BRAEMAR ARTS FESTIVAL PROPOSED DRAMA SESSIONS

Braemar Festival is looking forward to welcoming a tutor of the calibre of Carole Williams, the National Advisor to the Scottish Community Drama Association. Carole will be teaching for two days, Thursday 24th and Friday 25th October. She has divided her workshop into four 3 hour sessions as described below. Each session will be £10, and all four sessions for £30. You can sign up for as many or as few sessions as you like.

All sessions will be practical although no experience is necessary
A warm welcome is guaranteed and sessions will be tailored to the abilities of individuals within the group
You do not need to attend all of the sessions to be a part of the performance.
Anyone not wishing to perform  at the end of Day 2 can opt out but still attend any or all of the workshops

Day 1 - Session 1

Getting to know each other through drama games and exercises
Exploring ‘playing’ as a basis for creativity
Looking at different ways to make theatre
Exploring performance

Day 1 - Session 2
How to Begin – using a variety of starting points
Pooling our individual skills and knowledge to generate ideas
Experimenting through devised performance

Day 2 - Session 1

Re-establish the group through warm-up

Revisiting material from Day 1

Composing the overall piece

Day 2 - Session 2

Making and rehearsing
Evaluation

 

Day 2 evening - PERFORMING!