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A space for emerging directors and actors to develop and grow together.
What is The Directors' Playground?
We are an organisation dedicated to giving young directors and actors the time and space in which to develop themselves and their art on a regular basis. We know that it can be increasingly difficult to find the opportunity to play and develop one's craft after leaving education, so we have set up a series of different opportunities to help emerging theatremakers keep growing:
Our Playground Terms allow young and emerging directors free-reign to work on whatever they want to be producing or experimenting over 7- weeks, including a skill-sharing workshop with a visiting director. In turn, actors get to work with these emerging directors, gain experience rehearsing and collaborating with other performers and building a tight-knit community of theatremakers in london.
Our Weekend Workshops allow directors and actors to work more closely with a professional director over two days. These workshops will focus on developing skills and techniques by focusing on scene study and end with a filmed showing, self-tapes and feedback from the visiting director.
Our Toolbox Workshop is a series of 5 workshops from a variety of different practitioners. We believe the best way for theatremakers and performers to learn and improve their practise is to develop a broad "toolbox" of techniques and perspectives on theatremaking. Our first toolbox workshop will have five expert practitioners teaching about: Clowning, Stage Combat, Puppetry, Six-Viewpoints Method, and Movement.
Testimonials
"The Directors Playground was incredibly useful, fun and a brilliant opportunity for me to use a space and the same performers towards exploring an idea I had with the freedom to explore and play fully within the creative journey of that idea. It gave me so much freedom, valuable time with performers in a space. All of which is so incredibly hard to arrange/find and produce sometimes in London."
- Sean Croft, Director
"The Directors' Playground is a crucial space for theatremakers and performers to come together and explore their creativity in a fun, welcoming space with great people."
- Maya Bryant, Director
"Working with the Directors Playground has been a pleasure. It's a space to work with multiple different styles of directors and actors over a long period including a workshop with a professional theatre director. These sessions were so useful for networking and expanding skills with other likeminded people with a range of abilities was wonderful."
- Edward Godfrey, Actor
