One Day workshop
FINDING THE WORLD OF THE PLAY
Tutors Max Hafler and Roberta Nolan.
Finding the world of the play is vital if you want your character to fit into the frame of the artistic production, like finding your place in an orchestra. Without that frame we can often be at sea as artists. How often have we said when watching a show, “Well this or that actor was very good, but not really connected to the production.”It can be deeply unsatisfying
A good element in the Michael Chekhov approach is the use of General Atmosphere . Chekhov called it “the soul of the performance”. The atmosphere affects everything the characters do, the style, the mood and weight  of the play and most importantly the audience pick up this intangible feel from the performance which set design and lighting cannot sustain alone.
Finding the atmosphere gives the performance a wholeness (Chekhov calls it a Feeling of the Whole) in which your performance can grow and develop.
Using exercises and principles from the Michael Chekhov Approach and using short early scenes from Hamlet, Roberta and Max will explore how atmosphere affects a scene or indeed powers an entire play.
Maximum number 16.
Day fee €50/ €30 students/concessions
email chekhovtpi@gmail.com to book your place