Lisa Nicoll Productions
Member's February Events
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ALL EVENTS TAKE PLACE AT PERTH THEATRE
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All membership queries email lisa@lisanicollproductions.co.uk
All Booking queries email ticketing@perththeatreandconcerthall.com
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**Where workshops are marked Free these are free for all signed up members. Where workshops are marked Free/£10 these will be free until a members 4 allocated complimentary workshop offer has been used up **Full day workshops have a reduced rate additional cost **
Saturday 15th & 22nd February 11 am – 4pm
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​Short Play Writing Workshop - Unlocking Ideas
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Lisa Nicoll
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Join Lisa for a two-day playwriting workshop to work on and develop a ten minute extract or short script. Suitable for all stages
An opportunity to develop a specific scene or short script and inspire any blocks in a play that you may be writing or are wanting to get off the ground.
This workshop is fun, informative and has a people centred approach. As a playwright Lisa has thought long and hard about where the stumbling blocks are when writing and the key thing is often to have someone or a group to support the work to move forward and keep motivated.
Lisa uses a human based approach and often links with how we ourselves act and live in our everyday life and respond and react to the work around us.
The best tool we have as a writer is ourselves & the world around us and this is what can make a story and play individual. There is often no original idea but is about the take on the world that a person has that makes their story different and this workshop will help support and unlock this!
An opportunity to hear excerpts of the work in a safe , development environment will be programmed for March/April.
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Suitable for all stages​​
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£25 total for both days
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Thursday 20th February 2.30 – 4.30pm
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Observed Rehearsal - The Rainbow
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Director Jo Newman
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Creative Hub Members will have the opportunity to sit in on a rehearsal of Perth Theatre’s Production of The Rainbow which has been adapted by Nicola Werenowska from D H Lawrences Classic Novel.
An opportunity to observe the rehearsal and chat to the team
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Email Lisa to reserve a space
https://jonewmandirector.com/about/
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Monday 24th February 2 – 3.30pm
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​Q & A with Christopher Glasgow – Director Perth Theatre and Concert Hall
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Join Lisa and Chris for a chat about Perth Theatre and the work that is going on in the theatre and the vision for supporting artists, the process of programming developing work with creatives and the overall landscape of theatre.
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Christopher has worked in arts programming, marketing and communications, fundraising and strategic development for the past 15 years. He joined Perth Theatre and Concert Hall in 2021 having previously held various positions at Cryptic, the Scottish Music Centre and Cheltenham Music Festival. He currently serves on the boards of Drake Music Scotland & PLUS Perth and was Vice Chair of the European Music Council Youth Committee.
Results-driven and with demonstrable success across artist and audience development, his greatest interests lie in exploring the many opportunities offered by data and new technology for increasing engagement with and support of new work. Previous projects and partnerships include Apple, The Arches, Arts & Humanities Research Council, Bang On A Can, Chamber Music Scotland, European Music Forum, Glasgow’s Concert Halls, Google, Inner Ear, International Music Council, Live Music Now, Nonclassical, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the University of Edinburgh Business School.
Christopher is a member of the International Society of the Performing Arts, The Grey Hill’s Creative Catalyst Advisory Board, and a Scottish Government Digital Champion (2020). Recognitions include SCVO Digital Difference commendation (2024); Scotland Prestige Award (2022/23) and Clear Channel & Campaign Magazine Outdoor Media Award (2021).
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Suitable for all creatives
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Free​
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Tuesday 25th February 11.30 – 3.30pm
Acting – How Not to be Polite!!
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Daniel Cameron
How can I make bolder acting choices? How can I take ownership over my own creativity? How do I get out of my own way? A fun and practical acting workshop exploring how to follow our creative impulses to make dynamic acting choices. Using an extract of text, we will explore playfulness, making the dramatic choice and finding the joy in acting.
Daniel is an actor, writer and director. As an actor has worked with York Theatre Royal, Citizens Theatre, Oran Mor and Teatro Elsinor Milan. In 2016 he was awarded the BAFTA Scotland New Talent Award for Acting Performance. He has written for BBC Radio Scotland and was part of Playwrights Studio Scotland’s Mentored Playwrights programme developing his play One Thousand Chickens. Daniel is also a prolific acting teacher and is Lecturer in Acting on the BA Musical Theatre programme at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Suitable for actors and also observational spaces for directors – to observe please email Lisa directly
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Free/£10
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Wednesday 26th February 1.30 – 3.30pm
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Life As Story
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Nicola McCartney
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This workshop will introduce Nicola’s applied theatre methods she uses when working with people’s real life stories to make theatre. She will unpack the principles and potential pitfalls, and share some exercises which you can use in your own work but also when working in an applied context as a playwright.
Writer Nicola McCartney is a playwright, director and dramaturg. She trained as a director with Citizen Theatre/ G&J Productions and Charabanc Theatre Company Belfast. Nicola was Artistic Director of lookout Theatre Company, Glasgow from 1992-2002, and has twice been an Associate Playwright of Playwrights Studio Scotland. She has worked for a host of organisations as a dramaturg including Vanishing Point and Stellar Quines/ Edinburgh International Festival. Her plays include: EASY, HERITAGE, HOME, STANDING WAVE: DELIA DERBYSHIRE IN THE 60S, RACHEL’S HOUSE, CAVE DWELLERS and LIFEBOAT. She co-authored HOW NOT TO DROWN with Dritan Kastrati (Thick Skin/ Tron/ Traverse) which won a Fringe First at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2019. She is also a social theatre practitioner and has worked with all sorts of groups including people within the criminal justice system in UK and USA, asylum seekers and refugees, drug users, survivors of domestic violence and childhood abuse. Nicola has worked with Traverse’s flagship outreach programme, Class Act, since 1997, taking it to Russia, Ukraine and India. In 2018 she was a recipient of a Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Olwen Wymark award for encouraging theatre in the UK. Nicola is currently Reader in Writing for Performance at University of Edinburgh where she leads the Masters programme in Playwriting.
Suitable for writers, actors and directors looking to write and create work
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Free/£10
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Thursday 27th February 10.30 – 3.30pm
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Script Reading and Sharing Day​
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​Have you written something? – Have you found an existing script that brings spark?
Today is an opportunity to bring together actors, writers and directors and hear excerpts of work that individuals would like to share and hear for future life whether new or established, large or small.
Come along as a performer to read, a writer to share or a director to facilitate
The aim is to start to build for a wider performance of work.
Lisa will facilitate the day
Send ideas for this session and register interest as an actor or director to lisa@lisanicollproductions.co.uk by Monday 17th of February.
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Friday 28th February 12.30 – 2pm
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Creative Lunch with Businesses
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Join us for a free creative lunch (a soup, sandwich and a hot drink)! and a chance to chat and network with everyone. This month we are inviting some local businesses and potential supporters of the hub to build things. An opportunity for you to network not just with colleagues but the wider business sector.
Drop Lisa an email if you can attend. All about the food and chat!
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Friday 28th February
10 - 2pm & 2pm - 5pm
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Research & Development Space Available
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An opportunity members to have access to space for development of ideas, reading of work, rehearsals.
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To book a slot for this please email detailing your project lisa@lisanicollproductions.co.uk
Where possible Lisa will attend part of the session.
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Throughout the year you can book a creative one to one session with Lisa for support and development in health and wellbeing and career path.
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To do this email lisa@lisanicollproductions.co.uk