EDUCATION AND OUTREACH
CHARACTER, COMEDY & ACUALITY
Elaine Pantling of Laurielorry is an extremely skilled workshop leader. She has worked with various groups including the recovering mentally ill, adults with learning difficulties and disabilities, women’s groups, hard to reach adults and children, mainstream and further education groups. Elaine has vast experience of teaching Theatre and Performing Arts at various levels from Key stage 2/3 up to GCSE, A Level, HND and BA as well as facilitating group training sessions and events for the corporate sector.
“A communicator of real lives through writing, devising, discussion, debate and performance”
Each of the below workshops is tailor made to suit the needs of the group, whether writing and devising for performance, or purely a time of exploration, questioning and fun.
The workshops for training purposes can be used to raise awareness of difficult issues; and provide an educational resource for PSHE and Citizenship.
Workshop 1 – from 2 hours -
· Writing and Devising: This workshop enables the participants to explore objects and situations from their ‘everydayness’ and to transform them into an extraordinary performed situation and become a partaker of change.
Exploring real stories and transforming them into a theatrical happening
Workshop 2 – 2 hours
· Confidence Building: This workshop explores self esteem issues that arise in the everydayness of the individual, in the home, the school and the workplace. To tease out what is familiar, to excite, to stimulate, to facilitate and to enable people to explore their own potential, to question and to challenge. The main focus is to have fun and to find the voice within, to let go and to enjoy the person you are and to leave with a mountain top experience.
Workshop 3: from 2 hours -
· Domestic Violence/Abuse: The aim of the workshop is to raise awareness of the realities of Domestic Violence and to dispel the myths and stigmas surrounding a taboo subject. To empower, to question and explore the boundaries of our behaviour, and where the line is drawn between what is acceptable or unacceptable.
This workshop can be expanded to a longer residency option with an added performance of Laurielorry’s production Cracks of Light which explores and highlights issues surrounding domestic violence and abuse. The performance is ideally staged at the start of the residency allowing participants easier access to open debate and understanding of a difficult subject matter in an informative, entertaining but poignant way.
Wrestling with words, wrestling with life, wrestling with fractured lives
Costs
2 hour workshop -
Curtain raiser performances, residencies and training sessions vary in price depending on the specific needs and requirements of the organisation so please contact makin projects to discuss options.
