Saturday Workshops

The Saturday workshops at Nodehill Middle School have been varied and exciting so far this term. A change of venue has given us more space to work in - not to mention the extra running around space for some of our more energetic drama games! We started the term with the usual "back to basics" skills - amazing how some actors forget all about posture and focus after an 8 week break! But everyone is well and truly on form, having worked on posture, gesture, physical theatre, vocal skills, accents and the devising process. Joe Ashworth and Bill Holland gave us plenty to laugh about with their "inept pilots" sketch, while Marie Hickman and friends brought us close to tears with their devised piece last Saturday. In the younger group we can really see how confident some students have become over the past few weeks, with devised pieces that showed great maturity and creativity. Now we will start to work towards 2 devised performances for around Feb/March 2010 - subject matter to be revealed at a later date.....Watch this space!