the salon:collective country re:treat

- photos by Simon Desborough The salon took their first official re:treat out-of-town with film makers Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Lasse Johansson. In 48 hours a film was conceived, rehearsed and filmed based on relationships within Chekhov’s The Seagull. This is a continuation of the salon:collective’s developmental stages with the play, and a very important
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NEW 5 day workshop for actors announced for May

What’s Going On Inside? An actor’s guide to creating a complex character. Dominic Kelly and Gaby Santinelli are combining their experience as acting teachers to further develop fully-engaged, in-the-moment acting technique in London: a veritable dynamic powerhouse.  They are excited to now offer the first in a series of on-going exploratory workshops, in conjunction with
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the salon:collective rehearsals – developing and discovering relationships

Last Monday, the group met to continue the dissemination and exploration of interpersonal relationships held within The Seagull. Here we explore the relationship between Masha and her mother, Polina. Very little is written about their relationship in the text, so we are exploring their interplay through free-form improvisation. the salon:collective work from the inside out.
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the salon:collective unhinge and disseminate

This Monday evening, the salon:collective met for their first development session. Using our shared methodology of approach we launched directly into a raw and volatile exploration of the relationships in the first act of Chekhov’s The Seagull. The results were beautifully realised by the collective of actors, and the road towards a reworking of The
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