Brave Mirror Theatre Company Workshop at Woodbridge School
Last week, Brave Mirror Theatre Company visited School delivering a workshop to students from our Year 7 to 9 Scholars and Enrichment programme. Co-founder of Brave Mirror and OW Jamie Saul, created a fantastic session where participants were given the prompt ‘a surprise’, and tasked with writing, rehearsing, and performing short scripts.
Working together, it was a thoroughly enjoyable workshop during which they collaborated and supported each other, being creative and having great fun!
Reviewing the workshop, Year 9’s Rufus shared the following:
I think I speak for everyone that was lucky enough to attend the workshop with Brave Mirror Theatre Company, when I say we absolutely loved it!
It was interesting how Jamie made us warm up our voices with certain games and exercises; this was useful and enjoyable at the same time. I also really enjoyed how he let us split off into smaller groups to devise our own performance, inspired by the theme ‘a surprise’.
He split this devising exercise into different parts. The first part, coming up with the storyline, the second, writing our script and the third, bringing in physicality. At the end of the session, we all shared our performances, enjoying everybody’s creative flare and celebrating what they had come up with.
As a Drama student, I think it is so helpful to have opportunities like this to learn about different techniques and ways to help pursue your Drama ability to a higher level.
