Pilot project for youth and development 2009.

Body, Voice, Imagination and Text
Course led by Joe Devlin

Do you want to learn how to develop your body, voice and imagination to create a major role from the inside out?

Do you want to learn how to bring truth, belief and presence into your performance work?

Do you want to bring discipline, strength, stamina and robustness to your work on stage?

Focus Theatre run weekly courses designed to help the actor develop skills at an imaginative and practical level and to work with play scripts from Shakespeare to contemporary performance.

The class will draw on a wide range of techniques including improvisation, classical voice training and the most up to date movement techniques to help actors develop a choreographic awareness needed for live performance and working in ensembles.

Booking: Focus Theatre Office, 12 Fade Street, Dublin 2.
On 01 671 2417 or email CVs info@focustheatre.ie

Weekly Classes - Sundays at Focus Theatre 6a Pembroke Place Dublin (off Pembroke Street).

Prices: €350 0r €250 (Concession) for 10 classes.
Limited places- book early to avoid disappointment.
Website: www.focustheatre.ie

Intro to Comedic Acting
2 day master-class
Course led by John Dawson

What is funny and why do some people seem so natural at being so?

In this master-class performers will study the structure of the verbal joke and the physical gag, irony, satire, absurdity, various comic relationships as well as classic performers and why they were successful. How an actor knows what will work and create a humorous effect in a given situation lies in the development of an intuitive sixth sense about the nature of comedy and why an audience responds in a certain way. Through game playing and exercises performers will begin to understand and develop their natural comic presence and timing, enabling them to create memorable comedic characters.

Focus Theatre
Sat Oct 17th to Oct 18th / 10am to 5pm
6a Pembroke Place ( off pembroke st), Dublin 2
Fee €90
Booking: 01 671 2417

Creative Writing for the Stage
10 weekly classes
Course led by Brian Mc Avera

Do you want to learn how to develop your creativity and write drama?.

Why not join Focus Theatre’s new writing workshop. This will be a practical course in 10 weekly sessions, each lasting three and a half hour’s. In every class there will be methods of kick-starting work; specific exercises, both individually and in pairs, or as part of a group, designed to address specific areas, dialogue, paralanguage, structure; and group discussion and analysis.

Focus Theatre Office 12a Fade Street Dublin 2
Fee: €350 / €250 concession
Booking: 01 671 2417
www.info@focustheatre.ie