with the automatic acceptance of ‘offers’ to advance and develop scenic moments.

By melding these approaches, actors will learn to instantly create engaging, truthful and highly reactive characters in well-constructed scenic stories.

COST: 95.00 euro (35.00 euro deposit is required to enroll)

Email: improvplay@gmail.com
Phone: Andy: 087 92582166 and/or John: 087 2062004

ANDY CROOK trained at the Ecole International Jacques Lecoq and has taught acting and movement for over 20 years. He is an actor and director who has worked with several innovative theatre companies across Europe, UK and USA. He has taught in various accredited drama schools in the UK, most recently at the Birmingham School of Acting where he was Senior Acting Tutor as well as Director of the Community & Applied Theatre programme and Physical Theatre programme both of which he created. Andy taught for eight years on the professional
acting programme at Trinity College Dublin where he was Associated Course Co-ordinator and later Course Co-ordinator. Andy still performs and jointly won Best Male performer Award at the Dublin Fringe Festival performing with Articulate Anatomy Theatre Company, a physical theatre company he founded in 2003.

JOHN DAWSON studied and acted with numerous comedy troupes including N. America’s famous Second City (the forerunner of Saturday Night Live). He teaches master-classes and workshops in improvisation,
characterization, scene study, audition technique and on-camera acting with institutions in Ireland and abroad, including The Actors Centre in London, Dublin’s Gaiety School of Acting, The Galway Film Centre, Toronto’s Equity Showcase Theatre and Trinity College’s Samuel Beckett
Centre. He is a produced screenwriter/director with numerous films in development. John co-wrote and directed three plays devised through improv, performed at Andrews Lane Theatre and co-wrote for Articulate
Anatomy in 2005.

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