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On Tuesday the 4th of April the students from the Year 12 and 13 Drama classes had the incredible opportunity of being visited by the Red Leap Theatre Company, a theatre company specifically dedicated to producing their own devised work, who came and gave a workshop on physical theatre to us students. At the moment we are working through an assessment on how to devise your own plays, and so the workshop was immensely helpful for our classes, as we got to work through several different warmups with new acting techniques we hadn’t tried before.
At the start of the workshop we got warmed up, walking around the room to different paces and styles of walking, eventually putting on music and letting us walk, dance, run, skip and crawl around in any way we wanted, deciding whether we’d follow others or do something of our own accord. They also taught us miniature, a style of acting in which you use two fingers to make a little person, expanding your world within the stage and letting you communicate to the audience things the actor would not have been able to do normally onstage, like traveling long distances or climbing mountains. We were then given 5 minutes to come up with a James Bond-style scene, in which the perspective changed from actor to miniature several times. Many groups came up with extremely inventive transitions, actions and expressions. I personally took from this workshop a new sense of inspiration, as they encouraged young performers to be brave performers, generous performers and courageous performers who took opportunities and didn’t hesitate when it came to running with ideas for creation of plays. It was a hugely enjoyable experience that I believe all of our students learned from (as well as giving Mr Dutton some new theatre game ideas!)
Eloise Williams-Mart
Cultural Prefect
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