IMALIS
Returning to the Source of Ancient Hellenic Theatre
PAUL GOODWIN
Paul Goodwin is a teacher, director and performer with over 35 years experience in professional theatre making. As an actor he has worked at the Royal Shakespeare Company, National Theatre, Cheek by Jowl and, as well as repertory theatres within the UK, has performed internationally in France, U.S.A., Germany, Sweden, Spain and Russia.
He has directed numerous Classical plays including: Oedipus Tyrannos, Antigone, Twelfth Night, Iphegenia at Aulis, Elektra, Orsetes, and A Midsummer Nights Dream.
He is currently Course Leader on the MA Acting course at Drama Centre London, as well as running his own theatre company “Uncluttered Classics”. He has an MA in Voice Studies from the Central School of Speech and Drama, where he also trained as an actor from 1982-85.
The MA Acting at Drama Centre London, is an intensive 45 week conservatoire Actor training - 8 weeks of which are spent in Moscow. at the Vakhtangov Institute. Skills classes in Voice, Movement, Neutral Mask, Ballet, Period Dance, Speech and Acting underpin a programme of scene study, which embraces the Greeks through to Contemporary drama, with particular emphasis on Euripides, Shakespeare and Chekhov.
Paul has tutored on the BA Acting course as well as the Young Actors Summer School at R.A.D.A., MA Voice Studies Course at Central, Actors Centre London and Bloomsbury Theatre Shakespeare Summer School. As part of Professional Development with the Text, Voice and Artist Development Department at the Royal Shakespeare Company, he worked on voice & text with actors on principal & understudy roles, as well as supporting Cicely Berry in workshops for young directors, Individual & group work with John Barton, as well as Leading text workshops for the Shakespeare Birthplace trust.
His collaboration with Vasilios Arabos and Imalis, comes from a shared interest in connecting the contemporary and classical traditions, as well as approaches to verse drama in the tradition of Shakespeare with the new approaches being developed by Imalis in the Ancient Hellenic repertoire. His longstanding experience in the English classics from RSC, Cheek by Jowl presents an invaluable resource of techniques which he is thrilled to be bringing to the Ancient Greek.
What does it mean to be a good verse speaker? What tools does the actor need? Where and how do intellect, poetical rigour, sense and meaning become something more embodied, where “text” becomes “language”, altogether more profound and with deeper resonances. Paul’s practical voice & text sessions address these questions. Form, Structure, Rhythm, Thought, Breath, Tone, Articulation and Language, will be explored as each participant engages with great dramatic text.
This work exposes both the actor and the text, and the actor needs a voice and a body that can respond to the demands placed on it to bring heightened poetic dramatic language alive for the modern listener. It is the marrying of this text/language/voice work, with our post-Stanislavskian need for “believability” under any given circumstances, that is my main focus as a teacher.
He has directed numerous Classical plays including: Oedipus Tyrannos, Antigone, Twelfth Night, Iphegenia at Aulis, Elektra, Orsetes, and A Midsummer Nights Dream.
He is currently Course Leader on the MA Acting course at Drama Centre London, as well as running his own theatre company “Uncluttered Classics”. He has an MA in Voice Studies from the Central School of Speech and Drama, where he also trained as an actor from 1982-85.
The MA Acting at Drama Centre London, is an intensive 45 week conservatoire Actor training - 8 weeks of which are spent in Moscow. at the Vakhtangov Institute. Skills classes in Voice, Movement, Neutral Mask, Ballet, Period Dance, Speech and Acting underpin a programme of scene study, which embraces the Greeks through to Contemporary drama, with particular emphasis on Euripides, Shakespeare and Chekhov.
Paul has tutored on the BA Acting course as well as the Young Actors Summer School at R.A.D.A., MA Voice Studies Course at Central, Actors Centre London and Bloomsbury Theatre Shakespeare Summer School. As part of Professional Development with the Text, Voice and Artist Development Department at the Royal Shakespeare Company, he worked on voice & text with actors on principal & understudy roles, as well as supporting Cicely Berry in workshops for young directors, Individual & group work with John Barton, as well as Leading text workshops for the Shakespeare Birthplace trust.
His collaboration with Vasilios Arabos and Imalis, comes from a shared interest in connecting the contemporary and classical traditions, as well as approaches to verse drama in the tradition of Shakespeare with the new approaches being developed by Imalis in the Ancient Hellenic repertoire. His longstanding experience in the English classics from RSC, Cheek by Jowl presents an invaluable resource of techniques which he is thrilled to be bringing to the Ancient Greek.
What does it mean to be a good verse speaker? What tools does the actor need? Where and how do intellect, poetical rigour, sense and meaning become something more embodied, where “text” becomes “language”, altogether more profound and with deeper resonances. Paul’s practical voice & text sessions address these questions. Form, Structure, Rhythm, Thought, Breath, Tone, Articulation and Language, will be explored as each participant engages with great dramatic text.
This work exposes both the actor and the text, and the actor needs a voice and a body that can respond to the demands placed on it to bring heightened poetic dramatic language alive for the modern listener. It is the marrying of this text/language/voice work, with our post-Stanislavskian need for “believability” under any given circumstances, that is my main focus as a teacher.