Acting Workshop with Max Stafford-Clark

Keble’s O’Reilly Theatre was privileged to welcome the champion of new writing, Max Stafford-Clark, to tread its boards in an acting workshop organised for Keble students on 23^rd January. Stafford-Clark, founder and director of the Out of Joint theatre company and the longest-serving artistic director ever at the cutting-edge Royal Court Theatre, took tomorrow’s leading actors through their paces in activities based on contemporary drama. Focussing particularly on the recent plays ‘Bang Bang Bang’ by Stella Feehily and ‘Rita, Sue and Bob Too’ by Andrea Dunbar, the workshop was also designed to complement the current performances of a watershed text in modern theatre, Caryl Churchill’s ‘Top Girls,’ over in the Oxford Playhouse. Fresh and innovative acting and directing techniques were picked up and honed in this session organised in collaboration with OUDS, ETC and Keble’s own Martin Esslin Society that gave Keblites the chance to work intimately with a renowned and much-respected artist, whose output on-stage continues to shock, challenge and revitalise theatre.