STOP ACTING, START DOING with Hal Chambers (1.07.22)

Hal Chambers has been directing critically acclaimed work around the UK over the past 15 years. He has recently spent two years working for the Royal Shakespeare Company. This a chance to get an insight into his exciting rehearsal process which demands an energised curiosity, committed emotional intensity and a daring spirit.

The group will work with director, Hal, on group exercises, in pairs and on their own speeches.

Please prepare one short (approx 1 min) speech for the session. Actors will be working on other carefully selected scenes from classical and modern plays.

Open to beginners, recent graduates and experienced actors who want to blast the cobwebs off. Dress ready for physical work.

Press on Hal Chambers:

• ’The talented Hal Chambers' The Guardian

• 'Shakespeare for the OMG generation? Yes, yes, a thousand times yes, when it’s as good as this’.' ★★★★★ The Times on Hal's Romeo & Juliet

• 'Hal Chambers’s fleet-footed, verve-filled and lucid account of the play achieves an Agincourt-like victory’ ★★★★ The Telegraph on Hal's Henry V

MORE ABOUT HAL & HIS DIRECTOR CREDITS:

Trained: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, National Theatre Studio Directing Course ’09.

For the RSC: As Director: Michael Morpurgo’s Shakespeare Tales.

As Assistant Director: Tales for Winter, The Comedy of Errors.

Other Theatre Includes: As Director: The Ballad of Maria Marten (Stephen Joseph Theatre/ Eastern Angles/UK tour); 13 (Oxford School of Drama); Hansel and Gretel, A Christmas Carol

(RABBLE/South Street Arts Centre); Macbeth, Henry II, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night (RABBLE/Reading Minster Church); Henry V (Barn Theatre, Cirencester); The Bear (Pins and Needles/ Polka Theatre/UK and world tours); Ruff Guide to Shakespeare (BOVTS/tour/Edinburgh Fringe); Julius Caesar (RADA/Gdansk Shakespeare Festival); Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs: The Magic Cutlass (Let Petit/Queen Elizabeth Hall - Southbank Centre/UK tour/West End); Electra, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo & Juliet (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire); Matilda: The Empress, Henry the First of England, Much Ado About Nothing (RABBLE/St James’ Church); The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (Eastern Angles/tour); The Lights (Royal Court/Oxford School of Drama); Leaper: A Fish Tale (Tucked In/Lyric Hammersmith/UK tour); Vanity Fair (MiddleTemple Hall); Tommy Foggo: Superhero (Gulbenkian/UK tour); Richard II (Shakespeare’s Globe Higher Education); Ratchet (Soho Theatre/Oxford School of Drama); Ragnarok (Eastern Angles); Helver’s Night (York Theatre Royal); The Magical Playroom (UK tour); Jackajack, Tim & Light (Tucked In/UK tour); Sam Rose in the Shadows, The Golden Cowpat (Tucked In/Greenwich Theatre/tour).

As Director of R&D: Howl’s Moving Castle (Wales Millennium Centre/Lucid/Theatr Clwyd); Finding Victoria (Tucked In/Historic Royal Palaces); Iris and the Land of Words (Polka Theatre/ Winchester Theatre Royal); Crack Cocaine (Streatham Space Project/Southwark Playhouse/Audacity); Prudence Tanner: Publicly Traded Person (Bush Theatre).

As Puppetry Director: Knights of the Rose (West End).

As Assistant Director: Huis Clos (Donmar Warehouse); The Caretaker (Bolton Octagon); The Lost World (Bristol Old Vic); Metropolis (Theatre Royal Bath).

Hal is an Associate Director with RABBLE Theatre in Reading and was previously Artistic Director of touring company, Tucked In Productions. He is a General Education Practitioner at Shakespeare’s Globe.

BURSARIES

At Wildcard we believe everyone should have the chance to be creative. We want all our courses to be as open and inclusive as possible to anyone that wants to take part. We are aware that the cost of workshops and regular training is a key barrier in our industry for many people.

With this in mind, we are pleased to be able to offer 2 free places on each course.

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PAYMENT PLANS

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