Our first Guest Workshop

As professional actors ourselves, we are very honored to have invited a professional actor from the States to hold a workshop for us, hope we can keep on our training and wish to share this with other actors in the field, too.

“THE STYLE” - A Commedia Dell’Arte Influenced Acting Workshop by Theatre de R & D

Class : 4 class x 4 hours each (16hrs in total)
Date : Feb 17 to Mar 9 2008 (4 Sundays)
Time : 2-6pm
Venue: Loftstage (http://www.loftstage.com/)
Fee: $1,500 (with $500 cash back will be rewarded to students with full attendance)
Language : Course will be conducted in English

Guest Instructor : Mr. P. Adam Walsh, professional actor and director in United States.

As an actor, Mr. Walsh has spent 6 years with The Actors' Gang Theatre in LA, (http://www.theactorsgang.com/), performing in "1984"(US and worldwide tour performance, including 2007 Hong Kong Arts Festival), “Tartuffe,” Embedded,” “Mephisto”, Alagazam”, “Little”, and also starring in film and television work includes “Strong Medicine”, “Citizen Bains” and independent film “Still Doing the Safety Dance.”

Mr. Walsh is also active as a director, and his recent projects included "Gulliver's Travel's", "Pericles On The High Seas", and the new one act play, "Soldiering On".

While he worked with The Actors’ Gang, the company used to held workshops in Commedia Dell’Arte to enhance actors’ ability, and now, while residing in Hong Kong, he is very much willing to share it with our local professionals.

COURSE OVERVIEW:

The course is mainly for professional actors or people with strong interest and background in acting. In the four 4-hour workshops, participants will learn the basic principles of Commedia dell Arte and apply them to a contemporary style and method of acting compiled from improvisation, “state” work, and a series of exercises designed to allow and inspire each individual to be physically, emotionally, and mentally “open” and “free”.

The participants will learn that by making strong choices while engaged on the stage they can and will begin to shed self-conscious constraints that hinder true artistic expression, and this will further enable the participants to take the stage in an energetic/commanding way in order to work towards mastering the art of performance.

If you would like to enroll for the workshop, please contact us by email at theatre.de.rd@gmail.com, or by phone at 9288 2393 (Ms Lucretia Ho)