On Tuesday StageOne had a very productive singing workshop and everything that StageOne had learnt about singing, for example standing up straight, deep breaths, and projection was put into practice.

Sue led another memorable Core Skills and Sketch Acting workshop by introducing us to a sketch about being prepared and unprepared. In this case there was a fully prepared and geared up mountaineer and a wannabe mountaineer who thought he didn’t need all the gear. It was a narrated sketched with some very funny actions and plenty of ideas can be used to perform this.

(John acting as the fully prepared and geared up mountaineer |
Dave acting as the wannbe mountaineer)

This week Malcolm lead an exciting workshop where we discussed directing and observed Malcolm direct members in performing three sketches. StageOne also had a guest leader, Ian who is the resisdent organist for Folkestone Methodist Church. StageOne has a fun time singing their hearts away to some classics such as "Consider Yourself" and others.

This week is another lon awaited comedy workshop with Roger Smith and Adam Grannell. We will be exploring what comedy is and taking a lokk at some of the contempory comedy outthere today both on TV and radio, and how we can apply some of the knowledge into out drama on stage. But thats not all!

We will also have another exciting workshop with Ian and exploring singing on stage and looking back at some of the singing skills used in the Alice In Wonderland Production.

Another singing workshop with Ian covering the very basics of singing which can help you the stage. Ian's advice has been really helpful and has can help with speaking and acting parts out on stage with regard to making yourself heard.

We also have our first workshop about Opera, with David. We will be looking at a small selection of Operas.

We had a very very exciting singing work shop with Ian. It just proves that we can infact sing, though some say they can't.

We also looked at Operas including Carmen, Aide and the Magic Whistle and became familiar with some classical music numbers. Very interesting.