Sunday 12 January 10am - Sunday 13 April 5.30pm

A sequence of four Sunday monthly workshops

with Sarah Kane

These one-day workshops provide an opportunity to explore practically the core elements of the artistic speech techniques developed by Rudolf Steiner at the beginning of the twentieth century. The approach aims to bring what an actor speaks to life by exploring where we might find the life of words themselves. The approach can inspire and empower actors for their work by building a living and sensitive bridge between an actor’s inner life and the words a character speaks.

Although these workshops are designed as a series and one builds on to the previous one, each workshop is an entirety in itself and can be taken individually.

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Sunday 12 January 10.00 - 5.30pm ~ The Role Of The Imagination In An Actor’s Speech

Speech that is alive and embodied is hard to contemplate without engaging the actor’s imagination. We will explore the tools Steiner proposes to use to connect inner pictures with speaking.

The next three workshops explore the other major ‘pillar’ in Steiner’s speech technique, the immediate and intimate connection between movement and an actor’s inner life.  It is a major tool in creating character vocally.

Sunday 23 February 10am - 5.30pm ~ Steiner’s Speech Gestures

The art of speaking was close to Steiner’s heart and the speech gestures open a new world, a new way of approaching speech for the actor, connected most emphatically with movement. All the following elements explored in the coming workshops build on these foundations.

Sunday 9 March 10 am – 5.30pm ~ Sounds, Syllables, Words As Gesture

Steiner’s approach offers tools to give life and substance to words that go beyond their meaning: how can gestures contribute to that life, so that they acquire colour, dynamic and rhythm?

Sunday 27 April 10am – 5.30pm ~ Exploring The Individuality of A Character’s Voice

Working with both sound and gesture the workshop will investigate how to create the vocal individuality of the character

Please bring clothes and shoes suitable for the Chekhov workshops as a well as a piece of text such as a monologue or poem known by heart, so that it can be used in the exploration in practice of any aspect of the techniques.

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Workshop Fees:

1 workshop day: £55

4  workshops: £195

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Sarah Kane trained in Steiner’s approach to speech and voice, then Chekhov’s approach to acting with many of his original students. She now integrates them in her teaching, directing and performing, which takes place internationally.

TO FOLLOW:

April – July 2025

Sundays: CREATING A CHARACTER IN VOICE AND SPEECH