Acting Classes and Workshops
(all are for adults: 16+)

Drama: Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast

Rosie has been running this popular acting class since September 1999.

Develop skills in voice, movement and improvisation.

Gain confidence in your communication skills

Extend your creative potential

Perform in-depth text work, using scenes and monologues from classic and modern plays

Work towards an end of course performance

Comedy Improvisation: Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast

Comedy Improvisation at the Crescent has been growing in popularity since its inception in January 2006, so much so that Rosie has now created three separate comedy courses to cater for demand.

Develop comedy improvisation as an art form

Learn the skills of comedy ‘impro’ through particular exercises and games

See your confidence grow as you are fully supported in your ability to structure scenes

Skills learned include: co-operation and listening; shaping of scene structure aiming towards a story climax; co-creation; offers and endowments; clarity of ideas; validity of imagined environment

Progress towards abilities in mime; status awareness; use of gestures; voice production; character creation; spontaneity; confidence in performance

Have a lot of fun!

Rosie teaches Speak Out!: A Verbal Communication Course at the Crescent Arts Centre. Students learn how to harness the natural power of their speaking voices and communicate confidently and expressively in work situations and everyday life.

Workshops

Rosie has created specialist drama, voice and performance workshops for actors and students including:

At the Crescent Arts Centre:

• Modern Theatre Practitioners: Augusto Boal
• Page to Stage: Major Playwrights of the 20th Century: Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett
• Voice For the Actor: workshops on developing the actor’s vocal flexibility, power and expression.
• Short Summer Drama Courses: actors develop skills of improvisation, scene study, audition and monologue techniques

At King Street Arts:
• Classical Theatre Performance: workshops to train the actor in classical techniques, including approaches to playing Shakespeare and Restoration Comedy.

At Queen’s University:
• ‘Playing Shakespeare’: classes in Shakespearean acting at QUB Open Learning. Sign up NOW for January. Tel: 028 90973323 or web: www.qub.ac.uk/edu

NEW for Autumn 2010:
Arthur Miller: a workshop exploring the themes and influences of this major figure in modern drama. Perform selected scenes from The Crucible and Death of a Salesman. Sunday 15th November ’09: Crescent Arts Centre: 2-4p.m. £13/£11