The Shakespeare Actor’s Craft: Term 2 Acting Course: SOLD OUT

Weekly Term 2 Acting Course for 19 - 24 yr olds

If you are a young or emerging actor aged 19-24 or keen to become an actor, this course gives you access to unlock the skills and techniques to perform Shakespeare at Pop-up Globe.

The tools and techniques offered in the training are those utilised in professional contexts and the entire course is built for students who wish to hone their acting skill to a degree where they could confidently audition for tertiary acting institutions and professional theatre.

We will focus on developing the actor’s craft. From examining text on the page to instilling the physical and vocal practices necessary for a performer to fill a venue such as the Pop-Up Globe. Much of our training will occur on the main stage, culminating in a performance open to the company’s families and friends.

Information about our facilitator

Patrick Carroll is a graduate of Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School. While studying he played in Strindberg's A Dreamplay and Shakespeare's Measure for Measure and As You Like It. Prior to that he worked with Long Cloud Youth Theatre and travelled to London's Globe Theatre as part of the Young Shakespeare Company with Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand.

He played Thomas Klopper in Silo's The Book of Everything in 2015/2016, and over those years also performed in The Court Theatre's Alice and Wonderland, Indian Ink's The Elephant Thief and Bright Orange Walls' productions of The Angry Brigade and Twelfth Night.

Patrick first appeared on the Pop-up Globe stage as Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice in Auckland and Sydney.