Workshop

Auditions can be tricky things – what monologue to pick, how to prepare, how to put yourself across in the studio, and with little to no feedback given it is difficult to know where to go next. This workshop aims to give everyone involved not only the tools to feel confident when auditioning, but to...

Our first workshop of 2023! Join improv king, Paul Birch, and explore short-form improvisation, familiar to anyone who has watched an episode of Whose Line Is It Anyway. Taking the techniques of improvisation teachers such as Spolin, Johnson and Close, discover ways to create characters and build comic scenes without ever worrying if they are funny...

Building on her previous workshops with YSCP, director and writer, Bridget Foreman, will guide you through the process of directing a short 30 minute play by a contemporary playwright. Participants will be asked to think in advance about approaches to staging and conceptualising a really exciting and challenging text - key skills for a director,...

Do you fancy a go at improvisation with the opportunity to join our fledgling improv group, Unsettled? Jump start your improv skills in our upcoming workshop, led by by local expert Paul Birch. Paul is a playwright, practitioner and performer. He has made work with and for Audible, Birmingham Rep, Bristol Old Vic, City Varieties,...

We're thrilled to be hosting a play reading of local writer Jacqueline Everett's play, Got To Hide Your Love Away, which was long listed for The Bush script reading scheme. The play reading will take place in the upstairs room of the Black Swan Inn in York at 7.30pm on Tuesday 9 January 2024. We're...