Games That Teach Us to Play - with Toby Hulse

Wednesdays 21st & 28th February; 6th, 13th, 20th & 27th March 2024

6.30 - 9.30pm

About the Course:

Games and playing are the bedrock of performance. They offer enjoyable, practical and non-threatening ways to learn and rediscover the fundamentals of the actor's craft. This six week short course uses a multitude of games and rehearsal exercises drawn from a wide range of sources to explore:

• how to be responsive and reactive 'in the moment'

• focus on stage

• the relationship between actor and audience

• the actor as a creative artist

• and, ultimately, how plays work in performance.

An unusual and active approach to acting for anyone who loves being onstage.

About Toby Hulse:

Toby Hulse is a playwright, theatre director, and creative practitioner. He has made work for, amongst others, Bristol Old Vic, Tobacco Factory Theatres, the egg, Polka, the Unicorn, Theatr Clwyd, Oxford Playhouse, Watermill Newbury, Derby Playhouse, Leeds Playhouse, Birmingham Old Rep, and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and his plays are regularly performed across the world. His Bristol-based company Roustabout specialise in work for young and family audiences and are currently touring Dinosaurs and All That Rubbish, and rehearsing Little Red Riding Could. Toby teaches Improvisation, Clown, and Performing for Younger Audiences at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and Bristol School of Acting. Toby has twice won the Distinguished Play Award from the AATE (American Alliance of Theatre and Education).