Strictly Sixpack

Entry-level foundation short course [6 days over 6 weeks]

‘Play it to a Five!’ Get match-fit for entering the industry or full-time actor training with this six-week introduction to the Dangerosity approach to truthful acting. Be bold in your thinking, brave in your doing, commit to your choices and stay curious so that you’re always connected; understand the value of flexibility and specificity whilst retaining your authenticity; explore text in ways you never thought possible by challenging your own creative response; deepen character choices by build your understanding of personality differences and behavioural qualities. Above all, feel positively inspired to stretch your potential. Weekly pre-work: short scene line-learning.

When: 4th May - 8th June

(6 week course every Tuesday)

Time: 10:00-16:00

Where: Wildcard Studios, 18 Balderton Street, London, W1K 6TG

During each full-day session, we’ll focus on specific theoretical aspects that will then be put into practice using various exercises and games, together with allocated scenes from mixed-genre plays. This practical mix of thinking and doing is designed to develop your curiosity, flexibility and specificity whilst maintaining your authenticity both as an actor and as a human being, so that you can easily trigger your own creative response. Peer feedback is an important part of the process, which gradually deepens into an impulse-led approach to enabling you to find truthful performance in any medium. Scenes will be allocated ahead of time to allow for line-learning.

‘Only had two sessions and I feel like I’ve learned so much already…really insightful teaching and techniques that I’ve already used, and which have already made me feel more confident in my performance.’ TOM

‘Glynne creates a supportive & friendly space for actors to connect, develop & explore creatively & collaboratively whilst challenging themselves. It’s fun & it’s empowering.’ BELLA

‘The playground Glynne offers is fun, ACTUALLY safe and challenging…sign up if you want to dig deep and really play, stretch and learn.’ NADJA

‘The freedom and lack of fear in everyone’s performances increased staggeringly over the six weeks. Thanks to Glynne and the fantastic group of actors on this course, I feel newly empowered and have regained confidence in my ability.’ HOLLY

‘Glynne’s direction and guidance is inspiring.’ CHESKA

‘An incredibly supportive and creatively joyful environment.’ ALEX

‘I learnt and developed so much as an actor and as a human during these sessions. They are super fun but also push you to try new things. It truly is a safe space to play in! Gives me something to really look forward to every week!’ HONEY

‘The highlight of my week guaranteed for 6 weeks every Friday are The Actor’s Sixpack workshops. Without a doubt some of the best actor trainings I have had the pleasure to experience. Challenging and unique with the focal approach of confidence and empowerment to give the actor autonomy - enabling them to create the best work with minimal effort and quick practical techniques that can be used anytime- any audition (and in life ) with a mass of fun to boot. Cannot recommend highly enough.’ LIV

‘I’ve been a professional actor for 14 years. The last few have been tough and I’ve suffered from constant anxiety, lack of confidence, and lack of faith in myself and the art/business of acting itself. Over the past twelve months I have found very little to persuade me that it is worth continuing to pursue this path.

Having worked with Glynne as a director in the past, I decided to sign up to the Actors’ six pack as a means of deciding my future one way or the other. I never imagined that in such a short space of time (six days!) I would rediscover the incomparable joy that comes from complete immersion in scene and committing to character completely without self-consciousness or judgement. Within a very short space of time Glynne managed to get a room of twelve actors (many of whom didn’t know each other and were at a place in their career where they were also feeling insecure and full of doubt) working together, and fully supporting and constructively criticising each other’s work. He shared ideas and approaches to character and scene that I am already applying, both in my work as an actor and in daily life. The freedom and lack of fear in everyone’s performances increased staggeringly over the six weeks. Thanks to Glynne and the fantastic group of actors on this course, I feel newly empowered and have regained confidence in my ability. Playing on stage is once again thrilling rather than terrifying, and the future looks bright and exciting! I absolutely recommend the actors 6 pack to any actor who wants a safe but challenging space to play and push themselves. 5 out of 5!’ HOLLY