Get your Bouff-on! Naarm

LE JEU & THE LIBERATING ART OF GROTESQUE SATIRE

A weekend intensive with Emily Goddard

April 6&7 2024 10am-5pm

Wild, hilarious, powerful and provocative, Bouffon has been used across cultures for centuries. To unite, to ignite, to shout out and be heard. To give a voice to the voiceless, find light in the darkness and to rock, and mock, the status quo.

Bouffon is, in short, a style of ‘grotesque satire’ in which outcasts mock their oppressors. The mockery is designed to charm the audience while ruthlessly targeting and exposing the hypocrisy and injustices in the culture at large.

Made famous through the Lecoq and Gaulier schools, Bouffon training allows us to break free of inhibitions, unlock our childlike pleasure and build complicity and sensitivity with an audience.

Through exploring Bouffon and its techniques, actors can achieve increased spontaneity and courage and discover a profoundly greater physical presence and power on stage.

This masterclass will explore:

-Playfulness and Le Jeu (the game)

-Complicity and ensemble work

-Body masks & the power of disguise

-Creating connection with the audience

-The techniques of parody

-Devising using Bouffon for contemporary theatre.

Emily Goddard is a graduate of Ecole Philippe Gaulier, Paris. She has worked as a professional actor and theatre maker for the past 13 years across Australia and the UK, for companies including MTC, Belvoir, The Bush-London, Birmingham Rep, Queensland Theatre, Malthouse and Red Stitch. She is the creator and performer of the Drama Victoria award winning Bouffon anti-bonnet drama This is Eden and has been nominated for three Green Room Awards for Outstanding Female Actor, most recently for This is Eden. She has taught Le Jeu and Bouffon for VCA, Collarts, Empire Theatres, USQ, Melbourne University, Brave Studios, 16th Street, Drama Victoria/Territory/Australia, Second Echo, Belvoir, Hothouse Theatre, The Monobox, London and across secondary schools nationally.

$300 full/$250 Concession

Scholarships & Payment plans available.

For more info email goddard.emily@gmail.com