Ever freeze up in a scene? Feel stuck in your head instead of in the moment? This fun and focused half-day workshop is designed for early-to-mid-career actors who want to move from panic to play. Learn how to let go, connect deeply with your scene partner, and feel freer on stage.
Join us for a transformative 3-week acting intensive exploring The Pleasure to Play—a joyful, embodied approach that combines clown, text work, and complicité. This training is ideal for actors, clowns, creatives and performers seeking greater presence, authenticity, and freedom on stage and screen.
Exploring complicité, clown state and intra-cultural training.
An Italian Wedding is a headphone verbatim show exploring the themes of identity and belonging through the lens of an Italian wedding.
Exploring complicité, clown state and intra-cultural training.
heatre is serious game as children play. ”Le Jeu” means ”Game”. It is a very important basic lesson of Philippe Gaulier’s teaching. No game, No theatre.
This sumptuous and sprawling family saga is a stage adaptation of the legendary film-maker Ingmar Bergman’s masterpiece.
A two-week Headphone Verbatim training course, equipping theatre-makers with the tools to create their own work with diverse communities.
Want to find a more playful and spontaneous way to connect to text? Want to learn how to bring more of your authentic self to a story? Want to work in a more intra-cultural and inclusive platform? Then this masterclass is what you have been looking for!
The S Word in partnership with the University of Notre Dame London Global Gateway presents Stanislavsky and Race: Questioning the 'System' in the 21st Century. An international online symposium hosted by the University of Notre Dame London Global Gateway
In this free seminar, Director and Educator Kristine Landon-Smith will unpack her multi-lingual practice, which explores how to bring different nationalities and languages together into the rehearsal room and onto the stage. This practice was developed across 20+ years, firstly as Founder and Artistic Director of Tamasha.
Our work explores the intersection of an intracultural methodology directed by Kristine Landon-Smith and working from a clown state in the work of Fabio Motta. We come together as practitioners who believe in the mantra coined by Philippe Gaulier, the pleasure to play.
An international panel conversation about the diversification of contemporary performer training which builds on the recent publication of a special issue of ‘Against the Canon’ in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training 11:3 (Routledge, 2020).
Want to find a more playful and spontaneous way to connect to text? Want to develop trust to fully support your impulses and find more of your talent? Want to learn how to bring more of your authentic self to a story? Want to work in a more intra-cultural and inclusive platform?
Kristine Landon-Smith and Fabio Motta will take you through a series of games, improvisations, text and clown exercises that will increase an actor’s sensitivity and awareness on how to experience the pleasure to play well.
Decolonisation not just a buzzword- A creative journey that captures urgent and contentious conversations through personal testimonies.
An exciting live online event of performance and stories inspired by personal testimonies of interconnected characters in a fictional family.
Want to find a more playful and spontaneous way to connect to text? Want to learn how to bring more of your authentic self to a story? Want to work in a more intra-cultural and inclusive platform? Then this Masterclass is what you have been looking for!
Join us for an evening of monologues and conversation inspired by stories of ‘touch’ from Bury Park. This special Late Lounge marks the culmination of our Digital Revoluton online creative events season.
Inspired by true events, Moisés Kaufman’s verbatim play confronts the brutal and homophobic murder of Matthew Shepard, which sparked shock and debate in the USA in 1998.
In a smoky New York jazz club, musicians jam whilst they await their next fix. In a collaboration between Royal Birmingham Conservatoire's jazz musicians and Theatre Company, witness a melange of text and jazz improvisations in this site-specific performance; an iconic work breaking both fourth wall and inhibitions.
This unique workshop forensically examines what the actor needs to do in order to ‘play well’ on stage at every moment, whether in scene or monologue, in rehearsal, performance or audition. It will reveal to the actor how to stay present and connected not only with a scene partner but also with the audience. Kristine Landon-Smith and Fabio Motta will take you through a series of games, improvisations, text and clown exercises that will increase an actor’s sensitivity and awareness on how to experience the pleasure to play well on stage.
VanThanh Productions in association with Park Theatre presents the World Premiere of
Curry Kings of Parramatta is a poignant play that deals with South-Asian migration to Australia and the subsequent establishment of a network of Indian-Pakistani restaurants, concentrated in Western Sydney.
Looking for a new way to find more fun and pleasure in your acting work?
Want to make bolder choices and take bigger risks on stage?
Or simply bring more of your authentic self to your role?
Then this is the workshop for you!
A headphone verbatim show capturing campus conversations at SOAS. In association with Bhuchar Boulevard and SOAS
Multi award-winner Kristine Landon Smith directs French dramatist Jean Anouilh’s comedy classic.
A company of 12 actors will perform Daniel Keene’s The Serpent’s Teeth, a play in two acts that explores the ways in which ordinary people struggle on with their lives in the context of conflict and war.
The 16th Street Full Time Program has a reputation for producing generous and courageous acting graduates, and we are proud to continue our decade-strong commitment to developing authentic, reliable and resilient professionals.
Looking for a new way to find more fun and pleasure in your acting work? Want to make bolder choices and take bigger risks on stage? Curious on how to translate your clown, your games, your improvisation to text work in a rehearsal situation ..... this is the workshop for you!
