
Hello Friends!
I am Prashant and I welcome you to this interesting Program ‘Theatre for Teens’.
About me - As an actor, I have been trained by the professors of National School of Drama, Theatre Guru Neeraj Kabi and Japanese Art Teacher Yuki Illias in Mime and Movements. After completing approximately 1000+ episodes on television, 200+ Advertising commercials, Theatre Plays and Films, I went on to create Drama workshops for over 10000+ individuals including children.
This is an invitation to all the children aged between 12-16 years to come and explore theatre as an art in this Online Program which helps them to learn:
Basics of Theatre and Acting,
Basics of Stage and Performance,
Emotions, Feelings and its impact on Acting
Miming and Movements,
Reliving your life incidents and making performance authentic
Script Analysis and Monologue Performance.
Come and have fun!
Welcome to Theatre!!!! Everything happening around you in your school, your home, on the streets, on television, even what you think, what you feel, what you say, even what you don't say…everything is Theatre!!!! In this section students learn
the basics of Theatre,
what constitutes Theatre and
how to recognise what and what not comes under Theatre.
The most important thing we need to know when we want to learn theatre and performance art, is to observe the soul of the character. There is nothing mystical about it. Students learn observing and intuitively defining themselves, people around them and their favourite characters. This recognising ability of the soul of the character becomes one of most important ability while playing various characters.
Students learn:
Physical body movements,
Theatre Physical Exercises,
Yoga asanas related to Theatre
and other exercises
which build endurance, flexibility and strength and are imperative for a good actor. This helps the person to easily adapt themselves into characters.
Improved breathing means improved voice & body movements which helps in enhancing the character greatly. Breath forms the foundation of a great performance. Now how to improve our breathing quality, intensity and depth. All these elements are needed to make our movements, voice, expressions and performance powerful and impactful.
Specified Theatrical Voice Exercises are introduced in this section which will help students to enhance the quality of their voice and know the impact it creates on performance and character playing. Our vocal chords need workout like our body and this is where we start to enhance our vocal chords for better voice. And we also introduce you to funny and interesting 'Tongue Twisters'. Come, lets have fun!!
Face is the essence of an Actor's performance because that's where our eyes go. How about creating specialised exercises for our face to emote the best of our feelings?! Know how to divide your face into various sections and work on face muscles to get the most authentic expression? We will show you how.
Lion Roar is a combination of breathing, voice and face exercises which helps the students to learn focus, clarity and power of expression with a tinge of meditation. A powerful session to go ahead and be like a lion on the stage
Introduction to Emotions, kinds of emotions and their impact in Stage Performance. Students will be learning to:
Get details of all kinds of emotions
their impact in an authentic performance
While we are learning about various emotions we carry within us, prime foundation of any authentic performance is being honest to expressing your emotions. We start with one emotion here, learn how to revisit our life incidents and relive those emotions to use them in Acting performance.
Students will be learning to:
learn basics of emotions and their related incidents
recall prime emotions and their related incidents to start with
start to relive emotions for characterisation
This is where we go in detail with expressing different kinds of Emotions and Feelings. The reliving of emotions becomes the foundation of Theatre and Acting. This is what students learn in this section, go in depth with their emotions and learn to express them in this scientific way of Theatre.
Breathing Cycles is a technical way to alter our emotions and bring great shift in acting performances. Learn types of Breathing Cycles and how to use them to bring variation in your performance.
Detailing becomes the most important element in any performance worldwide. Detailing of characterisation, emotion performed, costumes, body language and even holding a glass of water - Detailing is everything for a great performance and this is what students learn in this session.
There are times all the props are not available during auditions or performances. This is the time we need to mime and miming needs to look absolutely real. So, students will learn the basics of Miming and start putting them in action in their current life to make their performance real and impactful.
Spontaneous and intuitive body movement is essential for a flowing performance. We introduce them to
listening and grasping music
5 Elements to absorb music
body movements based on music
using them in performances
This body movement section is very peculiar because we introduce students to Theatre Walk. A walk which shares 5 aspects of Theatre Walk and how it is defines the discipline this art requires. This can be easily practised anywhere in home or outside while preparing for performances.
THIS SCRIPT SHOULD BECOME YOUR SECOND NATURE because when you go on to perform on the script you cannot afford to trying to remember lines. So the first thing you do as to make script your second nature. This is the section where you learn how to make scripts your second nature and make your performance authentic and genuine.
We start working on the script in this section. You will learn:
how to analyse the script
how to check the five elements of script breaking in order to get the best results
start working on those five elements in the given script
Pauses and Stress Words become the two most important element for Script delivery after Emotions. Time for students to learn these 2 aspects with examples from the script. Keep your script ready in front of your and start working on these elements side by side.
Stage is a place every artist wants to be, but is it that simple? Here in this section, students learn:
what it takes to be on stage
do's and dont's of being on stage
brief of technicalities of Stage area, lighting, sound, character while one decides to be on stage
While till now we have learnt numerous aspects of Theatre and Acting, it is time for us
to culminate all our learning
Revisit all the points we have learnt till now
Know one most important factor to being an impactful performance on stage
Get ready to perform
Theatre for Teens
This Theatre and Acting Learning Program is for students aged 12-16 years and who would like to:
enhance their confidence and focus in life using Theatre
reduce their stage fear and anxiety
improve their social skills and reduce shyness
explore the field of Theatre and Acting
The teacher in this Program, Prashant Chawla, is a student trained by the professors of National School of Drama, Theatre Guru Neeraj Kabi and Japanese Art Teacher Yuki Illias in Mime and Movements. After completing approximately 1000+ episodes on television, 200+ Advertising commercials, Theatre Plays and Films, he went on to create Drama workshops for over 10000+ individuals including children in last 6 years.
In this Program, students will learn the basics of Theatre, Acting, Emotions, Expressing Yourself, Scripts and what goes into delivering a good performance on stage.