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OCTOBER 25 - OCTOBER 30 2010
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FESTIVAL
TAKEOVER UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT This year's Takeover is a selection box of theatre, music, dance and comedy, giving you the opportunity to see established companies, new talent and to try something new. Trestle Theatre bring their famous mask and physical style to the festival with the political thriller Burn my Heart, whilst Imitating the Dog will be blurring the lines between theatre and film in their modern age ghost story Hotel Methuselah. This half term we also have stuff to keep younger audiences entertained with Tortoise in a Nut Shell’s The Last Miner and Mud Pie Arts bringing a Halloween themed adventure to the theatre. This year's Takeover is about far more than what is on stage in our Studio and Main House, with our front of house space becoming a key part of the festival experience and several shows taking place outside of the theatre building itself, including Elsewhere, the collaboration between Edinburgh Fringe favourite Belt Up and the theatre’s Young Actors Company. On top of that Takeover will be giving you opportunities to get involved in the festival throughout the week with a diverse selection of workshops, events such as Takeover the City (a day of pervasive gaming and other things across York) and even performance opportunities with Hatch and our Open Mic Night hosted by Birmingham wordsmith Polarbear, who will also be bringing his new show Return to the festival. The festival promises to be a bold, adventurous and thought provoking week of performances.
hatch This is your chance to find your new favourite theatre company! If you want to find the next big thing then HATCH is for you. Over these three days we will be showcasing brand new work from three up and coming companies. We are searching the nation for promising new companies. During a massive pitch day in September we will select the best three who can prove their innovation, imagination and their ability to give you, the audience, a riveting, theatrical experience. Grab them while you can! We're showing a different company each day, so don't miss out! Thursday 28 – Saturday 30 2:30pm / 7:45pm All Tickets £6 3 shows for £15
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“A Night Less Ordinary” is an Arts Council England scheme supported by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, to get more young people into theatres across the country. The £2.5 million scheme provides 618, 000 free tickets to anyone under 26 in more than 200 venues across England, between February 2009 and March 2011. For more information visit www.anightlessordinary.org.uk If you are under 26 and under sign up for the Free Theatre Pass at York Theatre Royal and receive free theatre tickets until March 2011. You can download a form from the learning section of www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk and we will put the allocation of free tickets on the website.
WORKSHOPS
Throughout the festival there will be tons of opportunities to get involved; at the heart of this is our diverse selection of workshops, ranging from fun introductory sessions to master classes aimed at furthering your theatre skills.
TRESTLE MASK WORK
DRUM ON EVERYTHING!
For ages 13+ For ages 8+ Price - £5 Price - £3 (that includes the cost of Tuesday 2.30pm-4.30pm the drumsticks!) This workshop provides an in-depth Tuesday 11am-1pm introduction to Trestle's mask During this fun filled workshop we technique. Participants will learn the will focus on using the mouth and principles of effective mask body as a musical instrument, you performance through physicality and will then be given your own pair of core techniques. professional drum sticks to keep and encouraged to literally, drum on For ages 14+ everything! (Caution may drive Price - £3 parents crazy) Monday 1pm-3pm Shakespeare was written to be performed. In this session Takeover Co-Artistic Director Tom Bellerby will explore ways to bring Shakespeare For ages 14-18 yrs from the page to the stage. For all Price - £3 those who have ever panicked at the Thursday 11am-2pm prospect of acting Shakespeare. Drawing from practitioners such as Frantic Assembly and DV8, this is an MATERCLASS WITH POLARBEAR introduction to physical theatre and For ages 13+ will explore how to say something Price £5 using ones body when words aren't Wednesday 26 1.30pm - 3.30pm enough. Create stories for your mouth, devise stories for speaking, explore stories that allow your tounge and For ages 14+ imagination to run together in a Price - £3 world of rap, grime and rhythms. For Friday 1pm-3pm this master class bring a bag buzzing Rhiannon Jackson Takeover Cowith ideas and packed full of Artistic Director will be leading a session looking at acting techniques experiences. Working with slam poet Polarbear you are sure to have a she uses in rehearsal rooms. story worth speaking. You will have the opportunity to showcase the work you create in the master class at the Open Mic Night on Wednesday 27, alongside Polarbear himself.
ACTING SHAKESPEARE
BODY IN SPACE
STORIES FOR OUR MOUTHS -
ACTING TECHNIQUE WORKSHOP