Drawing on experiences of directing Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk at Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, Kate will cover the pivotal role of the audience, call and response, traditions, casting and approaches to modernisation. This workshop is for early and mid-career directors.
Genre: Outer Limits
Outer Limits – Preparing for Auditions with Limited Time with Alex Thorpe
Alex Thorpe, QTH Co-Creative Director, will lead a practical workshop and Q&A on how you might prepare for an audition when you only have a limited amount of time.
This workshop is for professional actors who are early or mid-career. You will have graduated from a recognised drama school and/or have completed your first professional acting job with a run of at least 11 performances. Equally, you may have an established and current professional acting career.
Outer Limits – Loot Rehearsal Observation
A limited number of spaces are available to observe rehearsals for Loot, Directed by Bethany Pitts.
Additionally, we are providing access to our technical rehearsals for Loot, followed by a Q&A with our producing team.
Early booking is advised as spaces are limited.
Outer Limits – Loot Technical Rehearsal Observation
A limited number of spaces are available to observe rehearsals for Loot, Directed by Bethany Pitts.
Additionally, we are providing access to our technical rehearsals for Loot, followed by a Q&A with our producing team.
Early booking is advised as spaces are limited.
Outer Limits – Writing Plays with Big Lungs with Rebecca Latham
What are the contributing factors at play? How can you as a writer be thinking about your work for those stages and what are we as readers and programmers considering?
This workshop is for mid-career professional playwrights who have already had at least one of their play professionally produced, performed by professional actors for a run of at least 11 performances or more. Or equivalent experience.
Rebecca is the RSC’s New Works Manager. Credits as dramaturg include: For the RSC: Macbeth (Daniel Raggett); Cyrano de Bergerac; Hamlet (Rupert Goold); Edward II (Daniel Raggett); Cowbois; As You Like It (Omar Elerian); First Encounters: Twelfth Night (Robin Belfield) and The Comedy of Errors (Alex Thorpe).
Rebeca oversees research and development on commissions and actively seeks out writers for the RSC to engage with. Previously Rebecca worked at the Almeida Theatre, The Old Vic, and was a Senior Reader at Theatre503.
Outer Limits – Jack and the Beanstalk Technical Rehearsal Observation
A limited number of spaces are available to observe rehearsals for Jack and the Beanstalk Directed by Kate Lovell.
Additionally, we are providing access to our technical rehearsals for Jack and the Beanstalk, followed by a Q&A with our producing team.
Early booking is advised as spaces are limited.
Outer Limits – Jack and the Beanstalk Rehearsal Observation
A limited number of spaces are available to observe rehearsals for Jack and the Beanstalk Directed by Kate Lovell.
Additionally, we are providing access to our technical rehearsals for Jack and the Beanstalk, followed by a Q&A with our producing team.
Early booking is advised as spaces are limited.
Outer Limits – Getting Your Work Programmed with Steven Bowyer
Covering how to approach venues, package and pitch your show and gain an insight into what venue programmers are looking for. There will be an opportunity to analyse tour packs and discuss practical steps for building relationships with venues.
This workshop is aimed at artists/organisations who are looking to further develop and tour their work.
Outer Limits – From Planning to Performance: Touring Theatre Explained with Francesca Clark
Covering budgeting, tour booking, deals and promotion. Francesca will break down each part of the process to give you the best chance of creating a successful UK tour. This session is for early and mid-career producers*. You may already have a project you are working on or are looking to find out more about the process.
*This includes any artists who are producers or professional writers and directors interested in producing and touring their own work.
Francesca has previously held producing roles at Hightide and as an independent producer. She recently produced the QTH and National Theatre’s Theatre Nation Partnerships UK Tour of Handbagged, which completed a 13-week tour.
Outer Limits – Direct Trajectories – Forging a Career in Theatre Directing with Hannah Joss
Hannah will demystify the pathways available to early-career directors; from making your own work, to assisting at major theatres, and not forgetting those pesky talent development schemes somewhere in the middle.
This workshop is for early-career professional directors who will have graduated from a recognised directing course and/or have completed your first professional directing/assistant directing job with a run of at least 11 performances.
Hannah is Associate Director (Literary) at Chichester Festival Theatre. Credits include Choir (CFT), Original Death Rabbit (Jermyn Street Theatre) and Carry on Jaywick (HighTide/Vault Festival). She was Resident Director at National Theatre Studio; Baylis Assistant Director at The Old Vic; Resident Director at the Almeida Theatre and part of the 2020-21 Old Vic 12 cohort. She worked as an assistant director at the National Theatre, Old Vic, Almeida Theatre, Bush Theatre, Bridge Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company.
