TRR Presents: Acting Workshops with Alice Harding & Zoë Templeman-Young

The Rehearsal Room: Scene Study (run by Alice Harding) & Making The Text Active (run by Zoë Templeman-Young.)

*PLEASE NOTE *

• The space has a strict no heels policy due to the flooring.
• The workshops are for adults over the age of 18.
• The workshops are a safe, professional space for creatives to work. There will be no tolerance of any behaviour that doesn't fit into a healthy, open, focused, supportive way of working.

These new sessions offer a supportive atmosphere for actors to grow as artists in a professional, focused space, offering a unique chance to work with directors one-on-one.

Morning Session (10:30-13:30)

SCENE STUDY : Alice Harding

A rigorous and dynamic workshop with Alice Harding that creates space for participants to immerse themselves in a focused yet relaxed working environment. Too often actors are thrust into high pressure audition scenarios which leave little room for play and growth - if this resonates, then this is the workshop for you. Using a mixture of exercises and creative exploration, we will work on a scene in randomly selected pairs to spark imagination, mine the depths of the text, and refine your technique. Above all, we will train the muscle memory through the act of doing; letting your preparation meet the moment.

What to bring: A choice of scenes will be sent to you roughly one week in advance. Particpants should prepare one scene to bring to the workshop, choosing the character they most identify with. While you are not required the learn sides by heart, the more you know your material the more you'll get out of the session!

What to wear: Clothes you're comfortable to move in.

Alice originally trained as an actor at The BRIT School before becoming a Director and Writer - acting credits included Casualty (BBC) The Investigator (Netflix) and The Thief, His Wife and The Canoe (ITV/Story Films.)

Directing credits include: This Blighted Star (Underbelly George Square/Belgrade Theatre/Omnibus Theatre,) Exit Strategy (Rehearsed Raeading - Southwark Playhouse,) Fortunes of War (Apple TV/101 Films,) American Monster, Caught In The Net and Married To Evil (Discovery,) Lost Frequencies (Bridge Theatre Company,) and her debut film Barton Turf, which received its world premiere at Oxford Shorts Film Festival.

Associate Director credits include: Flicker (Soho Theatre)

Writing credits include: Barton Turf, Give Yourself Away (In Development)

Alice was featured in Rolling Stone magazine for her music video for Everybody’s Saying That by Girl Ray. She was nominated for Best Early Career Director at Oxford Shorts Festival 2024.

Afternoon Session : 14:00-17:00

MAKING TEXT ACTIVE : Zoë Templeman-Young

Do you get stuck in patterns and habits of how you say lines? Find yourself focusing more on how a line should sound than what it’s doing to another character? Want to stretch and train your brain to make every word count? Making Text Active is about acknowledging that words are weapons, and understanding how to use them in the most effective way. In this session we’ll use LABAN, actioning, imaginative circumstances and precise targets to create a real connection around why your character says what they say, and in return, how that affects their inner emotional life. It’s all about putting your attention on who you’re talking to, and finding how freeing that can be.

What to bring: A scene, and a scene partner(s) or a monologue

What to prepare: The text. Bring offers, ideas; your imagination. You don’t need to be fully off book, but it would help. Bring the work, then we can work.

Zoë is currently the Associate Director on Interview at Riverside Studios and will be the Associate Director on the upcoming RSC transfer of Prasanna Puwanarajah's Twelfth Night at the Barbican.

Having trained as an actor at RADA, she has an intimate understanding of an actor's process and a toolkit that is adapted for every actor needs.

She is a published playwright (Take Care), visiting director at RADA, RWCMD, Rose Bruford and Drama Studio and dramaturg with Matthew Bourne's NEW ADVENTURES company. She has worked at theatres that include: Soho, Young Vic, RSC and Kiln.