THEATREclub are delirah and excirah to announce...WORKSHOPS!

HOW WE MADE THE FAMILY

a workshop for actors, performers and theatre-makers

We told you we would do it but we have actually managed to set a date for our rescheduled summer workshops!

We are offering a 3-day workshop for actors to coincide with our new show THE FAMILY. This workshop will explore THEATREclub’s unique method of performance making, focusing on the space between fiction and reality.

Over three days, we will explore the various elements of creating work in the style we have developed throughout our productions, working only with what you bring and learning to trust how interesting that is.

Some of the work will include, looking at our unique style of improvisation, working with a game structure and allowing to trust the freedom to explore. Working this way adds to the actors process as relationships begin to develop within a group of actors that are grounded in trust and security, the building blocks of ensemble building. The workshops will be led by THEATREclub’s own Grace Dyas and Shane Byrne (cast member of THE FAMILY) and will be joined each day by a different memeber of the cast of THE FAMILY.

So... in short...

Come and hang around with us!

Venue: Project Arts Centre

Date: Monday 23rd January - Wednesday 25th January

Time: 11am - 4pm daily

Cost: €80

HOW DO I APPLY?:

If interested, please email THEATREclub at theatreclubbing@gmail.com. The subject line should be “How we made THE FAMILY” and simply tell us why you would like to take part in the workshop. Feel free to email us if you have any questions about the workshop.

The deadline for applications is Thursday January 19th.

THEATREclub are part of PROJECT CATALYST an initiative of Project Arts Centre.

Ensemble building - THEATREclub style!

ANNOUNCMENT CONTAINING TOTALLY NEW INFORMATION

ATTENTION!!!
ANNOUNCEMENT CONTAINING
TOTALLY NEW INFORMATION.

Here at THEATREclub HQ we have been talking. We know that money is tight. We know because we know that and because so many of our Twenty Ten players talked about it.
We’ve made an amazing epic 6 hour performance of a year. We made it for you to see it.

And so even if your broke, we still need you to be there.

There’s only a few tickets left now and we can only do this once. We’ll never get to do it again.

SO WE HAVE MADE A PLAN.

At 2pm today we are going to release a very LIMITED number of PAY WHAT YOU CAN TICKETS for our marathon performance**** TOMORROW at 11am.

Here’s how it works. From 2pm onwards you can call Project Arts Centre on 018819613/4 or come into box-office and NAME YOUR PRICE. Then you’ll have your ticket. Makes sense?

There’s only 15 of our these tickets available and when they’re gone they’re gone. We’ll let you know here how many are left!

NOW. You can’t get this deal from Fringe Box-Office. You have to come to Project or phone PROJECT. ARE YOU READY. GO.

**** Some notes on the MARATHON TWENTY TEN: JAN-DEC: “a tiny brilliant year”

1. Schedule:
11am January-April
13pm 20 Minute Lunch Break with lovely nibbles from our friends Soup Dragon
13.20 May-August
15.20 40 Minute Dinner Break and Soup Dragon will be back again
16.00 September-Dec...

THEN: Free ABSOLUT and amazing feelings of comadery and new social outlook following huge momentous experience had with group of strangers.

2. You can come in and out. We won’t mind. You can go to the toilet if you need too! You can come and see some or all. We won’t mind that either.


XXX

It's All Coming Together

This week in 365 words...

Last week we began to understand that these people who played our game - whom we had been listening to, reading about, and discussing over tables - were REAL. These people, who shared their thoughts, secrets and experiences with us, who have given us our entire script, who have helped us to create our most EXCITING, AMBITIOUS project yet, were all REAL PEOPLE. That thought is still mind blowing. That is still sinking in. And now we are starting to make even more realisations.
We are starting to notice the links, the repetition, the patterns that are emerging amongst the entries. These entries were anonymous, we understand and respect that. But we are only human.
If we have learned anything from this show above all else we have learned that we are ALL ONLY HUMAN. And that is why, despite ourselves, we are starting put the pieces together. We are watching the stories connect, intertwine and develop before our eyes.
We are starting to wonder if the person who was working so hard to learn Japanese, struggling with every adverb and adjective, was the same person who eventually landed a job in Tokyo.
We are wondering if the girl who was ignoring the boy that loved her was the same girl who realised she’d been in love with him all along.
We are hoping that the person who felt as though nothing would ever be good again was the same one who realised that sometimes everything turns out alright.
Should we be doing this? Should we be making these links? You’ll soon see for yourself; it’s impossible not to. It’s what makes this show fascinating; watching all those people who played the game trying, failing, learning, and developing throughout the year TWENTY TEN.
We are acutely aware of how precious each one of these personal developments is and we are honoured to have been bestowed with them. We are treating them with the utmost care, we promise you that. We will not jeopardise what we have been given here. We will not make assumptions.
But what we’re trying to say is that our minds have begun to wonder and wander, and soon yours will too.

Same Things. Same Time.

This week in 365 words...

It’s starting to hit us now. It really is. We are starting to understand that these are not just lines, not just words on pages, not imitations or recreations. These are REAL people who felt REAL things.
These are REAL people who we walk past in the street, who we eat lunch with, who sit opposite us on the bus. And they told us EVERYTHING.
They confided in us when they were sad, scared or lonely. They rushed home to tell us about their victories and their triumphs. They confessed their greatest fears, hopes, dreams and aspirations. They leaned on us for emotional support and they revelled in retelling us the joys of their day.
And now we are sitting in the rehearsal room listening to these inner most thoughts, to these sacred feelings, delighted whispers, quiet confessions and cautious murmurings - and we’re turning it all into theatre. Theatre that has us laughing and crying and taking deep breaths. Theatre that won’t leave our thoughts, that runs through our minds long after our heads hit the pillow.
WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER. That’s how it makes us feel. We are all PEOPLE and we’ve all felt the SAME things at the SAME time. We have all been dragged through the mud at one stage. We have all picked ourselves up and dusted ourselves off, only to trip again.
We have all felt as though everything is unachievable, impossible and we have all had moments where suddenly we feel as though everything will be alright.
And now all of these feelings are being translated into art. We are taking the raw emotions, the raw experiences and we are performing them. For YOU. For EVERYONE and ANYONE who learned something in the year TWENTY TEN and for anyone who wants to learn MORE.
We need to listen to each other. We have more in common than you may think. We need to listen and to learn and MOVE FORWARD. Sometimes we are CONVINCING ourselves that we are lonely, that there is no one there to help us, that we are all fucked. It’s not true.
WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER. Come and find out how.

WE'VE STARTED

Here at THEATREclub we have started rehearsals. We are running lines. Line after line after line. And we’re getting better.
We’ve also gotten very fond of recording things lately. YOU’VE shown us how affective it can be. We want to remember all of these things we’re learning and so we’re writing them down; just like you did for us.
Do you want to hear some?
We’ve learnt that “BUTT BREAKS” aren’t as exciting as they sound, that it’s never a good idea to get under the duvet whilst learning lines, that “statistics” can be a difficult word to say, that giving up drinking was the right thing to do, that working together makes a task less daunting and that we are all heading toward a totally new and unique experience.
That’s EXCITING isn’t it? And there’s more on its way. We want to keep you up to date so we’ve come up with a plan. Listen up; it works like this.
We’re going to tell you what we’ve learnt. First in TWENTY words. Then in TEN words. Then in a little picture.
Do you see what we’re doing here? Do you see the PATTERN?
Once a week we’ll sum it all up for you in THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY FIVE WORDS. Words from the actors and the interns, the makers and the observers.
And we’ll be out on the streets too. We’ll be asking YOU what YOU learned today. We’ll be asking YOU and your uncles and your girlfriends and your neighbours. We might even be giving out free bags if we like what you say. If we like how you play. Because it’s not too late to play, did you know that?
You can play on facebook, on twitter, on your blog, at the dinner table. Lets all tell each what we’ve learned. Lets all learn from each other.
Just don’t forget about “#TWENTYTEN” and “@THEATREclub” and all that. That’s important. That’s what could get you WINNING tickets. Can you imagine?
We’ll be having lots of quizzes, playing games. Lots of questions that we need YOU to answer.
So there. That’s our plan. In THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY FIVE words. DID YOU NOTICE THAT?

NEW CLUBBERS WANTED

Heyis. So we're all geared up and ready to go for Twenty Ten at ABSOLUT FRINGE BRAVE NEW WORLD
Now we just need the TEAM.


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small change is making a big difference (and big stories too!)

“where do the lonely people go? i don't mean to die, i mean where do they all go. to be. [oh my god a fox. a fox outside my window. wandering along, all chilled. long long legs and tail touching the ground. why is it that whenever i see a fox it feels like a magical event and my mouth falls open. big ears and white tip tail, lovely street-lamp brown. gone again. anyway.] i know i'm not the only one who suffers crowds to escape to sitting alone, witness to foxes. so where are they? the people like me. someone jokingly called me a lesbian tonight and i thought my face would erode with the effort of choosing an expression. the pain. i didn't frame any of this in the context of 'i have learned', sorry. so ok. i learned that ted hughes had a wife before sylvia plath who killed her daughter and then put her head in an oven too. dark.”

That’s a quote from THEATREclub’s new Project ‘Twenty Ten’. During 2010, we sent an email once a day and asked ‘What have you learned today?’. These peoples anonymous responses will form the the text for our serial epic ‘Twenty Ten’ where we aim to perfectly document the year. The text is full of news bites, sob stories, revelations,(that the moment in the doorway knocked all the breath out of me for a long time) tid bits, truths and learnt facts.
2010 was a huge year in our countries history, and we have a living breathing archive of the year on our hands.

We think it’s a good idea. Do you?

Or what about a show that tackles sex addiction and child abuse from the real perspective of the individual affected. And individual who happens to be one of the most innovative and exciting performers of our generation?

Or a show that aims to tell the stories of the Ryan report, stories that where buried for so long, through music, media and dance?

We live in a very different world than the one we watched 2009 slip into 2010 in. Things have changed. A lot has gone wrong. And we are reeling. Whether we know it or not.

It’s hard for any of us to know what to do. How can one person make a difference? What can you do if its just you?

As artists we have a duty to create a space where we as a society can reflect on what’s happened and hopefully then, we might know what to do next.

These are all good ideas. Ideas that are important and that need to happen. But ideas cost money. Projects so big, with such a big task, need a lot of people to make them happen.

(It costs 600 for a rehearsal room for four weeks.)

It’s hard for any of us to know what to do. How can one person make a difference? What can you do if its just you?

(Insurance. PRSI. Tax.)

A new crowdfunding website Fund It.ie is the reason lots of these great ideas will be able to happen, and provides us as individuals to be able to make these huge scale ideas happen.

(Posters, flyers, props)

The website provides a platform where artists can tell us about their ideas and we can give small change or big cash and get great rewards.

After 100 days, its already raised over €144,831.

Before we had a highly trained english speaking young computer literate workforce in a country with a tiny corporation tax we had poems, plays, paintings and prose which travelled the world and let everyone know that this little Island good roar long before any tiger came along.

We have at our disposal the ability to create a new boom economy, an economy of ideas.

Neil Watkins and THISISPOPBABY’s electrifying (literaly, its first performance was cut short by a power cut!) will take place at ABSOLUT FRINGE this year.

Brokentalkers crowd funded to do a workshop towards the development of their new piece The Blue Boy.