Locating Inspiration in Shakespeare's Text
Saturday 20th January 2024
10.30am - 4.30pm
About the Class:
How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath
To say to me that thou art out of breath?
Have you ever considered the impact taking a breath has on your performance? This masterclass highlights the importance of breath in the actor's process by unveiling how breath gives life to thought and emotion. This masterclass will help you to open up a fresh and truthful connection with Shakespeare's text and will encourage you to place breath, the most fundamental and most invisible of creative forces, at the heart of your own performance practice.
About Bryn Holding:
Bryn is Associate director of Hammerpuzzle Theatre Co, an Associate Artist of the egg, Theatre Royal Bath and was Resident Assistant Director at the New Vic Theatre (2016-2017). Bryn is a Guest Director at The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Later this year, Bryn will direct The Snow Queen and Lark Rise to Candleford for The Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham.
Bryn’s directing work includes: Home Girl (Derby Theatre), The Woodlanders, Under The Greenwood Tree, The Old Curiosity Shop, The Owl & The Pussycat, The Velveteen Rabbit and The Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (Hammerpuzzle Theatre Co / Everyman Theatre Cheltenham) King John (Hammerpuzzle Theatre Co, commissioned by Theatre Royal Bath); Across the sky (Opera - Cheltenham Music Festival) The Sloe Pickers, The Arrivals (Theatre Royal Bath, the egg ) , On The Mend (Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham), Common Lore (Award winning - Breakthrough Performance Rural Touring Awards 2019 for Stute Theatre/ Northern Broadsides) , Great Expectations (Newbury Corn Exchange), Just Soph (Stute Theatre/New Vic Tour), Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors (Greenwich Theatre/ Sell a Door Theatre Company); A Midsummer Night's Dream (UK Tour, Sell a Door).
Bryn’s acting credits include work with the RSC, New Vic, Manchester Royal Exchange, Derby Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, Theatre By The lake, Tobacco Factory Bristol, York Theatre Royal, Pilot Theatre Co, Stephen Joseph Theatre and the Liverpool Everyman.