Author: Julian Bond

This Wednesday, 20th July we will be concluding our work on ensemble acting, the modern 21st century chorus combined with main character acting by acting out an in-house ‘mini-script’ on the subject of the Paris Commune. The Casa, Hope Street, Liverpool, 7pm, £3/£2 All welcome, beginner or experienced. The Paris Commune – The Paris Commune… Continue reading Burjesta Theatre Workshop – The Paris Commune – Wed 20th July

Actor-Character-Chorus – we continue with our development of ‘ensemble’ actors and the relationship between principal characters and a modernised Greek Chorus. The Casa, Hope Street, Liverpool, 7pm, £3/£2 – All welcome, beginner or experienced. Regards Burjesta

Burjesta Theatre Workshop – this Wednesday, 29th June, 7pm ‘the Crowd in the Individual’ – we continue our look at group dynamics, ensemble acting and individual characterisation with a mixture of prepared and devised work. The Casa, Hope Street, Liverpool, £3/£2 – all welcome beginner or experienced Regards Burjesta

Burjesta Theatre Workshop – The Individual in the Crowd – Wed 22nd, June @ The Casa, 7pm, £3/£2 This week we continue with our look at ensemble acting by way of the relationship of the individual character within the crowd and how drama can be located in this relationship. All welcome beginner or experienced. Regards… Continue reading Burjesta Workshop – 22nd June – The Individual in the Crowd

We’ll be looking at Chekhov’s first full length play, Ivanov, set at the turn of the 20th century in Russia amidst the land-owners and bourgeoisie class in a condition of moral torpor. Chekhov’s writing allows for up to a dozen actors to work on a scene together, all done with great skill, something of a… Continue reading Burjesta Theatre Workshop – Ensemble Acting & Chekhov – Wed 15th June

Irish Theatre presents ‘An Evening with George Bernard Shaw’ The Casa, Hope Street, Liverpool – Saturday 18th, June, 8pm, Tickets £8, reserve on 07981 851 554 or pay on the door Playwright, orator, iconoclast, novelist, critic, essayist, politician, energetic self-publicist, controvertialist – GBS, as he styled himself, divides opinion today as he did in his… Continue reading Irish Theatre presents ‘An Evening with George Bernard Shaw’ @ The Casa, Sat 18th June

Burjesta Theatre Workshop – A Liverpool Chorus This Wednesday 7pm @ The Casa, Hope Street, Liverpool We’ll be looking at how a ‘Liverpool Chorus’ could function dramatically in the 21st century, 2 1/2 thousand years after its cultivation.   All welcome, experienced or beginner, no prior knowledge required £3/£2 Regards Burjesta

We continue our review of the Greek Chorus with a look at a couple of choral pieces from Aeschylus’ unequalled ‘primeval’ drama – The Orestia, as well as some ecstatic urgings from Euripides’ The Bacchae and a comic piece from Sophocles’ ‘The Searching Satyrs’. The Casa, Hope Street, Liverpool, 7pm, £3/£2 No prior knowledge of… Continue reading Burjesta Theatre Workshop – Wed 25th May – Greek Chorus (2)

In this weeks workshop, as part of a series looking at ensemble acting, we look at the Greek Chorus, surely the most dynamic (and underused) force in Western Theatre. We’ll be looking at choral extracts from Aristophanes’ comedy ‘Festival Time’, Sophocles’ masterly tale ‘Oedipus Rex’ and Euripides’ tale of war ‘The Suppliant Women’. The Casa,… Continue reading Burjesta Theatre Workshop – Wednesday 18th May – Greek Chorus

Burjesta Theatre Workshops – Workshops start up again this Wednesday 11th May @ The Casa, Hope Street, Liverpool, 7pm – £3/£2 A new series of workshops looking at collective acting and the relationship between the individual and the crowd (both as actors and as characters). Along the way we’ll be revisiting the great dynamic force… Continue reading Workshop – 11th May