Date: July 18th
Location: The Actors' Guild at Raindance, 10 Craven Street, WC2N 5PE
Time: 17.00 - 20.00

This workshop enables students to learn and apply elements of Michael Chekhov's imagination driven technique in the process of building a character. Actors are to read Shakespeare's a Midsummer Night's Dream prior, and learn a speech or at least a few lines of a speech, of their choice. The class is physical and members will work barefoot (or in socks), so please wear loose clothing, bring water, a notebook and a copy of the play. Michael Chekhov was a Russian-American actor, director, and theatre practitioner. Constantin Stanislavski referred to him as his most brilliant student. He was a nephew of the playwright Anton Chekhov and author of On the Technique of Acting, and the abridged version To the Actor, which was reissued in 2002 with a foreword by Simon Callow. Although mainly a stage actor, he made a few notable appearances on film, perhaps most memorably as the Freudian analyst in Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound. Peri Olufunwa graduated with a masters in Actor Training and Coaching from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. It was here that she fell in love with the Michael Chekhov technique, due to its emphasis on imagination and creative freedom. Peri Trained as an actor at RADA.