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Meisner acting class is back! The class runs every Monday and Wednesday at 18:30 and is open to all who are interested in working on their acting. We had our first class after the summer break last night and it went quite well.
We’re working on monologues this quarter, along with the standard Meisner exercises: What to choose, how to choose it, what to do when you walk into the room, how to rehearse the monologue.
If you’re interested in coming to the class, please call 608 577 012.
August 5th, 2008
Agenda Events is proud to present Ellie Cummins and Colin Broderick in a Writing Workshop
Colin Broderick is a writer from County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. He lived in New York for twenty years where he had his first play ‘Father Who, produced in 2003. Broderick has most recently been published in The New York Times. He is here in Prague with his wife Renata and their dog and cat for the past six months finishing his drinking memoir ‘Orangutan’ which will be published in the US, in the spring of 2009 by Three Rivers Press.
Writer Ellie Cummins’s play The Sacred Sow plays The Rubin Theatre Malastranka May 25th to June 1st. The play has attracted Eileen Pollack, stage and screen actress, in the lead. Ellie has a background as long as your arm in the arts, theatre, touring, short films, music and dance, often radical and challenging. Ellie Cummins has studied theatre, dance, and music and has a BA in English.
How do you access that primal beat? How do you write and get a flow? Where does the spark of inspiration come from? There are very practical ways to get your voice heard.
Check out Colin and Ellie’s workshop and get some answers!
Saturday May 17th 10 am – 4 pm @ Shakespeare & Sons, Krymska 12 – Vrsovice
700 Czech Crowns, students and concessions 300 Czech Crowns
May 2nd, 2008
Guy Roberts, who is the force behind Miloco’s Macbeth and the artistic director of Austin Shakespeare Festival is offering a two day Shakespeare workshop March 28th and 29th. He is also offering a one day stage combat workshop on the 29th.
The 2 day workshop (March 28 / 29) 11am - 2pm is 2000 Kc.
The stage combat class is March 29th from 3pm - 6pm costs 1000 Kc.
If you take both workshops then you get them for 2500 Kc.
Space is limited, so please contact guy@guyroberts.com to book your spot. Prague Playhouse Acting students get a 20% discount.
March 20th, 2008
Dear Actors,
I am teaching a casting workshop in Prague next month, for
actors wishing to develop and improve their casting skills.
I have attached the announcement and given details below.
Best Wishes,
Nancy Bishop
Casting Workshops
for actors and students
American Casting Director, Nancy Bishop, is offering two
casting workshops for actors interested in working in
American and British films. The workshops, taught in
English, will focus on strategies and approaches for film
casting.
CASTING WORKSHOP I: will cover how actors can present
themselves, what directors look for from actors, and how to
tackle dialogue in a casting. Participants will watch and
critique actual castings, and perform a scene from a film
script for camera. Everyone will get one on one coaching
with Nancy.
ADVANCED CASTING WORKSHOP: For returning students there is
the Advanced Workshop. Anyone who has taken Wo rkshop I and
wishes to continue practising scene work for camera may
attend. This class explores scene analysis and performances
in a variety of genres.
Each actor will perform two scenes from different genres
(for example one Sci Fi and one comedic).
Nancy Bishop is a Casting Director in Prague. Over the
past ten years she has cast European-based actors in nearly
fifty American and British films shot in Central Europe,
including Bourne Identity, AnneFrank the Whole Story,
Hitler the Rise of Evil, xXx, Bad Company, and Blade II,
The Illusionist and currently Narnia II.
Cost: 2,000kc (70EU) for one workshop or 3500Kc (125EU)
for both workshops
Time: 12:00 – 18:00
Date: Saturday, 25 Aug, Workshop I
Sunday, 26 Aug, Advanced Workshop
Place: Studio Storm, Biskupsky Dvur 1, Prague 1, Between
Nam. Republiky and Florence Metro stops.
Information: www.nancybishopcasting.com
Please register by sending an e mail to:
workshops@nancybishopcasting.com. Please send your name,
email address and telephone number.
August 13th, 2007
Todd Kramer and Dan Brown are starting up an improv group. Improv has been made famous over the years by groups such at Second City (Bill Murray, John Candy, Gilda Radner) and The Groundlings (Will Ferrell, Phil Hartman, Mike Myers) and set the tone for TV shows like SCTV, Kids in the Hall, Saturday Night Live, Who’s Line is it Anyway?, Mad TV, Curb Your Enthusiasm and many, many more!
Classes are open to anyone who is interested in learning about presentation and performance but you don’t have to be an actor/actress! You only need be 15 years old or older with a good, working-knowledge of English and a desire to learn.
We are NOT looking for people who think they are “funny” but those who have always been keen to try acting or actors who would like to improve their craft by learning one of the greatest of performance arts. Mostly, we invite people who like to have fun!
The first BIIC will be held June the 26th (Tues) from 18:30 to 21:00 at a space near Letna in Prague 7.
For more information and to sign up, contact: improvprague@gmail.com.
Improv Flier
June 19th, 2007
One of our acting students, Michelle Arnold, wrote an article called “Learning to Act in the Czech Republic” which details her experiences as a member of our class. The article gives you a pretty good idea of what to expect when coming to our classes. It is certainly rewarding and challenging. Here’s an excerpt:
It’s a lot of work, 2 classes a week and at least 2 rehearsals a week and coming up with new doors and activities all the time, neither of which are easy, but the training is worth it. The Prague Playhouse wants to build a core group of actors from this class that can be depended on for future productions of plays and films in English, and when that time comes, I want to be part of it.
Way to go, Michelle! Thanks for bringing what we do to a wider audience!
June 6th, 2007
FOR ALL INTERESTED STUDENTS
The Department of Authorship and Pedagogy (Katedra autorsk tvorby a pedagogiky - KATaP DAMU), The Theatre Faculty of the Performing Arts and The Institute for the Research and Study of Authorial Acting (stav pro vzkum a studium autorskho herectv pri KATaP DAMU)
are offering
A UNIQUE COURSE (IN ENGLISH):
“ACTING WITH THE INNER PARTNER”
An original psychosomatic approach to the study of acting & the principles of drama discovered and developed by prof. Ivan Vyskocil (Head of the Institute for the Research and Study of Authorial Acting)
every Tuesday 16.30 - 18.00
starting February 13th, 2007
classroom 313, 3d floor at KATaP DAMU (Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts)
Karlova 26, Praha 1
Course introduction: prof. Ivan Vyskocil
Teaching Assistants: MgA. Jan Nepomuk Piskac, Irena Pulicarov and Co.
YOU ARE WELCOME!
Please contact Jan N. Piskac at 721 385 186 or jan.nepomuk@post.cz for more information or to register.
February 12th, 2007
The Prague Playhouse acting classes are taking on a new life. Moving to Mondays and Wednesdays, the class is going to start looking much more like a rehearsal with scene work and working towards producing a play. We are interested in getting a core group of people together who will rehearse and study. The core group will encourage others to participate. The classes will still be in Czech and in English, but if there is a great response we might move to separate classes for people who aren’t bi-lingual.
Anyone who’s interested should give send me an sms to 608 577 012.
January 3rd, 2007
For those of you who haven’t taken Nancy Bishop’s workshop yet, you might want to check it out. Nancy Bishop is a very experienced casting director who has been doing her workshop all over Europe and in New York. This one will be November 4th and 5th. For details, click Nancy writes:
Casting Workshop &
Advanced Casting Workshop
American Casting Director, Nancy Bishop teaches on-camera casting workshops in Prague for all levels. After the success of her workshops in London, Manchester, Berlin, Hamburg, Glasgow, and Edinburgh, Nancy offers more casting workshops and a new advanced workshop for returning students. Workshops are taught in English
Casting workshop I focuses on strategies and methods for the film casting. Actors critique actual video-taped castings, and participate in a mock casting process using film scripts. Each participant will have an opportunity to work one-on-one in front of the camera with Nancy.
Advanced Casting Workshop is for students who have completed Workshop I and wish to study scene work in more depth. The workshop explores film acting techniques through a set of on camera exercises. Each participant will perform two scenes from diverse genres (for example one Sci-Fi and one comedy) for camera with coaching from Nancy.
Emmy-award nominated, American Casting Director, Nancy Bishop, has cast over forty American and British films, from her base in Prague. She has cast for major feature films including Roman Polanskis Oliver Twist, Van Helsing, Alien Vs. Predator, Hellboy, xXx, Bourne Identity, and she is currently working on the thriller Psych 9. She has also cast TV series such as Zhivago, Charles II, Anne Frank, the Whole Story, and Hitler, the Rise of Evil. Nancy has intermittently been teaching casting workshops throughout Central Europe, in New York City and at the American National Theatre Institute. This is a unique opportunity for actors to learn valuable strategies for film castings, as well as to make connections for Central European based work on American and British films.
Time: 11:00AM 5:00PM
Date: Saturday 4 Nov, 2006. Casting Workshop I
Sunday, 5 Nov, 2006. Advanced Casting Workshop II
Place: Storm Bohemia, Biskupsky Dvur 4, Prague 1
Cost in Cz: 2,000k, or 1500kc for students. Cost for both workshops: 3500kc or 3000kc for students.
Cost in EU: 70, or 53 for students, . Cost for both workshops: 123 or 106 for students.
How to register: The class is limited to 12 participants so please register soon. Please send your resume to application@nancybishopcasting.com. Upon acceptance, you will receive payment instructions to reserve your place.
For further information please consult www.nancybishopcasting.com.
October 18th, 2006
o nas
Kurzy herectvi v Prague Playhouse jsou urceny dospelym, kteri chteji vazne pracovat na svem hereckem umeni. Pro prazske herce - Cechy i cizince - neni dostatek prilezitosti ke kontinualnimu a produktivnimu rozvoji. Krome pulminutovych konkurzu do reklam zde aktivni herci nemaji prostor pro dalsi tribeni svych schopnosti.
Skola Prague Playhouse se snazi tuto mezeru zaplnit. Vyucujeme prostrednictvim metody Sanforda Meisnera, clena souboru Group Theater, jednoho z nejvlivnejsich inovatoru v oblasti vyuky herectvi. Nase metoda se odviji od stylu vyuky The Playhouse West School in Los Angeles. Kurzy za prijatelne ceny probihaji kazdy tyden.
detaily
- Pondeli a streda v 18:30
- Kurzy vetsinou probihaji v Milady Horakove 39, Praha 7, na Kamenicke.
- Prostor je tesky najit. Zavolejte, prosim pro vice informanci.
- CAS A MISTO KONANI KURZU MUZE BYT ZMENEN!
KONTAKTUJTE NAS NA 608 577 012 ABYSTE BYLI ZARAZENI NA SMS LIST
- Vyzadujeme aktivni zkouseni mimo vyucovaci hodiny.
- Registrovat se nebo ziskat vice informaci muzete na cisle 608 577 012
ucitel
Brian Caspe pochazi z Kalifornie, kde studoval hudbu na Kalifornske univerzite v San Diegu. Jiz na univerzite se ucinkoval v mnoha produkcich divadelni katedry a navstevoval hodiny herectvi. Po ukonceni studia se Brian prestehoval do Los Angeles, aby se stal profesionalnim hercem. V LA studoval herectvi ve skole Playhouse West >, kde se seznamil s Meisnerovou metodou.
Od jara 2001 zije Brian v Praze, kde zivi jako filmovy herec (Hellboy, Illusionista, Mlady Hannibal, atd (IMDB)) a prilezitostnou praci v reklamach (vice nez 30 v posledni 4 roky). V dubnu 2003 zacal vyucovat Meisnerovu metodu, zprvu aby ziskal schopne “sparring partnery” pro vlastni pripravu. Diky zajmu studentu se vsak hodiny herectvi staly pravidelne a otevrene vsem zajemcum.
Se svym zapisem proto nevahejte, samotne kamerove zkousky v ramci konkurzu vam nepomohou se zlepsit. Brian vam nabizi originalni recept, jak uspet.
September 3rd, 2006
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