Talks & Workshops
Warwick Arts Centre holds a range of talks and workshops each season, suitable for all ages, to support the programme of events.
Out of Joint
Top Girls
14+
Wed 18-Fri 20 Jan 7.30pm
Sat 21 Jan 2.30pm & 7.30pm
Theatre
Schools/colleges £11 (limited availability)
2hrs 20 mins (inc 2 intervals)
One of the seminal plays of the twentieth century, Top Girls flashes with razor-sharp wit and ingenious theatricality.
Thatcher’s England: hard-nosed, go-getting businesswoman Marlene is hosting a dinner party to celebrate her promotion to MD of the Top Girls Employment Agency. Her guests, all powerful women from myth and history, make for an extraordinary gathering.
Top Girls becomes a muscular, moving study of success – the compromises Marlene had made and, chillingly, what happens to those left behind.
Max Stafford-Clark directed the premiere of Top Girls in 1982. His brand new production, of a play that now celebrated as a modern classic, was a hugely acclaimed hit in the West End in 2011.
‘‘A piece of theatrical history. Genius.’‘ Daily Mail
“Directed with absolute mastery by Max Stafford-Clark. A classis play in a clssic prodution.” Independent
“Terrifyingly topical.” Guardian
Learning opportunity
Meet Max Stafford-Clark
Wed 18 Jan
FREE
Stay after the performance to meet Max Stafford-Clark – the director of both this production and the original production in 1982.
Top Girls Workshop
Thu 19 Jan, 10am
Theatre
FREE for students with tickets for the show (Subsidised by Warwick Arts Centre Education Department)
This practical workshop on the set of Top Girls will take students through the company’s process of taking Carly Churchill’s masterpiece from page to stage. Students will practice company rehearsal rechniques such as playing cards, status and auctioning.
To book this workshop please contact Sadie Newman on 024 7657 4786.
During Top Girls rehearsal period the copmany will compile a resource pack that will be free to download from their website from early January.
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Audio interview with Top Girls designer Tim Shortall.
Daily Life Ltd Presents
Bobby Baker’s Mad Gyms & Kitchens
12+
Wed 22- Sat 25 Feb 7.45pm
Helen Martin Studio
Schools/Colleges £7.50
1hrs 20 mins (no interval)
Wend your way to wellness!
Prepare to be surprised and delighted, moved and enlightened as Bobby Baker demonstrates how she achieves that ultimate ‘wellbeing’ factor. From working-out to chilling out, Bobby’s wellness roadshow investigaes how to get better at feeling better – cup of tea included.
Developed out of her own experiences of illness and hard-won recovery and designed in collaboration with sculptor Charlie Whittuck, this brand new show contains an extraordinary set of fantastical ‘recovery’ apparatus and promises surprises galore.
“I would go without food for a week just to get a ticket for her next show.” The Observer
Learning Opportunity
Thu 23 Feb
Meet Bobby Baker
Stay behind after the performance and talk to Bobby Baker about her work and what inspires her.
Blanca Li
Elektro Kif
All Ages
Tue 6 & wed 7 Mar 7.30pm
Theatre
Schools/Colleges £9 (limited availability)
60 mins (no interval)
You’ve never seen anything like this before.
Electro is an urban streetdance style – a dazzling mix of breaking, disco, vogue, popping and locking. Blanca Li takes it off the streets of Paris mixes it up with some theatre, contemporary dance and an amazing soundtrack and gives you Elektro Kif.
Elektro Kif is a show about the hopes and fears, friendships, fights and rivalries of an all male cast of eight exceptional young electro dancers, following them through a typical day at college. It’s funny, fast, colourful and anarchic and features an exhilarating especially composed soundtrack by Tao Gutierrez, mixing techno with electro house, afrobeat, sampling and classical music.
Learning Opportunities
In-School Workshop
Age 14+
Wed 7 Mar
Max 25 Students
FREE for students with tickets for the show (subsidised by Warwick Arts Centre’s Education Department)
Dancers from the Blanca Li Company will lead this workshop to introduce young people to Electro – a dance genre little known in the UK. The students will learn Electro moves and its history, choreography their own sequences and learn motifs from_ Elektro Kif _
Only one workshop is available.
To book the workshop, please contact Sadie newman on 024 7657 4786 once you have booked your tickets for the show.
Education Resource Guide
FREE
Every school or college bringing a party to see _Elektro Kif _will receive a resource guide to support and deepen students’ appreciation and understanding of the show and the Electro style. Availble from mid-December.
A copy of the Education Diary which includes details of all these talks and workshops can be obtained from the Education Department on 024 7657 4786 or by e-mailing Sadie Newman.
View Warwick Arts Centre’s current family events and workshops, including Saturday Arts Clubs
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