MemelFest'24 TEATRO DIRBTUVĖS su Michael Woodwood

I General workshops

In this practical session participants will be led through a series of exercises, games and improvisation to be used with actors for warm-ups, exploring text, characterisation, scene work and acting technique. Based mainly on the methodology of Jacques Lecoq, this fun, creative workshop uses mainly physical theatre, objects and music to explore space and body. An opportunity to let your imagination fly.

II Advanced workshops

In this practical session participants will get the chance to work both individually and within a group. Using more advanced acting exercises drawn from such practitioners as Stanislavsky, Uta Hagen and Sanford Meisner the session will use theories and techniques, which help the actor prepare for performance, build a character and make acting real. We will explore scene work in pairs and individual monologues, so be prepared to analyse your own acting and perform in front of other participants.

Michael Woodwood trained as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and has worked in the theatre for over thirty years as an actor, writer and director. As a freelance director he has worked for the English Shakespeare Company, GB Touring, UK Touring Theatre, The Watermill Newbury and regularly for the Director’s Cut Theatre collective. A number of his productions have toured the UK and Michael regularly tours productions to international theatre festivals most recently to Texas, Tulsa and Florida USA. For the past three years Michael has been the director of the Shakespeare season at the Kenneth More Theatre London and was for a number of years Artistic Director of the professional company at the Redbridge Drama Centre in London. Michael is also an experienced workshop leader and lecturer and regularly runs master classes in acting and presentation in the UK and Europe. He has taught at a number of drama academies in the UK and is regular lecturer at Kaunas Music Academy and Klaipeda University in Lithuania and regularly teaches acting at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, Austria, in the Opera Performance department. Michael has run acting classes and workshops at theatre festivals in Germany, Nepal, USA, Ireland, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Lithuania and Austria. His original association with Lithuania began in 2009 when he visited a theatre festival in Telsiai and to where he has been returning ever since.