ACTING 301 29 January - 18 March 2024

Name: ACTING 301 29 January - 18 March 2024
Start: 2024-01-29T18:30:00+1100
End: 2024-03-18T21:30:00+1100
Location: Mill Theatre, Building 3.3, 1 Dairy Road, Fyshwick 2609

Mon, 29 Jan, 6:30pm - 18 Mar, 9:30pm 2024 AEDT

Mill Theatre, Building 3.3, 1 Dairy Road, Fyshwick 2609

fyshwick, australia

Lexi Sekuless Productions

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Acting 301

630pm-930pm Mondays

29 January - 18 March 2024

$480 for 8 sessions in small group training, preview and public performance

Ready to be tested? This course is for the Acting 201 graduates from the 2023 course AND anyone with some performance experience. We start with an …audition! Yes that’s right! You know the theatre, you know Lexi and at the Mill we work on life with all the boring bits cut out. Acting 301 is a safe place to test yourself with plenty of support around you to take your acting to another place. Participants will then get an overview of the work completed in 2023 with specific feedback before beginning work on scenes and monologues to be performed publicly on 18 March 2024.

In 301 the course work becomes more bespoke to each participant as you are guided towards performance. This practical course will involve the review of 201, more technique support, tailored exercises for each participant, tuition for the public performance, a preview show plus feedback before the final production.

Those who have not attended the 201 course but are keen to join 301 are welcome to send an email to hello@milltheatreatdairyroad.com and please list your acting experience and goals. We can have a chat and see what will be possible!

Course Content

Week 1 – Auditions and review of 201 principles

Week 2 – Text analysis: UK training and technique week

Week 3 – Character and working from self: USA training and technique options

Week 4 – What are rehearsals for?

Week 5 - Private sessions

Week 6 - Private sessions

Week 7 - Final rehearsals including learning about tech and dress rehearsals

Week 8 - Preview, feedback and public show

LOCATION

The Mill Theatre is in Building 3.3, the Screencraft and KeepCo building which is a short walk from Capital Brewing. There are two easy ways to approach the Theatre:

PARK in P3 at the back of the precinct. From there you will see building 3.3 which has a large Screencraft sign. The public entrance is just up from that sign (not underneath it!). Once inside, walk about 5 metres and the theatre is to the right, next to Mojo Guitars.

WALK from Capital Brewing or the Less sculpture into the KeepCo building, pass Ramen Daddy and at the end of the corridor we are on the left.

PARKING

All parking in the precinct is free with several accessible parking spots in all the parking locations. The best spot to park is P3 at the back of the precinct. If you park elsewhere please be warned that signage and way-finding around the precinct is extremely difficult. Arrive in plenty of time to possibly get lost, possibly be in a bad mood!

About Lexi Sekuless

Lexi graduated from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama with a Bachelor of Acting in 2013. She works extensively in the voice and presenting space as voice-artist, MC and keynote speaker. She uses this experience in combination with her acting training to provide voice coaching for those seeking to increase their confidence and vocal presence. Lexi has performed in London, Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra on stage and screen.

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About the Mill Theatre at Dairy Road & Lexi Sekuless Productions

The Mill Theatre at Dairy Road is Canberra’s newest theatre, an intimate 67 seat greybox studio at the Dairy Road precinct. This venue opened in November 2022 and was built by the Molonglo Group with the technical fit out by Elite Event Technology. The technical fit out is what turned a cool room into a theatre and Elite Event Technology is the ongoing and major partner. In 2024, Willard Public Affairs joined the Mill Theatre team as Principal Sponsor. It is the first private enterprise theatre of its kind in the ACT and is run by Lexi Sekuless Productions. The Theatre is an ambitious venture committed to a professional theatre practice and growth of the professional theatre industry in the ACT. Here you can expect quality, professionalism and an experience like nothing you can get on your laptop at home.

About Dairy Road

Dairy Road is a neighbourhood slowly developing on a 14-hectare site in Canberra’s East Lake. It sits next to Canberra’s industrial suburb of Fyshwick and the human-made nature reserve, the Jerrabomberra Wetlands. Currently the site is made up of warehouses, some office buildings and vehicle yards and has become home to printers, brewers, distillers, roasters, startups, indoor recreation, health providers and commercial producers. A number of gardens and pockets of open public spaces have replaced asphalt and concrete.

Dairy Road is being developed by Molonglo, with a long-term vision for an interconnected and diverse neighbourhood that emerges over the next 10 years. A productive refuge where many often-separated parts work together as one ecosystem. Here, light industry, working, living, recreation, retail and entertainment will be undertaken in a restored landscape.

The Players

Attached to the theatre is an ensemble of professional Canberra creatives called the Dairy Road Players. They are a mix of Canberra creatives, along with several interstate Canberra lovers, committed to a professional practice for the ACT theatre industry. They work together at regular drop-ins, with parts in productions offered directly to Players. This is not a cosy club. Creatives who share the same values are welcome to join by attending the drop-ins.

There may not be a huge number of professional theatre makers in the ACT (and many keep moving out of town!) but those who are here should be celebrated and promoted. This is not about being better than any others. It is not about vertical comparisons. It is about the positive exploration of technique, and the positive promotion and horizontal growth of the industry in Canberra. There is room for all of us.

Drop-ins and capacity development

No one is actually interested in five minutes in the room with sweat running down your back and a snooty casting director enjoying having power over you. Traditional auditions are flawed. A major characteristic of the new Theatre is that we do things differently. The drop-ins, for example, act as a replacement process for our productions. They enable an open door policy and also multiple chances to get it wonderfully wrong.

Support and soft infrastructure via the shadow-emerge-mentoree process is another way we hope to grow the industry through new and different approaches. Key productions, for example, have a call out for new directors to shadow the experienced director. This will be followed by a chance to then direct under your mentor.

Every element of the Theatre from casting to play selections is tailored towards breaking new ground for Canberra creatives, and for their audiences.