'Performance Prompts' is a series of drop in workshops exploring ways of creation for writers, actors, directors, live artists, dancers, choreographers, photographers, singers and anyone with an unrealised creative urge.

Each week a different exercise will help the creative juices flow.

Workshops led by Sean Bruno and Luke Dixon.

February

10th – Creating Monologues workshop

17th – A million ways to tell a story workshop

24th – Characters and their stories

March

10th – Family stories

17th – Perambulatory performances

24th – Voices from history

Luke Dixon is a performance maker, writer, teacher and academic, internationally known for his innovative productions of Shakespeare, his site-specific performances, his teaching of actors and his research into performance. His productions for theatre nomad, of which he was Artistic Director for 20 years, have been seen in China, North America, South Africa, Germany, France, Poland, Russia, Czech and Slovak Republics, Spain and the UK. Luke has a doctorate in 'The Performance of Gender'. Recent work includes A Summer of Ecosex with Annie Sprinkle & Elizabeth Stephens. His book hugely influential, 'Play-Acting', a guide to theatre workshops, is published by Methuen in the UK and by Routledge in the US.

Sean Bruno has a wide range of experience in making, both solo and collaborative, performance work in various contemporary and traditional styles; including dance, spoken word, multimedia and site specific. He has worked in various writing, performance and dramaturgical capacities with performance companies as The National Theatre of Ireland, Theatre Nomad, The International Workshop Festival, Lo Commotion Dance, Teatro Vivo and Sweden’s The Harbour Project.