TTW announces final 2017 workshops

The TTW is offering 12-week acting classes for children, teens and new actors and a tenweek course in How to Read and Write Poetry.

Participants will learn about improvisation, playback theatre, musical theatre, stage combat and stagecraft (lighting, scene and costume design).

Throughout the course, students and instructors will work together to construct and produce a presentation which will be performed at the end of term showcase. The students are encouraged to be actively involved with all aspects of the production, including costume/ set design and creation, script writing, direction and performance.

Facilitators include Afi Ford-Hopson, who has been teaching and facilitating social and theatre- based programmes for the past 12 years and playwright, poet and fiction writer Dr Raymond Ramcharitar.

The Children’s Theatre Workshop will run from September 9 to November 25 on Saturdays between 10 am and 1 pm. The workshop is open to children seven to 12 years. The Teen Theatre Workshop will run for the same period as the children’s, also on Saturdays from 1.30 pm to 4.30 pm. It is open to 13 to 17-years-olds. The New Actors Workshop runs from September 5 to November 21 on Tuesdays from 5.30 pm to 8.30 pm for 18 years and up.

The ten-week poetry programme runs from September 6 to November 15 on Wednesdays from 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm. The course will lead students to answer the questions: What is poetry? What is good poetry? How does a reader tell good from bad? And how does one begin to write poetry? This will be the final arts workshops put on by the TT W at its current location at corner of Jerningham Avenue and Norfolk Streets, Belmont. Fund-raising efforts are continuing for the move to the new premises in Woodbrook.

For more info: trinidadtheatre@ gmail.com and Facebook