Peepolykus Education and workshops

Workshop
Peepolykus have led performance workshops/classes for a wide range of participants and organisations over the last nine years. These include:

Workshop

  • Professional and semi professional actors/performers
  • Teachers
  • Schools
  • Drama Colleges
  • Universities
  • Circus training establishments
  • Youth Theatres
  • Youth/Community Centres
  • Learning disability groups
  • Corporate organisations
  • Amateur drama groups

Clients include:

  • Pegasus Youth Theatre, Oxford
  • Deaf Stories Group, Bristol
  • Portway Players, Bristol
  • Circomedia, Centre for Circus Arts & Physical Theatre
  • Circus Space
  • Bristol University Drama Department
  • Swindon Youth Theatre
  • The Mill Arts Centre, Banbury
  • Interaction corporate training

Each workshop is tailored to meet the specific needs/requirements of the group. We have high levels of experience in:

  • Planning and teaching a full term of student work;
  • Working with and directing a group from a workshop level, through to a final show/ presentation/corporate video;
  • Providing high impact workshops ranging from 2 hours – 5 days;
  • Collaborating and skill sharing with other practitioners.

WorkshopOur teaching is inspired by a physical / impulsive approach to theatre, as opposed to a more introspective or intellectual approach. We are keen to stimulate playfulness and lightness in a performer. However, that does not mean that the process and results are always comfortable or un-emotional. Participants learn best, and gain most, when they surprise themselves. We create a supportive and buoyant atmosphere, where people are encouraged to make natural and spontaneous reactions in performance, rather than ‘safe’ or ‘prepared’ ones. It is very often the group dynamic which will determine how far this process goes. The results can be hilarious, impressive, moving and sometimes plain ridiculous. In a nutshell, the workshops are designed to be enjoyable, revealing and funny. A willingness to participate and accept is a more important pre-requisite than a wealth of performing experience.

Our teaching falls into the following categories:

  • Pilates – body conditioning
  • Gentle/strengthening physical warm-up exercises
  • Games to activate physical and mental alertness
  • Clowning
  • Comic timing
  • Chorus work (group activities)
  • Vocal range/projection
  • Non-verbal physical expression
  • Improvisation exercises
  • Mask-work
  • The development of eccentric characters through physical states
  • Devising techniques

The workshops are led by one or sometimes two members of the company. Workshop prices vary. For more information, please email or phone Kim Lawrence, Company Manager on 0117 3670686