SUNDAYS ARE FUNDAYS

Be an Actor for a Day© will be running its Sunday sessions in 2019 as follows:

17 March

30 June

29 Sept

8 December

You Know You Want to!

Whether you have acting experience or none at all, come spend a unique and exciting day with us.  Enjoy a fun-filled theatre experience as we prepare performance pieces with scripts in hand (no learning of lines) for an end-of-day pop-up audience.

Times:

09h00 – 16h30

Cost:  

R400 pp – (Booking 2+ R350 pp) -includes tea/coffee

Please Note:  We need a minimum number of TEN participants

What to Bring?

Comfortable clothing, water and a light lunch

For more information contact either Coleen or Celia.

Coleen

072 120 5645

coleenvanstaden@gmail.com

​Contact Celia:

celiamusikanth@gmail.com

Our actors for a day who joined us on 9 Dec 2018 – our last session of 2018 had an awesome time with us. They found their voices, flexed their muscles, conquered their fears and entertained an enthusiastic audience.

Be an Actor for a Day is a popular theatre activity for all ages and Circle Productions can tailor-make sessions and add value to a host of corporate and training programmes.

Check out images below from Be an Actor for a Day 9 December 2018.

 

 

BE AN ACTOR FOR A DAY©  – SUNDAY 9 DECEMBER

So, who is joining us?   Be part of the motley for a day of fun, laughter, performance, applause – a unique experience with Circle Productions and the Masque Theatre.  The silly season is upon us, so give yourself a gift or treat your family and friends to something they will never forget.

 

Programme: Sunday 9 December 2018

   

VENUE:                                             Masque Theatre, 37 Main Rd, Muizenberg  10h00 – 13h00                       Fun exercises, auditions, stagecraft, rehearsals 13h00 – 13h45                         Light lunch  14h00 –  15h00                       Rehearse on foyer stage 15h00  – 16h00                       Costume Bits & Bobs 16h00 – 17h00                         Performance – with scripts in hand (no learning of                                                            lines) Cost:   Single Booking R600 pp (all incl.)    Group booking 2+  R400 (all incl.)  The Minimum number of bookings required to run the programme is FIVE The Maximum number for the day is FIFTEEN  Be an Actor for a Day©  Check out our video Be an Actor for a Day page and Image Gallery and feel free to contact us for more information for this unique experience with a local group of actors in a fun-filled day.

Final days of rehearsal now as we bring all the elements together to create a wonderful show that is both entertaining and educational!   What does it mean to be 120 years old and how has the school and its environment changed?

We have packed a lot into just 80 minutes and we look forward to having an audience on Thursday.

This is the cast rehearsing Shosholoza – a song of mineworkers having to travel to and from their homes in Africa to work on the mines.  In the nineties it became a song that celebrated a unified SA in the sporting world.

So, rehearsals are hotting up and our learners are enjoying this journey of discovery – both of the school’s heritage and legacy AND of their own talents and the joy of performance.

We are excited to have a past learner, Chantal Stanfield, join us for the show to perform her “hot off the press” number, Walk it Off.   Our friends have been wonderful in supporting this show – and we say a big thank you to Trish and Annie of the Dance Project who have done our choreography for us.

Chantal has been learning the choreography long distance – check out the video clip here.

Awesome!

 

 

 

 

So, we continue this incredible journey with the learners from Muizenberg High School – as we rehearse this wonderful celebratory show that has three performances – October 18,19,20.

120 years of Muizenberg School – so much heritage and history, colour and inspiration.

This is an Edwardian beach scene – yes… the warm waters of Muizenberg for a bit of “splashy splashy”.

And some on the spot choreography from the MHS kids – Freedom is Coming from Sarafina – just a taste of that freedom!  We are proud of them.  #MHS120

 

Some of the Cherry Orchard Cast joined us for an afternoon of  Be an Actor for a Day unique activities and exercises to add to their basket of skills and performance preparation.

Get into the act!

• Exercises for actors
• Acting from the neck down
• Make me Believe you
• Dialogue dynamics

We had an awesome time and the actors left us with some new skills to bring to this Chekov piece which will be at the Masque Theatre in November 2018.

Chekov meets Shakespeare – as the cast exchange some classic insults and terms of endearment as well!