Intro to Acting - Limerick Weekend Workshop

Overview

This course is designed to give you a taste of The Lir Academy's actor training through our ever-popular Introduction to Acting course over an intensive weekend in Limerick, led by award-winning actress Ruth Lehane.

Venue is currently being updated and will be announced soon.

This course is the perfect opportunity to experience the kinds of exercises and techniques to build your confidence as an actor. These are methods we use as part of actor training at The Lir Academy to learn to develop acting skills. The course will also give you a flavour of what the daily routine would be like as an acting student.

The Lir Academy's programmes require complete dedication to developing the body, voice and movement - honing your craft so that you emerge a more robust practitioner. The skills that our actors learn are through classes and modules to support the discipline and rigour physically needed to build on your own talent, as well as the critical thinking required, to approach a role.

This weekend course aims to give participants an understanding of all of this, under the guidance of an experienced tutor.
The course is suitable for all ages 18+, no experience necessary.

Content includes:

• Vocal and physical warm-ups
• Ensemble play - working as a group
• How to analyse a text
• How to make interesting, detailed, dynamic choices.

About Ruth Lehane :

Ruth Lehane is an award winning actress, writer and theatre maker. She trained at Ecole Jacques Lecoq, Paris; the Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College, Dublin; and The Theatre Resource Centre, Toronto.
She is the founder of Fourth Leaf Theatre Company. Ruth's company makes theatre that provokes, challenges and delights an audience.

Her vast range of experience as an actor and theatre maker has seen her work with makers of original work and practitioners of innovative practises. She has worked with a diverse range of companies both nationally and internationally some of which include; The Abbey, Dublin; The Lyric, Belfast; Barabbas; Blue Raincoat; The Ark; Big Telly; The Belgrade Theatre; Cahoots NI; Tinderbox and Fabulous Beast.
She has toured with her work internationally to London, Edinburg, Glasgow, Barcelona, Madrid, Berlin, Bulgaria, Romania and New York.

Ruth is a highly skilled facilitator. Influenced by the methodology of Jacques Lecoq and the disciplines of Theatre of Clown, Neutral Mask, Gestural Language and The Architecture of the Space, her unique range of experience makes her workshops exciting, inspirational and fun. This physical and creative approach draws on the imagination and offers a place to explore and be challenged.

Venue: The Metropolitan Arts Centre

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