Places in workshops are limited
so avoid disappointment and enrol today!
Enrol now by contacting CYT on 6248 5057
[email protected] www.cytc.net
Kerfuffle!
Age: 7-9 years
Tutor: Catherine Roach
What:
A fun workshop for little actors to take a storybook and transform it from the Page to the Stage!
Participants will develop their performance skills through playing drama games and exercises.They will focus on creating great Aussie characters and exploring the art of storytelling as they bring to life Muldoon & Rudd’s Jasper & Abbey and the Great Australia Day Kerfuffle*.
This workshopwill conclude with a short performance for family & friends.
* published by Allen & Unwin
Where: C Block Theatre, Gorman House Arts Centre, Braddon
When: Mondays 4.30pm-6pm
Cost: $270 / participant plus CYT membership(sibling / friend discount available)
Make It Up!
Age: 7-9 years
Tutor: Catherine Jean-Krista
What:
Participants will play drama games and engage their imaginations by improvising characters and stories. Favourite children’s characters and stories will be explored as participants develop their acting, voice and movement skills, using their personal favourites as inspiration forthe creation of their own fantastic characters and exciting tales.
This workshop will conclude with a short performance for family & friends.
Where: C Block Theatre, Gorman House Arts Centre, Braddon
When: Wednesdays 4.30pm-6.00pm
Cost: $270 / participant plus CYT membership (sibling/ friend discount available)
Follow Your Nose!
Age: 10-12 years
Tutor: K-M Gronow
What:
Participants will gain in-depth insight into character development, voice, movement and interactive performance as they explore the world of red-nose and contemporary clowning. Using their red noses as their guides, participants will explore relationships between people, places and objects, and improvise their way to a group-devised original clowning performance. Laughs are guaranteed as exaggerated characters and wondrous discoveries collide in a world where anything is possible.
This workshopwill conclude with a short performance for family & friends.
Where: C-Block Theatre, Gorman House Arts Centre, Braddon
When: Tuesdays 4.30pm-6.30pm
Cost: $270 / participant plus CYT membership (sibling / friend discount available)
Mystery & Mayhem
Age: 10-12 years
Tutor: Hadley
What:
Meet the Poncenbys: the world’s most dysfunctional and unlikeable family. Trouble is brewing as they plot and plan for their long-awaited family reunion. People are disappearing! Strange events are taking place! Alarming odours are permeating the floorboards! Participants will develop their performance skills as they create an original theatre performance filled with mystery, mayhem, and all round tomfoolery.
This workshopwill conclude with a short performance for family & friends.
Where: Bogong Theatre, Gorman House Arts Centre, Braddon
When: Wednesdays 4.30pm-6.30pm
Cost: $270 / participant plus CYT membership (sibling / friend discount available)
CYT Drama @ Belconnen Arts Centre
Canberra Youth Theatre is now conducting fun drama workshops at the Belconnen Arts Centre for ages 7-12.
Little Actors
Ages: 7-9 years
Tutor: Catherine Jean-Krista
This is a fun workshop for little actors who want to explore the magic of drama. Participants will actively engage their imaginations through playing drama games and exercises. Over fifteen weeks participants will learn about focus, given circumstances, space, time, voice, movement and improvisation as they create characters and explore the art of storytelling.
Please Note: There is no performance outcome for this workshop; the focus is on building skills and confidence.
Where: Belconnen Arts Centre, Belconnen
When: Thursdays 4.30pm-6.00pm
Cost: $270 / participant plus CYT membership (sibling / friend discount available)
Storm in a Teacup!
Ages: 10-12 years
Tutor: Cathy Petocz
What:
Participants will develop their acting and stagecraft knowledge through drama games and exercises that focus on building fundamental theatrical skills. This fun workshop will include brainstorming and story creation as each week the participants join forces to devise an original performance that takes a quirky look at the world and our place in it.
This workshopwill conclude with a short performance for family & friends.
Where: Belconnen Arts Centre, Belconnen
When: Wednesdays 4.30pm-6.30pm
Cost: $270 / participant plus CYT membership (sibling / friend discount available)
Impro Militia!
Age: 13-16 years
Tutors: Cathy Hagarty
What:
Your country needs you! Join the Impro Militia – an improvised army of rag tag comic soldiers who are drawn together to save the environment! The Impro Militia will develop their acting skills and draw on a broad selection of dynamic improvisation exercises to devise an improvised show for public performance. Utilizing only found objects which are readily available, the Impro Militia will go on aperilous journey to solve the world’s environmental crisis and rescue the planet with the help of suggestions and objects from the audience!
This workshop will conclude with an evening public performance in C-Block on Tuesday 9th November @7:30pm – all welcome!
Where: Bogong Theatre, Gorman House Arts Centre, Braddon
When: Tuesdays 4.30pm-6.30pm
Cost: $270 / participant plus CYT membership(sibling / friend discount available)
ShakespeareShowdown
Age: 13-16 years
Tutors: Jodhi Doyle
What:
Participants will explore Shakespeare’s characters and the language, relationships and interplay that make them memorable. Heroes and villains will face off in a showdown as the fools cause chaos from the sidelines. This workshop will break through the language barrier as the rhythm, purpose and longevity of Shakespeare’s language is analysed using First Folio texts. Participants will improve their acting skills through in-depth exploration of voice and character development.
This workshopwill conclude with a short performance for family & friends.
Where: Bogong Theatre, Gorman House Arts Centre, Braddon
When: Mondays 4.30pm-6.30pm
Cost: $270 / participant plus CYT membership (sibling / friend discount available)
Acting For Camera
Age: 14-25
Tutor: Andrea Close
What:
Lights! Camera! Action! Acting for the Camera requires a very special skill set, different to the needs of the stage actor.In this practical workshop, the participants will develop specific techniques for working in film and television – from hitting your mark to camera techniques and etiquette of the film set. Participants will also gain exposure to TV Presenting and will create a short show reel of scenes and presenting work.
This workshop will conclude with a gala screening of film / television scenes shot throughout the duration of the course.
Where: C-Block Theatre, Gorman House Arts Centre, Braddon
When: Thursdays 4:30 – 7:30pm (3 hour classes)**
Cost: $270 / participant plus CYT membership(sibling / friend discount available)
** Acting forCamera commences on Thurs 9th September
Back StageMadness: (Lighting, Sound, Stage Management)
Age: 14-25
Tutor: CYT’s Production Manager
What:
Are you fascinated with Theatre but not so keen to bein the spotlight? Back Stage Madness is a practical workshop exploring what makes a production actually tick. Through an exploration of Lighting, Sound and Stage Management, participants will learn how to run a theatrical production, design, rig and focus lights, set-up and run sound equipment, create digitalsound scapes and stage management – creating the prompt book and calling the cues for a show.
Participants will learn these skills and apply them to the Major CYT Production – RETRIEVAL. You will become a member of theBackstage Team and run the show at the National Library of Australia in November
Where: C Block Theatre, Gorman House Arts Centre, Braddon
When: Saturdays 9am-11am **
& Sundays10am-5pm on 25 July, 22August, 19 September, 24 October
** Back StageMadness commences on Saturday 24 July
Tech &Dress Rehearsals 11 – 14 November (5 – 9pm)
Performances 19-21 November, 26- 28 November & 3-5 December
Cost: $270 / participant plus CYT membership (sibling / friend discount available)
SPECIALPROJECT: Writers Unite!
Age: 14-25
Tutors: K-M Gronow & Karla Conway
SpecialGuest Tutors:Jane Bodie (Head of Playwriting, NIDA), Angela Betzien (Playwright – Hoods, Children of the Black Skirt) & Peter Matheson (Australia’sDramaturg)
What:
Write your own short play and then have it performed in 2011!
Embark on a long distance scriptwriting journey with the young writers from other youth theatres across the country. Young playwrights will write short plays based on a chosen theme and in 2011 the youth theatre companies will perform their own and each others work. If your play is chosen by another youth theatre you may have the chance to travel to see your play performed!
Here at CYT you will be guided through the process of writing a short play fromidea to final draft. You will also have the opportunity to work with the Head of Playwriting at NIDA, Jane Bodie, for an intensive workshop on your play idea, with Peter Matheson on structure and form of your writing and finally, share an amazing weekend intensive with award winning playwright Angela Betzien on working with actors and working through the re-writes! An amazing opportunity to work with some of Australia’sbest!
This workshop will conclude with a script reading of completed works.
Where: CYT Resource Room, Gorman House Arts Centre, Braddon
When:Wednesdays 5pm – 7pm
Cost:$270 /participant plus CYT membership (sibling and friend discount available)
SPECIALPROJECT: The Quilt @ National Museum of Australia
Age: 16-25
Tutors: Peter Wilkins and Camilla Blunden
What:
In 1946, Ukrainian woman, Olga Basylewycz created a handmade quilt featuring Little Red Riding Hood, whilst living in a displaced persons camp in southern Germany postworld war II. This quilt, which can be interpreted as a vivid allegory of Nazism, became an innocent wall decoration at a Melbourne kindergarten, before being donated to the National Museum through the Museum’s migrant heritage program.
Participants will view this historical artefact and devise a Museum Theatre piece inspired by the detailed depictions of Red Riding Hood and the wolf as an allegory for Nazi Germany. The performance will be included as a part of the Museum Theatre Festival from 3 – 6 November.
This workshop will conclude with a performance at the National Museum of Australia.
Where: C-Block Theatre, Gorman House Arts Centre, Braddon
When: Mondays 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Cost:$270 /participant plus CYT membership (sibling and friend discount available)
PLEASE NOTE: If you have participated in a Semester 1 workshop, then the membership does not need to be paid again. If you have not participated in a Semester 1 workshop, membership is $20 / participant.
Places in workshops are limited
so avoid disappointment and enrol today!
Enrol now by contacting CYT on 6248 5057
[email protected] www.cytc.net
