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Colouring Books

Colouring books have been used widely as education tools, needs wider exploration, across the world during the Black Panthers’ movement ,and certain artist’s have used them to subvert their traditional use for children especially with the type of content.

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Direct Access workshop by JMK Trust-Notes

Written up my notes,will add the part about the task later.

 “The Craft of Theatre Making”

For Theatre

Strategies to work with actors

Try out Ideas either works or it doesn’t

History, justice, memorable

Know your text

Place the character in the context

Simple, clear what is the idea about?

Play

Explore the idea; make it clear, clarity, and originality

Consider

Awards, placements, meet people

Before Meeting Actors

Studio space

One Table

Two chairs

Newspaper

What are Key Images are

It’s important, what you first see

Beginning

What interest you about the story?

Before Rehearsal

Joyful and Productive

Give research to Assistant Director

Casting

Creative

Set and costume design

Sound

FX

Technical

Stage Manager

Production manager

Workshop Auditions

Maybe individually

How do you find your cast?

Stage Director

Agent-description of kind of people

Drama school

Actors

Right, music, Play, text, classic adaptation, translation

Before Rehearsal

1. Allow actor’s questions, research, clarify,

concept and objectives.

Tell Actors how you are going to use your time.

(Give a Schedule)

1st Day

Talk about play

Read play

Read again

If the actors have questions and you can’t answer them.

Assistant Director will answer him the next day.

Exercises to explore text

Invite designers in to rehearsals.

Model Box

Scale model of set, to work out ideas

2 Block it

Week 2

Block it as quickly as you can ( Choreograph movement)

Allow people space to follow impulses.

 Three approaches to working out performances with actors.

• Tell people where to go
• Follow impulses
• Rough outline

Week 3

S**t hits the fan

Must have a sense of where you’ve going finished,where it’s going.

Send them home, as a treat, even through you’ve planned it in.

• Must be got off the book
• Have a run
• Get audience in,to try it out if you can.
• Clarity of story
• Designer popping in

Schedule Costume fitting (if lead actor is going to be unavailable plan around it)

Consider taking Pr photos, for publicity papers, etc.

Week 4

Day off four reflections

Banned biscuits, sugar can play havoc.

Any fruit and water

Paid Monday-Saturday 40hrs

• Full first Run 
• Aim for 3/4 full run throughs.
• Bring on technical rehearsal

When you meet actors give them notes

You’re in charge, with responsibility

Someone has to make decisions,it has to be you in the end.

Be in role as Directors

Calm, quieter (if they block you)

Difficulty –come from private anxiety

Manage a big group of people

Regional trainee Assistant

Doremore warehouse-london

Assistant ITV direcor scheme

Art Council, look at Guardian Theatre-Monday

Stage,

Contracts

Go and see work

New writing remit

http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/

Buy coffee and a conversation

Flat fee 3-5 k most directors 

Assistant Director

Must be loyal to Director stand by them

Better at me at research

Be in a around to learn from them

Quality of work

Regional theatres

Should get paided

 +++++remember to including practical task with drawings