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FRANK THEATRE (Australia) [July 2006]
FRANK/SUZUKI PERFORMANCE AESTHETICS.
  
CPR is pleased to welcome back John Nobbs and Jacqui Carroll, co-directors of Brisbane-based Frank Theatre to Wales, along with their current associate artists. Frank Theatre specialises in offering the highly regarded Suzuki Actor training within their own hybrid framework, Frank/Suzuki Performance Aesthetics. CPR is also delighted to be presenting the company’s performance, Hamlet Stooged, an opportunity to experience the impact of the training on their own high-energy performance work as the company perform their version of Shakespeare’s tragedy.
This workshop offers an intense body/voice experience bedded in a deep philosophical framework. This 21st Century approach to the acquisition of performance skills is a new paradigm that enriches workshop participants through its unique and holistic approach. Through group training, participants will envelop themselves in the collective energy of the group and are introduced to the concept that the body of the actor must first learn to occupy stage space.
The workshop is open to those in the theatre community who are expressly interested in a performance study course based on Eastern principles. Tadashi Suzuki, creator of the Suzuki Actor training method, has granted international trainer status to course directors John Nobbs and Jacqui Carroll. Participants can opt for the full 5 days or take the 2 day introductory workshop.
“This workshop has been an intense and challenging journey. Fundamental to this was Jacqui and John's continuous guidance; supportive and rigorous from beginning to end. I felt a great sense of achievement at the end of each day as I moved a step further to clarifying my understanding of the body's centre and finding the stillness between each movement, keeping it alive, using the voice through movement and finding a fusion between the two. “
Frank/Suzuki Aesthetics participant, Wales, 2005
“John is a totally inspiring, encouraging and challenging teacher. The work is intense and fun at the same time. It's all about holding the order and the chaos at the same time. This was the most thorough method I have experienced for uniting the voice and body and to push both beyond their limitations.”
Frank/Suzuki Aesthetics participant, Wales, 2005
John Nobbs has performed in Tadashi Suzuki's internationally acclaimed production of Dionysus. As the only Australian actor ever invited to perform with the Suzuki Company of Toga (SCOT), John has performed with SCOT in Toga, Shizuoka and Saitama, Japan; toured internationally to Greece, Italy, Austria and Canada in 1994 and 1995. John performed as Banquo's Ghost in the 1992 Suzuki/Playbox production of The Chronicle of Macbeth which toured to Adelaide Festival, Melbourne, Hobart and Tokyo. In 1999 John was invited to perform at the 2nd International Theatre Olympics, Japan, in Tadashi Suzuki's production of Nightmare.
As a choreographer Jacqui Carroll has created such major works as Carmina Burana, Scheherazade, Othello, Four Seasons, Transfigured Night, A Christmas Carol and The Tempest for the Queensland Ballet; Canzona for the Australian Ballet; Stabat Mater, Night of the Full Moon, Nightsongs and Summer Dances for the West Australian Ballet among others. Since encountering the work of internationally renowned Japanese theatre director Tadashi Suzuki in 1991 Jacqui has deepened her skills base even further and has been developing theatre works using all the resources of movement, text and dance that she has accrued during her extensive career in theatre.
Hamlet Stooged:
“What sort of dude am I? How smart in hindsight? Dreamer in the distance? Fit and lean, a clean machine? Too cool for school? In action am I not Beckham? In delivery like Brett Lee? A Kenny for South Park? A panther among pussies? And yet to me what is all this stooging about...?"
"So soggy, stale, stinking and slack, seem to me all the burgers at Big Mac!"
“Frank Theatre delivers innovative, visually stunning theatre and manages to do it with minimal cast and minimal props specializing in “Suitcase” theatre, where the whole show can be packed in one or two suitcases and taken around the world…Directed by Jacqui Carroll, this production is a modern, urban update on the classic Hamlet, focusing on his madness and inner turmoil through a series of bizarre dreams and nightmares. “
Lisa Lamb - Tsunami Magazine, Feb 2006
More information on FRANK THEATRE (Australia) can be found at
www.ozfrank.com,
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