Directing Masterclass with Hal Chambers

Are you a director wanting to create plays about where you are from?

Want to know what happens behind the scenes before a play reaches the stage? 

Want to learn how to develop your ideas & vision?

Join Hal Chambers over 3 free sessions online as he looks at a director’s approach to making new work with a sense of place. 

Participants will need to have access to Zoom, all sessions will be recorded. 16+

Booking onto all 3 sessions is encouraged. You will need to add each session into your basket and then you only need to checkout once. Following your booking you will receive an email confirmation from Eastern Angles and the day before the workshop you will receive a Zoom link. Any questions relating the course or how to booking please email admin@easternangles.co.uk.

The focus over the sessions will be how to develop and stage a new play about the 1827 murder of Maria Marten from a new perspective. 

Each session will be led by Hal Chambers and facilitated by Eastern Angles. Please arrive at 12.45pm so we can ensure a prompt start at 1pm. 

Session one - ‘Developing work from local histories’ 
26th May  
12.45pm: Welcome
1pm - 2.15pm: Session 1 Development and preparation

- initial project proposal 

- research 

- script development 

- recruitment of creative team 

- development of musical ideas 

- working with a movement director 

- design process 

- research and development rehearsals. 

- finding the style, tone and atmosphere of the production 

Session two - ‘Staging the production’ 
2nd June 
12.45pm: Welcome
1pm - 2.15pm: Session 2  Rehearsing and steering the production towards performance  

- casting 

- the rehearsal process 

- improvisations and exercises 

- further developing musical and movement world 

- working with the lighting designer 

- dress rehearsals 

- noting performances

- re-mounting show for the round 

Session three - ‘Round table discussion’ 
9th June
12.45pm: Welcome
1pm - 2.15pm: Session 3 Meet the creative team

- bringing together some of the other key creatives on the production to talk through the project from different perspectives. 

Hal has directed in a number of leading UK Drama Schools including RADA, Oxford School of Drama, Birmingham School of Acting, LAMDA, ALRA and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He also has extensive experience directing work with young people, having worked as a resident director at Eton College. He regularly leads projects for Shakespeare’s Globe Education. He directs workshop productions that perform on both the Globe and Sam Wanamaker Playhouse stages. 

Directing Credits for Eastern Angles: The Ballad of Maria Marten, Polstead, The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, Ragnarok. 

Other Directing Credits: Julius Caesar (RADA); Henry V (Barn Theatre, Cirencester); Helver’s Night (York Theatre Royal); Hansel and Gretel, Macbeth, Henry II, Matilda The Empress, Henry the First of England, Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night (RABBLE - formally know as Reading Between the Lines, Reading); Electra, Merchant of Venice, Romeo & Juliet (Birmingham School of Acting); The Lights (Royal Court Theatre / Oxford School of Drama); Captain Flinn & The Pirate Dinosaurs: The Magic Cutlass (Les Petit - UK Tour); Leaper: A Fish Tale (Tucked In / Lyric Hammersmith - UK Tour); Vanity Fair (Middle Temple Hall), Tommy Foggo: Superhero (Gulbenkian & UK Tour), The Bear by Raymond Briggs (Polka Theatre, Albany Theatre, MAC Birmingham & UK/International Tour), Ratchet (Soho Theatre / Oxford School of Drama); The Magical Playroom (UK Tour, Seabright Productions); Romeo & Juliet (Assembly George Sq, Edinburgh/Regional Tour); Tim & Light, The Golden Cowpat, Sam Rose in the Shadows and Jackajack (Tucked In, National Tours); The Tale of Lady Stardust (Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe); Lobsters (PEEP @ Latitude Festival). 

Hal is currently working with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Praise for The Ballad of Maria Marten