In addition to a series of theatre devising with a visiting student group, I will be teaching workshops through the summer months. For me actors often do their best work in the workshop environment. We all need that space to develop our work. We are freer and discover more. The trick then is to take that freedom into the rehearsal room and the performance arena. To do that we need to feel confident that the training we have absorbed has become our own, and even then we have to keep fresh, keep touching base. I myself am committed to going to train every few years.
Here is a list of Chekhov Training and Performance Ireland workshops.
Chekhov/Shakespeare Muireann Ni Raghaillaigh, Conor Geoghegan
Comedy/Chekhov/Composition/Cucumber sandwiches
June 20th-July 6th. Galway City
In a twice weekly evening session [18 hrs training] beginning the 20 th June for just three weeks, this course will play with Chekhov technique with comedy using Wilde’s Importance of Being Earnest. this work comes out of a highly successful weekend workshop done some years ago and will explore how using the Chekhov approach, completely new expressions of the play can be found. Suitable for actors, students, directors, designers [as long as they like to perform]
cost 90 euro
to book your place email chekhovtrainperformireland@gmail.com. you will need to send a deposit to secure your place.
Journey Through Atmosphere: NUI Galway August 24th – 27th.
From the recent workshop Expressing the Invisible. Naia Martz and Fiona Quinn..photo John Mchugh
Following on from the highly successful Exploring the Invisible summer school last year, Journey through Atmosphere focuses on two of the most important aspects of the Chekhov work. A performance takes us on a journey and through that journey the character takes action. A strong tool for an actor to discover the character journey or indeed the journey of a whole play is through psychological gesture, a way of using the body to unearth psychological actions and qualities for the character .These actions do not take place in a vacuum however and the workshop will spend an equal amount of time on Atmosphere and how it influences what the characters want and how they act. By combining these two Chekhov tools, participants will be able to take these two powerful tools into the rehearsal room. 23 hours training.
The play we will be working with is one of the epic ‘journey’ plays, PERICLES by Shakespeare which travels through a number of ‘lands’ each with their particular atmosphere.
apply by email to chekhovtrainperformireland@gmail.com check out the website http://www.chekhovtrainingandperformanceireland.com
cost 180 euro.
Max Hafler - Radiating /Receiving 