Starters 3 is now out and completes the set of Starters, which between them cover work on 13 practitioners and 5 theatre styles.
- Starters 1 – Stanislavski, Brecht, Artaud, Peter Brook, Augusto Boal and Rudolf Laban.
- Starters 2 – Jacques Lecoq, Jerzy Grotowski, Steven Berkoff, Jean-Louis Barrault, Katie Mitchell, and Emma Rice [Kneehigh and Wise Children].
- Starters 3 – Edward Gordon Craig, Mime, Mask, Commedia dell’ Arte, Political Theatre, Verbatim Theatre.
Each Starter is £40 or there’s a Starters Bundle where you can buy all three Starters and get £20 off – £100 instead of £120!
The aim is to introduce the main facts about each practitioner and style, including practical work as always. This means that teachers can give a flavour of any of them as a ‘starter’ to a new group of students, swapping and changing according to how the work went down with their students. It also means that the teachers can look over the complete list and can be assured that with Jeni’s usual carefulness, the work on each area genuinely reflects the flavour of each practitioner or style. Sometimes teachers [and Jeni understands this having been there herself] fly to what they know best because it’s safe. In fact, engaging with something that is new to them can be exciting and inspirational for both teacher and students.