Aftershocks, by Paul Brown, is a verbatim play composed after extensive research into the experiences of people who witnessed and were entrapped within the Newcastle Workers’ Club during and after the earthquake of 1989.
The project uses this text to explore the assertions made about acting in the previous sessions with TC (First Principles of Acting), that acting is a process of:
- identifying the thing other than one’s selfthat each moment is about;
- imagining that thing in detail (HISTORY);
- responding to that imaginary stimulus (PERSONALISATION).
Participants will choose a section of the text, and work toward a shared presentation of the chosen fragments. Everyone will be encouraged to explore the work in their first language, if they choose to do so, either as part of the process or as part of the presentation.
Terrence workshop will be Mondays and Tuesday, from June 5th to June 20th , 2023.
This Workshop is open only to tabHu students
Terence Crawford
Terence Crawford is an actor, author, playwright, director, and acting teacher.He began his theatre career in Newcastle, NSW, in 1980. Since graduating from NIDA, Terence has worked extensively in theatre, film and television, including many productions for the State Theatre Company of SA. His most recent productions are 1984, and Girl from the North Country, and recent screen credits include tv shows Stateless and Clickbait, and the film, Escape from Pretoria.
As a playwright, Terence has had work produced by Griffin Theatre Company, N Save ew Theatre, Theatre of Image and Sydney Theatre Company, in addition to work produced for radio and television.
Terence is among Australia’s most experienced and respected acting teachers. In 2005, Currency Press published Terence’s first book on acting, Trade Secrets, and in 2011 published his second, Dimensions of Acting: An Australian Approach.
Terence is the principal of Crawford Studio, and is an Adjunct Professor of Adelaide University’s J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice. He achieved a Masters with a dissertation of Chekhov, and a PhD with an ethnography of theatre practices.
Terence will deliver a 4 hour workshop in April on the foundations of acting in the realist tradition. Participants will explore links between acting and life-as-lived, and the artistic ‘nirvana’ on unselfconsciousness.
