Living Pictures are our friends and colleagues and we’re delighted to be able to advertise their Summer Retreat! People from the Lidless Team, and participants on our workshops, are already signed up. We’d love to see you there…more info below.
All our best,
Lidless Team
Deepening skills, finding presence.
You are invited to join us for the Living Pictures Summer retreat with Catherine Alexander (Complicite, RNT) Max Harrison (Lidless Theatre) hosted by Robbie Bowman and Elen Bowman (RNT, RSC, Living Pictures) @ Coed Dylan (Dylan’s wood) - The Project | Living Pictures Productions
We will work with different rehearsal approaches to understand how methods can compliment and enhance our process as actors and directors and take time to reflect and rejuvinate our creativity and sense of community.
Venue: Coed Dylan (retreat space in Carmarthenshire, Wales).
Dates: Monday July 31st to Monday August 7th
Times: 10am on Monday until Sunday evening at 10pm.
Cost: £300
Who For: Actors, Directors and Writers
Course Details
Catherine will engage the imagination and body to play with presence, sensation and space. By engaging with the natural landscape participants will experience how space and environment resonate through the body to re-awaken connections, restore energy and share new ways of creating work.
Robbie will explore the fundamentals of Meisner technique, mantras, NLP and elements of Michael Chekhov technique.
Max will focus on developing this work into scene study incorporating some of Mike Alfreds’ work, along with mindfulness practice. Catherine will collaborate by looking at physical methods to embody this work.
Elen will offer 1-1 coaching for participants wishing to explore their current projects and creative challenges.
The team will incorporate meditation and mindfullness into the program as well as allow time in nature to encourage mindful connection and inner reflection.
There will be an opportunity to support the Coed Dylan Centre by helping with meal preparation or light volunteer tasks in our garden.
ABOUT the team
Catherine Alexander
Studied Drama at Manchester University and trained at L'Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris. She is Artistic Director of Quiconque (PUSH, Biscuits of Love, Hideaway and Big Bad Duvet Terror) and she has worked with Complicité for over twenty five years.
Shows with Complicité include: I’ll Take You To Mrs Cole, Tomorrow I’ll Be Twenty, The Master and Margarita, A Disappearing Number, The Elephant Vanishes, The Chairs, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Out of a house walked a man....
Other directing includes Hexenhammer, Secretariat, The Gypsy Bible, Opera North, Touching Space Royal Academy of Art and The Boy from Centreville, Pleasance. Other work includes Wild Oats, Bristol Old Vic, Coram Boy, National Theatre and Adventures in Moominland and Super Troupers for the Southbank. Catherine won the Young Vic, Jerwood Prize in 2006 for work on Amédée and the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award in 2011 for her devised production SOLD.
Max Harrison
Max is a freelance theatre director. His work ranges from devised shows to new writing and revivals. After training as an actor at LAMDA he was mentored by Mike Alfreds and recently assisted him on Five Characters in Search of a Good Night’s Sleep (eSouthwark Playhouse). He is interested in process orientated rehearsals that centre around the actor’s creativity and imagination.
Professional directing credits include Leaves of Glass (Park Theatre), Tender Napalm (King’s Head Theatre), Moonfleece, (Pleasance Theatre), In Place of Fear (Pleasance Theatre) and Little Pieces of Gold (Southwark Playhouse). Alongside his professional work he also directs at drama schools, credits include Festen (East 15), Pillars of the Community (Bridge Theatre TC), and The Oresteia (East 15).
His plays have been nominated for 3 Best Lead Performer OFFIES and a Best Ensemble OFFIE.
Robbie Bowman
Robbie is co-director of Living Pictures. He is an Actor, most recently The Normal Heart (National Theatre), The Tempest (Wiltshire Creative), an Acting lecturer currently at RWCMD, WAVDA and recently at Central School of Speech and Drama . Robbie hosts the Living Pictures Acting Studios in London. He is a recipient of a Creative Wales Award 2016. Full biog here.
Elen Bowman
Elen is co-director of Living Pictures. She is an acting & directing lecturer, dramaturg and directing coach and has directed and commissioned new writing. Her coaching work began with Katie Mitchell and James MacDonald funded by NESTA in 2000. She also coached Ian Rickson during his tenure at the Royal Court. Her inspiration is the teachings of Maria Knebel, Stanislavski’s pupil. For Living Pictures director training courses Elen created parnerships with Goethe Glasgow, National Theatre of Scotland, Sherman Cymru and Theatr Genedlaethol as well as coaching for Derby Playhouse and Regional Directors Scheme. She currently lectures in acting and directing at WAVDA, Univeristy of Wales. Elen is the recipient of a Creative Wales Award 2017.
Booking Info
THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT.
For any questions and to ask to be put on the waiting list, please email: lpworkshops14@gmail.com. Please title the email - Summer Workshops.
Please talk to us if you need to pay by installments, etc.