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JMK South West – Programme Dates

September 11, 2018 by Katherine Rigg

Directors of Salisbury, Southampton, Reading and surrounding areas! We’ve got some great free opportunities coming up over the next few months at your local venues. Scroll down for details and how to sign up!

JMK Director’s Residency with Shôn Dale Jones

Friday 21 (11-5pm) and Saturday 22 September (10-4pm)
White Room Studio, Salisbury Arts Centre

A two day workshop exploring the practice and work of theatre-maker Shôn Dale-Jones, who’s shows include The Duke, Me and Robin Hood and The Wonderful World of Hugh Hughes.

Shôn’s work plays on the line between reality and fiction, often exploring personal experience as a way into universal truths.

The workshop will explore how to discover and develop stories through a mixture of writing and improvisation.

Shôn is has won two Scotsman Fringe Firsts, a Total Theatre Award, a BBC AUDIO DRAMA AWARD for Best Scripted Comedy Drama and has recently been nominated for a Prix Europa for Best European Radio Drama for The Duke.

This workshop will coincide with Shôn’s shows The Duke (21 September) and Me and Robin Hood (22 September) tickets £5 in the Salberg at Salisbury Playhouse. (You don’t have to see the shows to attend the workshop)

BOOK YOUR FREE WORKSHOP PLACE HERE

Please note this residency is taking place at Salisbury Arts Centre, Bedwin Street, Salisbury, SP1 3UT, not Salisbury Playhouse.

Workshop with director Simon Harvey
Nuffield Southampton Theatres

Saturday 20th October (2-5pm)

Simon Harvey is the Artistic Director of o-region, a Cornwall based Theatre and Film production company, Associate Director at Kneehigh and Associate Artist of Hall for Cornwall.The workshop will look at the practical process of building an ensemble, collaborating with a creative team and general approaches to making theatre and telling stories, with a particular emphasis on the process of making FUP (his current touring show, which comes to Nuffield Southampton Theatres in October). To book your free place email nik@jmktrust.org

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The JMK Trust is kindly supported by The Martin Bowley Charitable Trust, Arts Council England, The Katie Bradford Arts Trust, The Cockayne Foundation, The London Community Foundation, The Leche Trust, Scops Arts Trust, The Garrick Charitable Trust, The Victoria Wood Foundation, The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust, The Maria Björnson Memorial Fund, The Patricia Routledge Foundation, The Hollick Family Foundation and all our individual donors.

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