ACT NOW! DRAMA COMPANY
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Website: http://www.actnowdramaco.com
Location: LONDON
Members: 41
Latest Activity: Nov 22
The Act Now! Drama Company was established by actor/director David Hunt in September 2007 with the aim of exploring diverse acting genres and applying the exploration to professional performance. Rehearsals and classes are geared towards people who have had some experience of drama training and want to pursue the craft to a higher level. All of the original intake had trained and worked in performance to varying degrees.
Sessions consist of 10 x 3 hour acting classes and rehearsals running one evening a week between 7.00pm-10.00pm, plus additional weekend workshops. The rehearsals result in a performance relating to a genre subject studied over the 10 weeks. Rehearsals take place at Mycenae House, Blackheath and cover voice, movement, scene and text exploration, improvisation, directing etc.
The genre subject enables all members to be working on the same topic so that they can build their knowledge on a specific performance related area and also add selected works by the writer to their repertoire of audition speeches or dialogues. There are also devising classes not always connected to the genre subject. Subjects covered so far are Federico Garcia Lorca, August Strindberg, Alan Ayckbourn, Henrik Ibsen, Noel Coward, William Shakespeare. and Greek Theatre.
There are also occasional Saturday Workshops running at Wigmore Hall, Union Chapel, Islington and St Gabriel's Hall, Pimlico which cover voice, devising and genre subjects including Steven Berkoff, Restoration Theatre and Shakespeare Scene Study.
In January 2008 the Act Now! Drama Company performed their first production The Tragedy of Federico Garcia Lorca to a full house at The Broadway Theatre Studio, Catford. Their second production Mind Games - looking at the works of August Strindberg and Alan Ayckbourn - was also performed at The Broadway Theatre Studio in April 2008.
The company premiered their new comedy play That Happy Feeling! written by David Hunt, in September 2008 at the Broadway. The show ran for a week with great public response. This was followed by The Passion of Henrik Ibsen and in January 2009 Coward's Way, looking at the comedy scenes, monologues and songs of Sir Noel Coward.
The companies production of Sophocles’ Greek tragedy Electra ran very sucessfully in March 2009 at The Courtyard, London. Due to popular interest That Happy Feeling! is also scheduled for reprisal at a central venue in mid-2009.
Something Wicked This Way Comes - Shakespeare's villains & villainesses completed a successful run at The Greenwich Playhouse from July 7th - 12th.
More info to follow.
Sessions consist of 10 x 3 hour acting classes and rehearsals running one evening a week between 7.00pm-10.00pm, plus additional weekend workshops. The rehearsals result in a performance relating to a genre subject studied over the 10 weeks. Rehearsals take place at Mycenae House, Blackheath and cover voice, movement, scene and text exploration, improvisation, directing etc.
The genre subject enables all members to be working on the same topic so that they can build their knowledge on a specific performance related area and also add selected works by the writer to their repertoire of audition speeches or dialogues. There are also devising classes not always connected to the genre subject. Subjects covered so far are Federico Garcia Lorca, August Strindberg, Alan Ayckbourn, Henrik Ibsen, Noel Coward, William Shakespeare. and Greek Theatre.
There are also occasional Saturday Workshops running at Wigmore Hall, Union Chapel, Islington and St Gabriel's Hall, Pimlico which cover voice, devising and genre subjects including Steven Berkoff, Restoration Theatre and Shakespeare Scene Study.
In January 2008 the Act Now! Drama Company performed their first production The Tragedy of Federico Garcia Lorca to a full house at The Broadway Theatre Studio, Catford. Their second production Mind Games - looking at the works of August Strindberg and Alan Ayckbourn - was also performed at The Broadway Theatre Studio in April 2008.
The company premiered their new comedy play That Happy Feeling! written by David Hunt, in September 2008 at the Broadway. The show ran for a week with great public response. This was followed by The Passion of Henrik Ibsen and in January 2009 Coward's Way, looking at the comedy scenes, monologues and songs of Sir Noel Coward.
The companies production of Sophocles’ Greek tragedy Electra ran very sucessfully in March 2009 at The Courtyard, London. Due to popular interest That Happy Feeling! is also scheduled for reprisal at a central venue in mid-2009.
Something Wicked This Way Comes - Shakespeare's villains & villainesses completed a successful run at The Greenwich Playhouse from July 7th - 12th.
More info to follow.
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Comment by Linda Ewing on October 27, 2009 at 2:25pm -
Mark Stevenson has set up a Facebook page called the David Hunt Appreciation Group.Click the following link to join and click on Request to join on the David Hunt Appreciation Group page.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=123931728208&ref=mf
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Comment by Mark Stevenson on September 18, 2009 at 11:02am
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Join the Act Now! Drama Company People Facebook page at:
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Something Wicked This Way Comes (Act Now! Drama Company - The Greenwich Playhouse 2009) Directed by David Hunt
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Something Wicked This Way Comes (Act Now! Drama Company - The Greenwich Playhouse 2009) Directed by David Hunt
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Something Wicked This Way Comes (Act Now! Drama Company - The Greenwich Playhouse 2009) Directed by David Hunt
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Something Wicked This Way Comes (Act Now! Drama Company - The Greenwich Playhouse 2009) Directed by David Hunt
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Something Wicked This Way Comes (Act Now! Drama Company - The Greenwich Playhouse 2009) Directed by David Hunt
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Something Wicked This Way Comes (Act Now! Drama Company - The Greenwich Playhouse 2009) Directed by David Hunt
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Comment by David Hunt on July 10, 2009 at 12:09pm
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Something Wicked This Way Comes (Act Now! Drama Company - The Greenwich Playhouse 2009) Directed by David Hunt
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