Everything I’ve learnt and taught, packed into a 4 day intensive
What do you get?
- How to easily break down a scene and bring it to life
- How to embody your character, make it unique, make it yours.
- How to use improvisation to learn lines and make your performance really pop.
- How to develop character and connect to other actors.
- How to use play to unlock your unique style to the work
This will be a fun place to play and learn and deepen your skills
What does the Intensive look like?
Well.
Thursday evening. We’ll begin with simple theatre exercises and then move into approaches to script.
Friday – We’ll spend the day diving into how to break down a scene and begin to bring it to life
Sat – Today brings how to approach a character and using improvisation to lift a scene off the page
Sun – Putting it all together.
You will get to work in duo’s in trio’s and as a larger group. It will be a safe space to bring yourself, your creativity, learn and have fun.
Who does this suit?
This intensive will work best for those 18years+ and if you have a some experience in the craft, not a lot but some. You don’t have to be a professional but maybe you’ve done a play or you belong to a drama club/society and your wanting to expand and extend your skills.
When?
We start on Thursday Oct 22, 6 – 10pm.
Friday Oct 23rd 9.30 – 4.30
Saturday 10 – 4
Sunday 10 – 2
Four days of deep work that will expand and grow your acting abilities. You will leave feeling more confident of your skills and who you are as an actor
Total cost for the Intensive $650
Places are limited. Secure your spot with a $150 deposit.
Who am I?
I currently teaching at Deakin University as unit chair of Improvisation and lecturing in Acting studio, Theatre Production and Production Lab.
I have a Honours Degree in Creative Arts where I focused on play and the ‘flow state’
I have also been lecturing Heightened Performance at Federation University.
I have taught at these two Uni’s for the last 8-10 years.
I spent 20 years as an actor and artistic director of two independent theatre companies. I have written and performed 6 solo shows.
I’ve performed for many years with physical theatre company Born in a Taxi as well as Bunk Puppet theatre.
I’m still an actor, mostly for TV. I’m still doing screen tests and auditions and working in front of camera.
When it comes to live performance I am telling stories in a duo with my wife. They are mythopoetic stories/ fables. It’s a unique style of performance that still requires many of my performance skills just in slightly different blend.
My approach
I have a great blend of both the ‘inside out’ approach to performance and the ‘outside in’.
What on earth does that mean?
In my earlier days of training I was doing everything. Training in Stanislavsky’s ‘System’, learning and practising improvisation with ‘theatresports’ and ‘playback’ theatre as well as completing my Post Graduate Diploma in Drama. So a real mix.
Then I trained in the European physical theatre traditions of mask and physical theatre and devised theatre.
I teach Acting Studio at Deakin, I’m lecturing and running workshops that look at the psychological approach to performance and the physical approach and I’m loving it.
James Pratt 