Exclusive Offer to GSA Students for Dublin Dance Festival!!

Dublin Dance Festival would like to do a special offer for Gaiety School of Acting students for Daniel Linehan’s performances at the Samuel Beckett Theatre on Wednesday 15 and Thursday 16 at 7pm.

 

They are offering tickets for €8, bookable through the DDF Box Office – on 01 672 8815, or pop in the Box Office in Filmbase in Temple Bar in person. Gaiety School students should quote: ‘Linehan Offer’ to avail of the discount.

 

Daniel Linehan – Montage for Three & Not About Everything

Samuel Beckett Theatre

May 15 & 16

7pm

This smart, witty double bill is bursting with ideas. Montage for Three sees two dancers recreate a series of projected photos – breathing new life into the static images and making you think afresh about what’s happening in pictures of people we all know – Marilyn Monroe, Winston Churchill and Martin Luther King to name a few.
Linehan delivers a monologue to the audience all through Not About Everything – but while spinning constantly. It’s a physical tour de force!

http://www.dublindancefestival.ie/festival-performances/montage-for-three-not-about-everything/

 

Here’s Daniel talking about the show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viT4vFx-klo

We Want Your Opinion!!!

A new Internet business requires actors to provide real life feedback (on camera)
on their own experiences with famous brands products and services, anything
from Abercrombie and Fitch to Zara, Budweiser to Vodafone, Rabo Bank to
Ryanair.

This online initiative will enable consumers to provide video feedback on products and services
that they buy. So if you really love those new shoes you bought you can share it with the
world, and the company that made them, and maybe they will give you something towards
your next pair! Or, if your mobile phone provider is really letting you down, you can share your
dissatisfaction publicly and let them come back to you with their remedy.

Videos will be a maximum of 1 minute long and can be recorded on a camera, webcam or
mobile. The aim is to capture a few hundred videos in the next few weeks.

Gaiety School of Acting students have the opportunity to earn a little cash for being in front of a
camera (or behind it capturing their friends and family).

If you are interested, please contact Bartley O’Connor (bartley@sqeeler.com). For further
information, come to the Gaiety School of Acting on Tuesday, 9th April at 2pm where Bartley
will explain more!

Northern Ireland Health & Safety Advert Casting Call

We are  looking for an assortment of actors from 5 years old to 75, both males and females:

so children /teenagers/20ies/30ies /40ies/50ies/60ies/70ies both male and female are required.

The casting will be in Belfast City Center this Monday the 28th and Tuesday 29th of January.

We are not looking for actors as such- more students of drama or people on the fringe of a professional career as it is for a Health and Safety advert. People from the amateur world would be welcome.

Actors should be based in Northern Ireland and be available to audition up there.

(Please  state if you hold a driving licence as some of the cast will be needed to drive a car or motorcycle. It is not necessary for the role but is an advantage.)

Our shoot dates are

Monday 25^th February – Saturday 2^nd March (possibly into Sunday)

Most of the artists will be required for one day only but some may need them for two days.

Please send a photo and CV to rebeccastapleton1@gmail.com. If no CV is available please send a recent picture along with a brief about yourself and your acting experience.

Twisted Focus present “Apples” by John Retallack 28th Jan- 2nd Feb

Twisted Focus present “Apples” by John Retallack the 28th Jan- 2nd Feb at The New Theatre Temple Bar

Apples by John Retalack adapted from the novel by Richard Milward

Directed by Ronan Wilmot

Produced by Twisted Focus

 Apples is a play about sex and the city when you’re 15.

“Apples cocks an unflinching hard-stare at the sharp end of teenage life,

and the play is edgy, exciting and quite brilliant. The drugs, the sex, the 

boozing… it all smacks beautifully of the real thing.

Time Out

It has toured the UK and was a winner of the coveted Herald Angel Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

After its sell out Irish Debut in RiRa at The Globe, Twisted Focus are delighted to be bringing back “Apples” to The New Theatre, Temple Bar.

Cast includes: Anna Clifford, Diane Jennings, Mark Lavery, Matthew Kelly, Nicola Lucey and Ruairí Heading.

 

Performances: Mon Jan 28th –  Sat 2nd Feb 2013,

Time: 7.30pm

Venue: The New Theatre Temple Bar

Tickets:€15/€12 concession/€10- group rate

Booking: 016703361 www.thenewtheatre.com

 

2 Actors Required for HELL & BACK: Ireland’s Toughest 10K Challenge

Alive Outside Sports Events Company require 2 actors for 2 separate day’s work at our HELL&BACK event.

It is vital that both actors are available to attend both H&B dates for continuity…

Male/Female actors (does not matter gender) as long as quirky, energetic and able to scare the living bejayzuz out of our 2,000+ nervous participants!

HELL&BACK is a unique, extreme running event in Killruddery House & Gardens, Bray, Co Wicklow (estate where they filmed Tudors and other movies).

It involves participants running over mountains, forests, swamps, getting electric shocks, crawling under barbed wire and lots more insane challenges!

We want YOU to add to our “Sense of Theatre” on the day & meet and greet 2,000+ crazies at Killruddery gate and ‘wind them up’ at start line and give a hell of a congratulations when they cross the Finish line exhausted!

Dates: Sunday 27^th January & Sun 3^rd February 2013

Time: 9am – 3pm

Pay: €150pp/pd / event = €300 per actor for both H&B events

We will provide the Devil costume and face paint

We will also  have your brief – but you have ‘carte blanche’ to fit into your role…

Check out our web: http://www.hellandback.ie/index.html

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEz2gaee8ow

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82Zv6Cu_YlM

We will require to meet you to choose 2 suitable actors in our office in Dun Laoghaire (see address below) next week.

5 Rogan’s Court, Patrick Street, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.

If interested, please contact Simon Bewley, by email with your contact mob no.

E: simon.bewley@aliveoutside.ie

‘My First 2 weeks of 1st Year in Professional Actor Training’, Marnie McCleane-Fay

So! We’re two weeks into the full time 2 year course at the Gaiety School of Acting and I can honestly say it’s been the toughest but most rewarding two weeks of my life. In the past week I have studied acting, voice, movement, tap, dance, singing, stage combat, theatre history, mime, stage craft, text, improvisation, audition technique and Gaiety’s most original and creative class, manifesto. The core subjects would be voice and acting, the two most general important tools for an actor.

Each day starts with a fifteen to thirty minute intensive warm up packed with sit ups and push ups designed to build up our strength and fitness levels in order to make us ready for the intensive life style in store for us. I have to say for the first few days the warm ups were killer, I felt aches in muscles I never even knew existed,  but despite this the amount of satisfaction you get from improving everyday more than made up for it. By the second week I felt ten times more flexible and my focus had improved enormously.  I was fully engaged and getting the most out of my warm up. In terms of voice my breathing is so different, I’ve learned so much already.

The sense of focus and drive is infectious in the gaiety school! You go to class you get the most out of it , you work you engage and you give it your all and then you’re on to the next class. But what’s even nicer is that despite that strong work force, its fun. I run around voice class with my fellow students making the strangest noises and no one is one bit self-conscious. We have massage circles before class and we’ve all only known each other about two weeks. You go to the green room at lunch time and the second years chat to you openly, full of advice and funny stories. All the teachers are kind and you can really tell it’s not just a job to them, it’s a passion.  So far I love the gaiety and I can tell the next two years are going to be long, but I know when it’s over I’ll have made amazing friends and had the training of a lifetime.

 

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We have started accepting applications for the Two Year Full Time Intensive Professional Actor Training Course 2013/14. Auditions will commence in January 2013. Your can find out more information on our website: http://www.gaietyschool.com/courses/full_time/

‘Just another week in the Gaiety School of Acting’, Keith Walker 1st year 2011/2013

I’ve just completed Term one as a full-time student in the Gaiety School of Acting and it’s been a thoroughly enjoyable experience so far. The training and guidance we have received in the relatively short period that we’ve been here, has helped me immensely. Every aspect of my life has changed. I think this is largely due to how your day is structured and after only a few weeks every part of your life becomes inextricably linked to what you’re doing within the school. There is a high level of intensity to the work we do but if you approach the work with a positive attitude it never becomes overbearing and the rewards are much more enjoyable.

The training is divided between different classes. Acting, Voice, Stage Combat, Text, Mime, Stagecraft, Movement, Dance/Tap, Improvisation, Singing and Manifesto.  The methods used in each class obviously vary but the knowledge and technique they provide all complement each other perfectly.

Our acting classes are, for me, the focal point of the training. Every day through performance or observation you learn something new. And for me, acquiring these new elements regardless of how small they may seem is vital because there is great satisfaction in personal progression.

From a physical point of view, the improvement in my voice, coordination and posture has been excellent. The breathing exercises which we perform on a daily basis are hugely beneficial and allow to you to attain much more control on how you apply your voice. I really enjoy the physical aspect of our training particularly dance and stage combat. The stretching we do in dance class at times can be quite challenging and often uncomfortable but is very rewarding.

Our Manifesto classes are where we perform presentation pieces we have devised. We are usually given a basis for inspiration and its great seeing everybody’s interpretation and the performances they create. The level of the work that everyone creates is invariably high so you have to remain dedicated to what you’re doing. Each presentation provides us with something different from which we learn.  Of course there can be times when the performance that you create doesn’t resonate with your audience. A performance of my own making being one of the most spectacular failures to date. But, there’s no progress without failure.

We’ve just began term two with a week under the tutorage of Raymond Keane. An experience unlike any other. Remarkable character and his guidance has given me a whole new philosophy on the idea of stage presence.

But it’s Saturday afternoon, I’m just home from work and I have a presidential speech by Ronald Reagan which needs memorizing. Just another week in the Gaiety School of Acting.

First Year – First Week

Wow! What a week. I could never have imagined how intense this course was going to be. Every day is jammed packed from the early hours of the morning with amazing classes, in such varied subjects as Stage Craft, Voice, Dance, Stage Combat and Mime. There are twelve subjects in total with Voice, Acting and Manifesto at the core of the syllabus.

With so much intensive teaching on a daily basis I feel like I have been at the school for much longer than a week. The knowledge that our tutors impart and the passion that they deliver it with really is inspiring.

In the first week alone I have already learned so much about myself: my posture, where I breath from, where I hold my tension, how to stand better, that my coordination isn’t near as good as I thought it was! The list goes on and on.

We are asked to keep journals and now I really understand why. We are bestowed with so much priceless information, skills and experience that it would be impossible for us all to absorb it at once. The journals are kept so that all that knowledge will be there when we are ready to take it all in.

The course is extremely challenging with very long hours. Every aspect of your being is examined and analysed and this can be difficult. We all have aspects of ourselves that we would like to keep behind masks or walls. This course has no time for that and they are stripped and that can be daunting to say the least! But it must be done to strip ourselves back and here we have a safe supportive environment in which to do it.

I have had the longest week of my life, I’m exhausted but I loved it!

Week two starts all over again on Monday. I say bring it on.

Lauren Dwyer – 1st Year 2011/2013

Help Fund Alumni Marie-Geneviève’s Upcoming Play via Fund It!

Cosas by Kidding Ensemble

Thunder and Lightening! In Native American culture, this was where clowns were believed to have come from. Now that we are staging our first Theatre Of Clown show, it looks like we have been struck! Oye Oye! Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls! We present to you – Cosas!

A clown lives in a rudimentary and timeless place, one flooded with familiar apparatus taken out of its context. Things have been distorted and taken to the extreme, for better or worse. Cosas is an inventor and a user, both satisfied and frustrated. Out of necessity or just for fun, technology has become everything for her.

Our goal is for audiences to laugh while reflecting on their own relationships with technology. We are working hard to deliver our most challenging work yet, one that will go deep into our obsessions and produce a timely and relevant piece of theatre that speaks about our modern lives.

Thanks to Draíocht, we have been able to workshop ideas for the past few months and we are now getting very excited with our discoveries. It’s not all fun and games – we have many hurdles to overcome but we love it; we are getting great results! Our feeling now is that this can really happen, that this year we can put on a show that will be a milestone in our development as a company and that a great future will spring out of this first step. In other words, we will conquer the world Mwahahahaaha!!!! (or insert own evil laugh here)

Now the practicalities: We will stage our show in Filmbase from the 5th to the 17th of September and of course we would love to see you there! And yes, you’ve guessed it, we’re going to be FRINGING THE FRINGE!

Here’s where you enter the picture: We really need your help to put on the show – it literally can’t happen without it. The money raised will go towards the cost of the venue. Overall, we’ve reduced the cost to the bare minimum thanks to a team of dedicated and talented people who were ready to get on board without knowing if they’ll get paid at all!

However, we’re not going to take your money without giving you something in return. For your help, and depending on how much you pledge, you will receive a variety rewards in return for your kindness (see options list). Give what you can – the price of a couple of pints or, if you want us to perform in your living room, go mad with generosity! Either way, with you on our side, nothing will stop us!

http://www.fundit.ie/project/cosasby-kidding-ensemble

Stars in their Eyes – SUMMER PARTY!!

Our first year’s are fundraising tonight with their very own ‘Stars in their Eyes’ SUMMER PARTY!

9 acts will perform as their favourite musicians for the prize!

Kicking off at 8.30 in the basement in Peadar Kearney’s on Dame St.!

Karaoke and dancing shall follow the performers.

Dress up is optional but don’t be boring! Wear a wig or hat at least!!

Tickets 10euro, can be purchased on the door!

Hope to see you there!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=101872959906157