I created The Laboratory to circumvent creative ‘stuckness’ and the potentially traumatic and limiting effects of some techniques actors use such as Method, Chubbuck, and the misinterpretation of Stanislavsky’s affective memory. My goal is to liberate and restore the actor’s psychological power encouraging creative safety in and out of transformation. The focus is directed at individual artistic freedom and craft-based mastery.
The Laboratory integrates the concept of the ‘true actor’ within, and draws on cognitive science and the purity of the imagination to bust limiting beliefs and break boundaries safely. This is actor training that interrogates the intimate and often evasive process of the actor’s transformation into character. The Laboratory is hosted by The Melbourne Actors’ Guild in St Kilda, Melbourne. It is a bi-yearly event, happening twice a year in winter and summer. Get in touch now for more information.
