SOLO - The devised Monologue

Workshop and individual coaching with Christine Schmalor

Saturdays 30 November | 7 December | 14 December | always at 12:00 – 15:00 UTC+1 | Berlin time plus 3 x one meeting of 1 hour with each participant during the following week. Time to be arranged.

The SOLO course supports artists who are creating a monologue, a monodrama, a solo performance or their own devised theatre evening. The SOLO course is likewise aimed at all those who are currently taking a fresh look at their audition repertoire, because this can be about more than just a few pretty monologues, but about presenting your own artistic personality. In any case, you need a roadmap for your steps. Working on oneself and with oneself is a journey into the unknown with the very practical questions: How do I structure my own artistic path? What do I have to keep in mind? How do I work with myself? What tasks should I set myself so that I can really break new ground? You might have already a vague subject or a collection of artistic material, but how to work with it?

We will touch the following subjects:
The artistic work with a theme and its practical implementation.
Steps to unfold your creative mind-flow. The process of creation through intertextuality: discovering new patterns of speech and thought that, in particular, inspire playfulness. Working with the artistic image – finding it, shaping it and stepping into it.
The art of composition as the basis and compass of designing a mono-performance or a monologue.

Theory and insights want to be put into practice artistically; therefore, in all topics, joint practical exercises will help to understand more and to make the often lonely process both enjoyable and productive.

The SOLO course consists of 3 joint meetings with 3 hours each; with lecture, discussion and practical exercises to try out immediately together. After each meeting you will have a one-hour personal coaching session the following week to deepen the topic and apply it to your own project; dates by arrangement. Further coaching hours can then additionally be booked as needed. Each meeting has a clearly outlined theme, so you can choose to attend all or just one. Register for the whole course, or for:

SOLO 1 – Above All (30 November) FINDING my theme – OPENING all dimensions of a theme – GIVING VOICE to my theme

SOLO 2 – The creative mind flow (7 December) Intertextuality – game and chaos – THINK BIG!

SOLO 3 – Composition (14 December) Building your fundament – your compass – your ARTISTIC LANGUAGE