Performance!
20 – 23 August 2008

The Performance course is ideal for people to express their creativity, it will encourage mutual bonding and role-playing, enable individuals to achieve something extraordinary and create personal self-awareness. This is an ideal way to bring out the best in everyone, overcome shyness and introversion and channel the talents and gifts of the extrovert in a positive and dynamic way. It will help reveal the potential of each and every participant perhaps even discovering hidden and unique talents that even they didn't know they had!

This course could be the first step in helping your achieve your fifteen minutes of fame. The course will include a workshop of how to present on television.

Charges
Tuition, meals and accommodation: Standard bedroom £172.00
En-suite bedroom £192.00 
Tuition non residential Excluding meals £88.00
Dinner £12.85
Lunch £8.50

Actor's Workshop

This can be adapted for a day or weekend. There is a choice of straight play – William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream or Victorian Melodrama or Pantomime; a musical play, this can be choice from any of the great musicals ranging from The King and I to Hello Dolly! or a work chosen by the participants.

The sessions will be divided thus:

Reading of the play
Discussion of the characters
Auditions (each individual will be allowed to audition for as many roles as they wish)
Casting and Understudies
Blocking
Rehearsing
Dress Rehearsal (if over a weekend)
Gala Performance (with scripts)
Critique

The Actor's Course is ideal for people to express their creativity, it will encourage mutual bonding and role-playing, enable individuals to achieve something extraordinary and create personal self-awareness. This is an ideal way to bring out the best in everyone, overcome shyness and introversion and channel the talents and gifts of the extrovert in a positive and dynamic way. It will help reveal the potential of each and every participant perhaps even discovering hidden and unique talents that even they didn't know they had!

Russell's Performance Background

Russell Grant's background is unashamedly thespian! He began treading the boards from age 5 before spending weekends at the local school of dance and drama in Middlesex. His first television performances were made in his early teens playing a young Welsh lad in a BBC Play for Today in the swinging 60s.

His first professional theatre role was at the New Theatre Cardiff and from there on a highly successful career burgeoned all of his performances can be found on www.russellgrantshow.com

With diplomas and qualifications from various theatrical competitions and academies, reaching medal class at LAMDA, Russell is well qualified to direct, produce and perform having reached 40 years of doing the same not just in theatre but television and radio too. His notable successes being the BAFTA nominated Postcards series and writing and presenting the Life and Times of Ivor Novello, Rodgers and Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein and Cole Porter for BBC Radio Wales and Radio 2. His first one act play was premiered at London 's Olympia .

He has only recently gone back to performance having won rave reviews (to be seen on the website) in his portrayal of a Valley's boy in Paul Doust's Evening Standard award-winning play – Probably Wanstead – at the prestigious Brighton Festival followed by appearing Alan Ayckbourne's own theatre the Stephen Joseph, playing a dual-role of both Peter and Flossie in ‘Soap' – and winning national critical acclaim for the same. His new written work is currently in Hollywood , with a treatment on the life and times of a medieval alchemist who conjures up more than he intended too…..

UK/Global Management: Doug Beaumont - 01766 590666
victoria@russellgrant.com

IMG Management Hollywood USA: Babette Perry -
Babette.Perry@imgworld.com