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RADIUS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING: 18 September 2010 The meeting:
1.30 pm in the Club for Acts and Actors, Bedford Street (opposite the entrance to St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden) Please come along to the AGM if possible in order to meet and welcome our new President The Right Rev Graeme Knowles, hear what the society is doing, meet the people who are making things happen, and to have your say. You can attend the AGM meeting then go in search of culture, food or the shops, but if you would like to do some practical drama as well we are offering a workshop in two parts, both before and after the meeting, led by Anna Wheeler. Details are below.
The workshop:
Anything but Acting: physicality, communication and being true
11-12.30 and 3-4.30 in The Club for Acts and Actors
Tutor: Anna Wheeler
Cost: £10 (£15 non-members). Cheques should be payable to Radius.
Please apply by 4 September to Elsie Peace, 25 Gilling Way, Malton YO17 7LQ
Anna writes: You can only work with what you’ve got. Acting is about being, and bringing your own truth to a part enabling you to explore a character. As you approach activities from a physical perspective, keep alert to how you feel and what you see in others’ work. Essentially, I’m looking for body informing emotion. Our bodies are much better at responding spontaneously to events in reality, so body language is always crucial on stage to provide ‘reality’ in a ‘make-believe’ setting.
I plan to bring ideas from my time at drama school, some workshops done with Frantic Assembly Theatre Company and most recently an RSC weekend, focusing on a physical theatre approach to drama. Please don't be put off by thinking this will involve excessive movement - it will not and the workshop will be very gentle, hopefully providing imaginative ideas on how to approach creating a character and effective scene building, and then applying some activities on posture and walking to everyday life too (good acting is not performing but 'being': the area I am interested in as you'll know from my articles for Radius!). Anna Wheeler (stage name Anna Westerly) trained with The Actors Company at the London Centre for Theatre Studies in 2007. She taught English in Poland and Ghana after graduating in Theology from Heythrop College, University of London, in 2003. =============================================================== New Radius Christmas typescript: Time to Sing by Keith Clements. 13 speaking parts, extras. 40 minutes. This appealing new Radius typescript is based on a simple idea: it’s the Nativity told from the point of view of the angels. The junior angels in the choir are practising for a secret event, and finally Michael agrees to tell them what it’s all about, which is an excuse for some simple and well-explained theology. "There’s going to be a new creation … made from within the old." One junior angel has been looking through the library’s special collection and wants to perform the "Hallelujah Chorus," but "we’ll have to wait until George Frederick Handel is ready to be inspired to write it." Finally they sing for the shepherds, who set off for Bethlehem. "Tell you what – them teachers of the law are in for a surprise. We’d better warn ’em – they’ll have to check out their sermons ’gainst what ’e says when ’e’s grown up." There’s an option for Mary and Joseph to appear in mime.
The staging can be as simple or sophisticated as desired. Two specially composed pieces of music are available, but singers may wish to substitute existing music with the same message. Order the script now from
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@ £6 for the photocopiable typescript.
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