June Workshops
​Technique Workshop
7pm -9.30pm  -  Workshop exploring different processes, styles anything that lends itself to developing pieces. 
This will be decided in advance. If you are interested in running a workshop please contact [email protected]

Dramaturgical Workshop
7pm-9.30pm  -  Showing of work and feedback
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If you wish to share some work, have a script read or discuss an idea please email [email protected] at least a week beforehand with approximate length of time needed.

Week 1 - 2nd June 
Facilitator - Dominik Domresonski
Technique/ style - Working as an Ensemble
Theme - Ensemble
​Title - Working as an Ensemble II

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This workshop will focus on  the basic principles working as an ensemble that should be useful to actors and writers alike when approaching a script or working on a group theatre project

Week 2 - 9th June
Facilitator - Lesley-Ann Reilly
Technique - Street Theatre
Theme - Street Theatre
Title - Street Theatre

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 Street theatre is arguably the oldest form of theatre in existence: most mainstream entertainment mediums can be traced back to origins in street performing. This workshop will explore this art form.

Week 3 - 16th June
Facilitator - Conall Mc Corry
Technique - Forum Theatre
Theme - Social Issue
Title - Forum Theatre

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​​This workshop will explore Forum theatre using a pertinent social issue and developing a performance around it.
Forum theatre is a type of theatre created by the innovative and influential practitioner Augusto Boal as part of what he calls his "Theatre of the Oppressed." Boal created Forum theatre as a forum for teaching people how to change their world. While practicing earlier in his career, Boal would apply 'simultaneous dramaturgy'. In this process the actors or audience members could stop a performance, often a short scene in which a character was being oppressed in some way. The audience would suggest different actions for the actors to carry out on-stage in an attempt to change the outcome of what they were seeing. This was an attempt to undo the traditional actor partition and bring audience members into the performance, to have an input into the dramatic action they were watching. Eventually this 'simultaneous dramaturgy' became Forum theatre when audience members were asked not just to suggest different actions, but to come on stage and perform their own interventions.Avante Garde is a movement within theatre that rejects the bourgeoisie notion of passive audience and aspires to connect the audience with the actors and the piece and create a real experience. We will look at some of the key practitioners of the movement.

Week 4 - 23rd June 
Facilitator - Daniel O'Brien
Technique - Augusto Boal
Theme - Theatre of the Oppressed
​Title - Theatre of the Oppressed

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The Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) describes theatrical forms that the Brazilian theatre practitioner Augusto Boal first elaborated in the 1960s, initially in Brazil and later in Europe. Boal was influenced by the work of the educator and theorist Paulo Freire. Boal's techniques use theatre as means of promoting social and political change. In the Theatre of the Oppressed, the audience becomes active, such that as "spect-actors" they explore, show, analyse and transform the reality in which they are living.

Week 5 - 30th June
Facilitator - Grainne Curistan
Technique/ style - Dramaturgy
Theme - Sharing of New Work
​Title - Dramaturgical Workshop

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At Large is dedicated to providing a forum for the development and production of new work. As part of our weekly workshop series the last workshop of every month will be dedicated to the sharing of new pieces. Everyone at the workshop gets involved from reading a part to taking a look at the piece from different perspectives such as director, actor, audience member and asks the writer questions from that particular point of view. This can be quite dynamic and can involve the use of various activities for example placing the actors in the appropriate positions of stage and giving actors pieces of dialogue to improvise around to help the writer make it more realistic. the group is open to any other ideas that might help a playwright tell their story.