Tiny Stages: Exploring the Platform

In this workshop, folks will learn how to tell a big story in a tiny space. We will focus on using physical movement, comic mime techniques and ensemble-based collaboration to explore Jacque Lecoq’s Platform Exercise. We will discover how to create vast worlds and epic narratives within the confines of a small performance space. Theatrical magic will emerge not just from elaborate sets or costumes, but from the individual and collective imagination that comic mime invites performers to cook up for themselves.

This event is open to anyone excited by playful, creative storytelling. Performers of all levels are welcome and no previous theatre training is required.

About the Facilitator

Born and raised in New York City, Brooke Shilling is a theatre artist, theatre educator, and clown. She has collaborated with companies such as One Year Lease Theater Company, Theater Unspeakable, inFLUX Theatre Collective, The Lemonade Stand, Theatre Ariel, Arden Theatre Company, and more. She has facilitated workshops and taught as a visiting artist at the University of the Arts, Theatre Horizon, One Year Lease Theater Company's International Program in Greece, Japan and India, performing arts high schools, and more, working with both theatre makers and non-theatre makers, the elderly, autistic youth and young adults, incarcerated young people, medical and business students, and others. Brooke’s work has been presented Off-Broadway at 59E59 Theaters, at the Philadelphia FringeArts Festival, The Cannonball Festival, The Drama League, Dixon Place, at the Shoe Box Short Theater Festival and with The Lemonade Stand. Some original works include Ladies of the Land, Threnody, Sinky The Pirate, Standardized and Pirate Queens, which was a 2024 Week Two Philly Fringies Frontrunner at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. See more at brooke-shilling.com