This week’s Tuesday Night Workshop video is brought to us by the fantastic Dave McGowan.
Tonight Dave will be discussing Creativity and Inspiration.
Enjoy NDCx
Online Workshop – 12 May 2020
ONLINE WORKSHOP – 5 MAY 2020
Good evening all,
Hope all is well with your good selves! For our Online Workshop this week Louise has some excellent and helpful tips for preparing and rehearsing Monologues.
It’s only fitting as No Drama will be hosting their next live online monologue night – Bring Your Own From Home – on Monday 18th May.
Online Workshop – 28 April 2020
Happy Tuesday y’all!
This week we will be looking at adding a voice to the characters you have been working on since the quarantine began!
Join Johnny in the video below for a great writing exercise in getting a firm grasp of a character’s vocal cords quickly!
Stay safe and keep the chin up.
NDC xxx
Online Workshop – 21 April 2020
Hi there,
This week’s No Drama at Home workshop features our own Kate Cosgrave and looks at ways for an actor to find something different in a text.
Can’t wait to see your submissions.
NDCx
Online Workshop – 14 April 2020
From Quarantine to Character.
In tonight’s online No Drama workshop we will be working on character development.
Facilitator Renée van de Schoor is looking forward to meeting your characters and talk about your process in a Zoom meeting tonight. This link will be active today (14th April 2020) from 20:00 – 20:30 only.
Please see No Drama After Dark for further details.
NDC x
Online Workshop – 7 April 2020
Happy Tuesday folks!
It’s 7 pm so that means workshop time.
Elaine has put together a little exercise called No Drama goes walking, it’s a nice little task for you to do on a walk and is related to character building and Character research.
3 videos will be posted as Louise will be introducing the piece and has a little message at the end.
So enjoy and keep yourselves engaged.
NDC x
Online Workshop – 31 March 2020
It’s 7pm, Tuesday night folks, and if you can’t come to the workshop the workshop shall come to you!
Louise has put together a little video workshop on stage movement and the use of gesture!
This is the first of many video tutorials by different facilitators and the No Drama Committee are working hard to bring you innovative and creative mediums to have fun with – if anyone has any creative ideas and think they’d work well as always please feel free to drop us a line to discuss and feel free to advise us with feedback on tonight’s workshop
Stay safe peeps.
Bring Your Own From Home
Hello…o…o…
Is there anyone out there…er…er…
Yes. There is. it’s us! Hi!
While your voice may echo the empty Dublin streets as you self-isolate, No Drama is here to make sure they don’t disappear into the ether.
We invite you to send us on a recording (preferably mp4 format!) of performance you’re working on, to contact@nodramatheatre.com by Tuesday 24th March at 21:00
We’ll then compile and upload to our social platform for your peers to enjoy, if you want!
Standard BYO fare: monologue, poetry, a bit of singing or movement. No need for polished or off-book submissions! Your imagination is the limit! We advise we do not want you not to break any of the current gov health guidelines in pursuit of this challenge.
Love from ND HQ x
COVID-19 Safety Measures
Good morning all,
This post is with regard to measures for safeguarding No Drama members. The committee have undertaken the following steps and commitments to safeguard our members.
1. Before a workshop, all door handles, posts, bathroom surfaces and surfaces in the meeting room and workshop room will be cleaned down with sterilizing solution.
2. This process is repeated after the workshop closes.
3. All members are required to wash their hands thoroughly upon entry to the school. Antibacterial wash is available in both bathrooms. This is stored in our press during the week and the school members or other groups using the school have no access to our cleaning products.
4. Money handling to be conducted with disposable gloves.
5. Greetings to be verbal rather than handshakes and hugs, a wave or air kiss is encouraged. Non-tactile warm-up exercises to be deployed by facilitators. Workshop scene work to be non-tactile.
6. Please ensure, as a member, if you cough or sneeze that you do so into a tissue that is disposed of properly. please provide your own tissues, we will en devour to have tissue available also.
7. If you, a member, have a low immune system, an underlying health complaint, are in close contact with an elderly person or person of underlying health concerns or young children please consider them and yourselves before you make the decision to attend a workshop.
No Drama is a voluntary society, we would ask that everyone practices good informed choices whilst attending the workshops. We will continue to operate our weekly workshops but as outlined in the points above, if a time comes where we are required and requested to suspend the weekly workshop we shall do so in accordance to health authority specifications.
As a group, we are committed to our duty of care of all our members and will enforce the above points strictly. If you feel unwell we would ask that you exercise the appropriate caution and not attend the workshops.
Kind Regards and the best of health to you all,
Louise and the No Drama Committee.
Workshop – 10 March 2020
The theatre maker’s inspiration.
Directing for theatre on location, or site-specific theatre.
“Site-specific theatre is any type of theatrical production designed to be performed at a unique, specially adapted location other than a standard theatre.”
In tomorrow’s workshop, we will be researching and examining space as a source of inspiration for site-specific theatre. You will be invited to research the qualities and possibilities of a non-traditional stage and will be encouraged to create pieces inspired by the location.
Renée van de Schoor is a graduate from the University of the Arts Utrecht, with a bachelor’s degree in Theatre and Education and currently working for the prestigious Abbey Theatre.
Before joining No Drama Theatre, Renée has been active as an actor, director and assistant director, and has appeared in over 20 productions since 2007.
She has been extensively involved in No Drama Theatre, since joining in 2015, and has been director, actor, producer, production- and stage manager for numerous productions. After directing a sell-out production of ‘And Then There Were None’, she produced ‘Closer’. Furthermore, she appeared as Woman in ‘The Virtuous Burglar’, Lilly and Lilith in ‘She Kills Monsters’ and in performance piece ‘Heed, to the Mound’ as part of Fringe Festival Dublin. Renée was production manager of ‘The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance’ and directed ‘Haven’ as part of Scene + Heard Festival 2019.
Most recently, she directed ‘Mistaken’ as part of Short + Sweet Festival Dublin and was nominated for a price in the category ‘Best Director’.
Doors 6.45pm | Workshop 7pm
€10 per workshop | €25 for the month
If it’s your first ever No Drama workshop you can attend for free!!