Autumn Classes Now On Sale: Activate Your Rebellion

8 September 2020

This autumn: Activate Your Rebellion! Grab your placard and head for the virtual stage with our online creative learning programme, back for a new term following the success of our digital classes in spring and summer.

 

Activate Your Rebellion is a series of 6 week courses using Zoom video conferencing, running during September and October 2020, with adult classes in acting technique, a script based acting course and devising, as well as drama and performance skills classes for children and young people aged between 4 – 18.

 

The courses will focus on the study of different performers, practitioners and companies that use their medium as a platform for activism and social change, such as Cardboard Citizens, Graeae, Akala, Kae Tempest and Good Chance Theatre.

 

Lead by professional actor and creative learning facilitator Amy Allen and professional director and experienced creative learning facilitator Natasha Kathi-Chandra, the courses will be held weekly and are available to book now by clicking this link.

 

Last term we released Jury – a brand-new play by Martin Murphy (Bruised Sky) - performed by a previous cohort of Park Theatre Company - Script Class, who worked on together as an online theatre company for 10 weeks during lockdown. The recorded performance was free to view, but audiences had the chance to donate to the theatre’s Park Life Fund, to help secure the future of the theatre. Jury received positive acclaim from critics and audiences alike, had 3.6k views on YouTube, and raised approximately £7k for the fund.

 

Community Engagement Manager Nina Graveney-Edwards said: “We are delighted to be able to continue engaging with our community through our virtual creative learning classes and I am really pleased with the outcome of last terms’ classes, where our participants created a high caliber of work, which was received in such a positive and highly respected way. We can’t wait to kick start this new term with you!”


COURSES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

A Day in the Life (4 – 6year olds)

Saturday 12 September – Saturday 17 October (6 weeks), 10.00am – 10.50am, £7 per session


A Day in the Life will take you on a virtual tour of our neighbourhood. Each week you will meet a new, local, friendly face and find out what they do for a day of the week. You will learn about what they like to cook, eat, listen to and do with their free time, all whilst acting out scenarios from their day as you imagine it.

Get ready to make some new friends and to know your neighbourhood even better, all from the comfort of your own home via Zoom!

 

A Day in the Life (7 - 11 year olds):

Saturday 12 September – Saturday 17 October (6 weeks), 11.15am – 12.15pm, £7 per session


A Day in the Life will take you on a virtual tour of our neighbourhood. Each week you will meet a new, local, friendly face and find out what they do for a day of the week. You will learn about what they like to cook, eat, listen to and do with their free time, all whilst acting out scenarios from their day as you imagine it.

Get ready to make some new friends and to know your neighbourhood even better, all from the comfort of your own home via Zoom!

 

Activism in Performance: Younger Company (12 - 14 year olds):

Tuesday 15 September – Tuesday 20 October (6 weeks), 6.00 – 7.30pm, £7 per session


This course will act as an introduction to social activism within performance, with a view to using this as a research and development period to inform the work that you create in the next term.

Activism in Performance is part of our Activate Your Rebellion season, where we challenge you to embrace your local community, assess the world around you and look at how we can action positive change.

 

Activism in Performance: Young Company (15 – 18 year olds):

Tuesday 15 September – Tuesday 20 October (6 weeks), 7.45 – 9.15pm, £7 per session


This course will act as an introduction to social activism within performance, with a view to using this as a research and development period to inform the work that you create in the next term.

Activism in Performance is part of our Activate Your Rebellion season, where we challenge you to embrace your local community, assess the world around you and look at how we can action positive change.


COURSES FOR ADULTS

Activism in Performance (Adults): Acting Course

Wednesday 16 September – Wednesday 21 October (6 weeks), 6.30 – 8.00pm, £10 per session


This course will explore a variety of script-based works, both comedy and drama, that have an emphasis on writers who use their platform for activism and social change. You will be sent scenes in advance of class and we will work on them  with an aim of discovering different ways in which to connect with the content and the characters; ultimately exploring how you can bring your own uniqueness to a role.

 

Activism in Performance (Adults): Devising Course

Thursday 17 September – Thursday 22 October (6 weeks), 6.30 – 8.00pm, £10 per session


Be a part of an acting community online and get an introduction to social activism within performance. Focus on research and development over 6 weeks, which will inform the work that you create in the following term.

Devise your own work as an individual and as a company through improvisation and writing. Feed back to other members of the company and develop your own work.

 

Activism in Performance (Adults): Script Course

Thursday 17 September – Thursday 22 October (6 weeks), 8.15 – 9.45pm, £10 per session

Be part of an acting community online; develop your performance skills virtually over 6 weeks, studying and rehearsing excerpts of scripts from practitioners who use their medium for social change. This course will act as an introduction to social activism within performance, with a view to using this research and development period to inform the work that you create in the next term.

 

Book online HERE