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Give the artist a break from the City
salon:retreat May 18th-21st (weekend retreat in the gorgeous coutryside) Text Analysis is one of the most important skills to have under your belt as an actor, writer, or creative wishing to understand the nuts and bolts of a scene. This retreat weekend will transport you into a space where you can devote your attention to
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Twelfth Night Auditions!
SALON:AUDITIONS! Announcing auditions for the salon:collective’s open air production of TWELFTH NIGHT (skilfully edited), taking place in Cornwall in July 2012! High energy production, with live music & dance, also involving local children & local people, & promenading between sites within one village! Directed by Dominic Kelly, the cast will work together, rehearsing in London,
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OCCUPY: LOVE
The salon collective presents, an alternative Valentine’s night with the Bard’s works. “the course of true love never did run smooth” We all know there’s more to love than chocolates & roses… Join the salon:collective players in their occupancy of the Cockpit Theatre. Enter their campsite and watch as they reclaim the true meaning of the word ‘love’;
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Meisner beginners course
SUMMER COURSES COMING! Have you ever found it hard to be truthful on stage?
Do you feel self-conscious on stage, or on camera?
Do you need a reliable acting system to follow? This course of five sessions (meeting once a week) will work intensively on the first stages of the Meisner Technique. Focusing on the repetition exercise, expert Meisner
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Alison Mosshart from The Kills – Reviews Cowboy Mouth
Alison Mosshart, half of one of London’s most celebrated punk-rock alt bands, The Kills, surprised us with a visit to the opening night of Cowboy Mouth, at the King’s Head Theatre. This is what she had to say about it: “The set is simple. It’s got the essentials; instruments, a Bob Dylan photograph, bedsheets. Slim and
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Cowboy Mouth Fundraising Smashing Party!
Our FUNDRAISER for Cowboy Mouth is not far away. Saturday 17th September!! We have a really full night organised for you with plenty of Americana/Rock’n'Roll bands, a subsidised bar, Tequila girls and boys, a walk-in photobooth, an indescribable comedy talent fresh from Edinburgh, Luisa Omeilan (FEMALE COMEDIAN OF THE YEAR FINALIST 2011) “Improvisation that is nothing short of astounding” ***** THREE
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Happy Birthday, Sanford Meisner!
*** HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SANFORD MEISNER *** Sanford Meisner, who sadly I never did and I never will meet, lives on inside a huge amount of actor’s hearts. He managed to create a form and approach to producing truthful acting that has not only created amazing actors but has enabled students of the technique to learn
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chekhov: bites, bit hard back
the salon:collective produced its debut performance two weeks ago, salon:bites chekhov. It was the result of a 4 week course taking 8 actors through a process of analysing text (lead by leading text analysis teacher, Gaby Santinelli and Meisner coach, Dominic Kelly) and lifting the complexities of Chekhov’s plays and characters into a living, breathing
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“somehow we shall live our lives no matter what happens to us”
One of our salon:photographers, Kim Hardy, visited the site of a recent London riot. This is what he had to say: “Seeing how quickly latent frustration can quickly erupt in pockets of random hysteria really scares me. The reality of standing next to a furniture store that had been the life of a community and
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salon:bites into chekhov
Just under a week to go for our Chekhovian scenes, our Punchdrunk designer, and our Berlin musical director to thread together an evening of Russian angst, love and philosophy. We’re super excited to be having our first public show, be our first public audience! Vodka in the bar afterwards with musicians playing, artists talking, audience
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