Session Three. "Hitler has only got one ball"

This session was all about the voice.

Due to illness we were fewer on the ground this week, this wasn't a bad thing as it meant we got to learn names and to split into different sized groups. We even had new swanky badges this week!

We started with trying to connect with our diaphragms, the large muscle which helps with projection and support for your voice. We tried various techniques from breathing through to silly and somewhat rude songs! (I very much hope to reprise these songs again)

We were concentrating on the meaning and intention behind words. How do you express meaning or a story if you are not allowed to say what you want? To look at this we were given random lines to say, "Hitler has only got one ball", "Just put some germoline on it", "Why is a black box orange" were some of the lines to be heard across the room.

This was then developed in to group work, again only using that one line, but then having to create a mini scene to present to the other group, who had to guess what you were portraying. Within our groups we created sound tracks, noise effects as well as the story lines to be acted out.

For me this week seemed harder in part than others. It took tie for people to warm up to only using one line, but once they had warmed up to the idea and played around with it a little some great bits of creativity were seen.

Once again it was a pleasure to be working with such a dynamic and broad range of people.

Second Session Success

So it appears we didn't manage to put everyone off with our first session, people actually returned!

This session we took turns reading aloud various poems that we had all brought along, from Seamus Heaney,  A.A. Milne, Roald Dhal to Margret Atwood to name a few. It was a pleasure just to hear such a range of poetry being vocalised and expressed, for me I could have gone home at that point as the poetry reading was a joy in itself.

We then worked in small groups exploring how to interpret our poems in to a tableaux. We showed these human pictures to others to see if they could guess which poems we were presenting.

We ended the session with interpretations of nursery rhymes. Its amazing how a very dramatic Humpty Dumpty or Jack and Jill, can have you in stitches!

Happy New Year!

What will you be doing in the new year to get your creative juices flowing?
Only two more weeks until D day.
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Hope to see you on Thursday evening at our theatre workshop group for adults, (anyone aged over 20.) Lets have fun, explore, stimulate and evolve using improvisation, voice, words, text, play reading, devising, physical theatre, mine and performance techniques.

There is a small non refundable cost/deposit of £20 for the five weeks (that is only £4 a week!) preferably paid in advance to cover room hire.

Please get in touch to secure your place. Either messenger on Facebook or email us at emptyspacetheatreworkshop@gmail.com

One Month To Go!

Empty Space theatre workshop group is up and running, it’s happening!!!!

One month to go!!

Starts Thursday 16^th January 2020, the first in a series of five week blocks.

7.30 pm – 9.30

Castle Hill Community Centre, IP1 6DG

There will be a small non-refundable cost/deposit of £20 for the five weeks, (that’s only £4 a week!) preferably paid in advance to cover room hire.

Please get in touch to secure your place, either sign up on face book event or email us at

emptyspacetheatreworkshop@gmail.com

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Let's share skills, have fun. This could include improvisation, voice, words, text, play reading, devising, physical theatre, mime, and performance techniques.

Coming soon

In Ipswich
Empty Space
A Theatre workshop group for adults   - not am dram, not musicals, not Alan Ayckbourn.
Aimed at all of us who did performing arts in our youth and then went on and got real jobs, children and other lives.... those of us who were passionate in our youth, but now have no outlet.
A space for creation, play, and performance.
Join us and start exploring again.
We will be running in five week blocks with a couple of weeks off in between starting 
Thursday 16th January 2020 at 7.30 pm
at Castle Hill Community Centre IP1 6DG


 There will be a small cost is to cover room hire.