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The Repertory Players and Jump Productions have set up a Theatre School for people in Harare who are interested or active in theatrical activities, whether on stage or backstage.
The school was launched on September 22 and will run until late November, ending with a series of staged productions in which the skills of the participants will be put to the test. Training sessions are being held once a week at Reps Theatre.
Heading up the initiative is well-known actor and director Kevin Hanssen, who is chairman of the Reps training and development committee, which oversees all efforts to introduce newcomers to the theatre and give them education and training in all aspects of theatrical endeavour.
Said Mr Hanssen: "This is a 10-week course open to all interested people, hosted by some of Harare's top theatrical coaches. The course is very hands-on and lots of fun … from 0 to 100 in 10 weeks."
Participants choose one course from the four on offer: Acting, Singing and Dancing, Visual Design and Technical Design. Coaches on the acting course include Kevin Hanssen, Chipo Chikara, Ashleigh-May Bawden, Jamie McLaren, Sue Bolt and Musa Saruro and the course sees the team breaking a script down into units, as well as doing vocal work, improvisation and warm-up techniques, developing an emotional journey for a character and preparing for performance.
The Singing and Dancing coaches include Mathias Julius, Sunniva Berg, Caroline Yule and Ryan Lawrence. It covers theatre music and dance, classical singing, ballroom dancing, pop and modern singing and dancing.
The coaches in Visual Design for the theatre include Heather Cameron and Linda Hyde, with a course outline that includes devising an initial overall design concept, set design, costume design, decor, props, and general design principles.
Technical Design for the theatre coaches include Tim Garrard, Linda Hyde, PJ Smythe, Marc Thomas and Rob Hollands and the course outline includes a tour of Reps Theatre, crewing for backstage, sound design, lighting design.
The courses run from September 22 to October 27 for phase one (new skills), November 3 to 19 for phase two (rehearsals) and November 20 to 26 (graduation week shows).
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