IN ASSOCIATION WITH ACTORS SPACE BERLIN
LIBERATE YOUR ACTING THROUGH COMEDY
A Practical Course
Liberate your acting through comedy.
When you are fully present with another person, something alive and funny naturally emerges. This course gives you the tools to find that, keep finding it scene after scene, and take your acting to the next level.
WHO IS TEACHING IT
Trevor Lock is an international actor, comedian and director with over 25 years of experience across stage, television and film. He is a British Comedy Award-winning, BAFTA-nominated actor for his work on Star Stories (Channel 4), and has written and directed seven plays for stage and BBC Radio.
His theatre work includes What You Really Want (The Pleasance, Edinburgh and London), described as part sitcom, part rom-com, part philosophical treatise and awarded four stars by Edinburgh Evening News; Something You Should Know (Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh), described as funny, moving and clever by The Scotsman; and All By Myself (Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh), described as utterly improbable, absolutely entertaining by The Independent.
Alongside his performance work, he is a Visiting Tutor at Actors Space Berlin, where he teaches actors how to work with action, behaviour and live interaction rather than relying on text or pre-planned ideas.
"A masterclass in comedy performance"
The Scotsman ★★★★★
WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS IN THE SESSIONS
This is a practical, on-your-feet course.
Each session is built around simple acting games and short scenes. The exercises have clear rules that force real interaction, so you can't fall back on habits or try to be funny. Actors are welcome to bring audition pieces and scenes they are working on.
The sessions usually start with exercises or games, for example you might be asked to play a looking game or a touching game either in pairs or as a group and then discover how playing the same game in the scene you're working on transforms it.
You will work in pairs or as a group, sometimes with a script, sometimes without. Each class focuses on learning one skill, one game or approach and then putting it into practice in a scene.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN AND PRACTISE
By the end of the course, you will learn and practise how to:
* get out of your head and into action
* stop planning and respond to what's actually happening
* affect the other actor instead of performing at them
* stay in the scene when it gets difficult instead of collapsing
* know when to stay with something and when to change it, and do it
* stop hiding behind the lines and make something happen
* use your body and space to shift what's going on
* make your thinking visible without explaining it
* recognise when a scene is dead and bring it back to life
WHY PEOPLE ENJOY IT
The sessions are fast and focused.
Because the exercises are simple but demanding, things start to happen quickly. A scene that felt flat suddenly comes alive. Something that wasn't working starts working without you forcing it.
People enjoy it because it's a relief. You stop trying to be good, and things start working.
FROM PARTICIPANTS IN TREVOR'S WORKSHOPS
Part school headmaster, part genius funnyman. He sees the funny where you don't and teases it out of you, arming you with tools for the rest of your career. Aideen McQueen
Resuscitated my comedy career. Richard Walker, Amsterdam
Gave me a platform to be brave. Leroy, Belgrade
FORMAT & PRICING
10 Classes, 3 hours each, every Tuesday from 6 to 9pm
From 26th May
€30 per class/€250 for the full course