Introduction to Clowning with Mick Barnfather

Actiontrack Presents -
An Introduction to Clowning with Mick Barnfather.

Actiontrack are thrilled to offer this workshop with a top industry professional. Mick Barnfather has been working in theatre as an actor, director and teacher for more than thirty five years. He has been a member of Theatre de Complicite since 1986 and hosts a wide variety of other theatrical accomplishments. He’s coming to Taunton!

If you fancy discovering how to access your own clown or even if you are interested in theatre in any way, this workshop is not to be missed. In this workshop you will look at what it is that makes us laugh and how we can be funny. It is not about big shoes, make up and squirty flowers. You will concentrate on the clown and the pleasure to be ridiculous in the space. The clown is joyful, playful, mischievous and full of fantasy. Nothing in this workshop is related to a style but very much looking to find what is uniquely funny about each person and how they can make that accessible to an audience.

July 23rd 2016
10.00 - 16.00
£45
Flook House, Taunton, TA1 1BT
To book contact cind.actiontrack@btconnect.com

More info about Mick:

He was a teacher at the Philippe Gaulier School where he taught Bouffon, Clown and Neutral Mask. He is a regular teacher at the National Centre for Circus Arts in London, where he teaches Theatre Studies on the three year degree program, and the London School of Musical Theatre. He has taught Physical Theatre for some twenty years for the British American Drama Academy and RADA for ten years. During this time he also taught on the open Complicité workshop programs and gave classes and courses in Hong Kong, Berlin, Hamburg, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland and America.

He directed the first Peepolykus show Let The Donkey Go and before that directed David Sant from this talented company in a one man show called The Titanic, Mussolini and the Doctor. Other directing credits include Tin Moon for Hot House Theatre, Le Mort de Client for Told by an Idiot, Bitches Ball, Missionary's Position and Etherdome all for Pennydreadful and final direction on Hoipolloi's Honestly.

During his career as an actor and director, he has always continued to teach theatre. He worked at the Commedia School in Copenhagen where he taught Melodrama and Neutral Mask. He taught Clown at the Central School of Speech and Drama and Devising Theatre at both Rose Bruford Drama School and the Manchester Metropolitan University.

http://www.mickbarnfather.com/

For more information visit http://www.actiontrackperformance.co.uk/