Love Changes Everything

Intensive One-Day Workshop | In English | Doors open 9:30am | Duration: 7 hours (including lunch break)

Workshop Fee 150€

The workshop will consist in exploring how to embody the words of Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare. This will involve discovering the gestural life of the key words of the speech and expanding those gestures to almost dance-like movements. We will then investigate how those expanded movements can carry sound and then weave this sound-world back into the speech with the hope of bringing the sonnet to life in each participant in ways they could not have predicted.

Participants will need to wear close clothing to move in.

The workshop will be led by Ed Woodall.

Ed Woodall is an actor, award-winning director and teacher. 

He studied with Jacques Lecoq and has worked in theatre, film and TV ever since. 

Ed’s credits span the key roles at the Royal Shakespeare Company, stints with Complicite, Kneehigh and Improbable theatres. 

Films include Master and Commander, Enigma and Emma. 

Een Hond Begraven won Ed a Time Out award in 2001, and since then Ed has taught innovation in theatre at Rose Bruford, East 15, The Oxford School of Drama a many more. 

Ed is also an experienced Feldenkrais practitioner and recently Ed has had his book Shakespeare and Lecoq published by Arden/Bloomsbury. 

Ed will warm the participants up bodily and vocally prior to leading them through a journey of embodied acting which is featured in Ed’s recent book, Shakespeare and Lecoq.

Participants are advised to read Ed's book, especially Chapter 5, before they come to the workshop, but if this is not possible, we will sell some at reduced price on the day.

Ed Woodall will also be teaching the Masterclass: Shakespeare & Lecoq in March.