Acting Now

🏳️‍🌈🎭Last Week Acting Now’s Marina Pallares-Elias and Cristina Roures Sepúlveda visited #Bilbao to offer a Raw Theatre workshop with a group of empowered, strong and inspiring women from Sare Lesbianista as part of ZINEGOAK film festival. In just 8 hours they created together a 30m theatre piece that was later presented at the event #Monstruosidades, in which the aim was to embrace and celebrate our own personal “monstrosity” through different art disciplines.
Marina and Cristina claim to be so overwhelmed by the experience, especially thanks to the amazing participants, festival team and people from Bilbao! #THANKS!!

Theatre of the Oppressed workshop, 9th February 2019.

Amazing time together working with Sare Lesbianista to create a raw theatre piece to raise awareness of lgtbq+ identity. Can’t wait to perform tomorrow at ZINEGOAK in Bilbao @ Bilborock

🎬😍Thanks Sasha Novakovic for the fabulous work producing this video for us. It summarizes so well the amazing time spent in 2018 devising and perforiming Side Roads, a documentary project in which people with and without mental health challenges created a play from scratch by sharing their own personal stories in such a brave, honnest and beautiful way.
The project was kindly funded by #A14 Community Fund and managed by Cambridgeshire Community Foundation. A big thank you to... both organisations for giving voice to people who normally don’t have a place in the public space.
Directed by Judita Vivas, Side Roads was casted by Romilly Jardine, Neil Graham Joe Burton, Robby Cocte, Grania Fallon, Dave Fordham, Gill Drake, Tom Head, Andrew, Lindsey McAuley, Jessica Foulger, Lisa Burkard and Nas Hira
Thank you also to all the amazing volunteers who helped along the process either at the workshops and performances or during the research project in which participants interviewed a group of 20 people about their experiences on the road: Jessica Foulger, Lindsey McAuley, Babette Lind-Jallow, Johanna Tuominen, Lynda Jeannot, Design Studio, Nando Fernacho Peter Nixon Kate O'Neill
Watch it and enjoy it!
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‘Just A Little Longer’ is an original play devised by LGBT+ young people in Cambridge in collaboration with LGBT+ charity The Kite Trust and directed by Acting Now director Marina Pallares.
We’re not just one issue, we’re made up of multiple issues that overlap. If we work together, we can make change happen. Through a collection of stories, join us as we learn how to keep strong as a community and to smile even when we cry. We’re done with waiting. It’s our moment, it’s our... escape, it’s our hope. All we want is just a little longer.
Date and Time: 7pm, Wednesday 13th March 2019 7pm, Thursday 14th March 2019 Location: Acting Now 47 – 51 Norfolk Street Cambridge, CB1 2LD
BOOKING REQUIRED (Free booking with donations on the day of the event) - Get your free tickets: - Through our Eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/just-a-lit tle-longer-tickets… - Emailing us at hello@actingnow.co.uk
Refreshments and drinks on sale from The Box Café before the event.
The Kite Trust: The Kite Trust is Cambridgeshire’s leading organisation working with LGBT+ young people. For 25 years the charity has proudly promoted the health, well-being, and inclusion of LGBT+ young people across Cambridgeshire; raising awareness, supporting, and educating the local community.
Acting Now: At Acting Now we believe theatre is a catalyst for social change and should be for anyone and everyone, not limited by gender, sexuality, physical ability, condition, language or background. Our projects use the language of theatre with disadvantaged groups of varying abilities to enable them to find their voices in a safe and encouraging environment. Throughout the workshops, we also build social and emotional skills, self-expression and self-esteem and address the stigma attached to certain conditions. The projects culminate in original theatre performances based on the stories that emerge from the group.
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Such a powerful session yesterday at our women group #NoMoreDrama. Participants had previously shared their worries and experiences so bravely and yesterday we started to create beautiful scenes using #PhysicalTheatre @nomoredrama

Documentary performance about different journeys we take: on the road, down memory lane and in our imagination. Devised by people with and without mental health issues. Directed by Acting Now's Judita Vivas. Performed in Cambridge, Huntingdon and St. Ives in Nov / Dec 2018

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Next stop: Bilbao!✈️🎭

We are so happy the film Champions won the top prize at Spanish Goya awards last Saturday. The film is casted by non-professional actors with real disabilities and one of the stars, Jesus Vidal, received the Breakthrough Performance prize. This is a big step to make arts more inclusive and we couldn´t celebrate it more! . . . .... #inclusivearts #visibility #actors #inclusivecinema Rowan
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Happy days at Rowan

We feel so honoured to have participated at Caius Diversity Day last Saturday at University of Cambridge. Marina Pallares-Elias offered a Theatre of the Oppressed workshop in which participants worked around the concept of Diversity using different Forum Theatre techniques.

Para nuestras amigas y amigos en #Barcelona! ✈️🌞 Marina Pallares-Elias viajará a su ciudad natal para impartir un curso sobre su metodología, #RawTheatre o #TeatroDelSi los próximos 2 y 3 de marzo con nuestros amigos de CRAP, pràctiques de creació i recerca artística. Inscripciones y más info: info@cra-p.org / +34 666 763 504. ... Evento en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/275891199 744541/ -- Hi lovely friends in and around #Barcelona! ✈️🌞Marina will visit her home town to present her methodology #RawTheatre or #TheatreOfYes on 2nd and 3rd March. More info and bookings: info@cra-p.org / +34 666 763 504 Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/275891199 744541/
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Acting Now Director Marina Pallares will take part at Caius Diversity day next 2nd February at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, offering a Theatre of the Oppressed workshop about diversity.
The event sold out in the first three hours of going live so if you already have a ticket for it, we are looking forward to seeing you there!

Join us for our next #TheatreOfTheOppressed training day on Saturday 9th February - https://mailchi.mp/…/theatre-of-the-opp ressed-workshop-this…
#ForumTheatre #Trainingday #ActingNow #MarinaPallaresElias

Last chance to join our #PhysicalTheatre course starting this Wednesday 16th Jan in #Cambridge. 8 session course on Weds 6.30 pm - 9 pm. #2weektrial options available #noexperience required. I nfo & bookings: ow.ly/IrE630niYP8 #actingcourse #bodyexpression #trysomethingnew

Wonderful organisation, such passionate people!

Whether a theatre practitioner or member of public, Acting Now offers something for all. Their courses are fantastic practically, physically, mentally and a wonderful source for well being.

The groups are welcoming and supportive, creating a family feel to the sessions making them accessible for all.

Learn new skills, get fitter both physically and mentally, meet new supportive people and build a network. Can not recommend highly enough.

What a pleasure to practice theater with Marina. She is an enthusiastic and professional teacher, who knows how to encourage and help anyone to makes progress, whatever the previous experiences. I would definitely recommend her physical theatre lessons, which free the mind and empower the body.

WOW! It’s a tremendous effort from the Acting Now, a social theatre company, for the promotion of physical theatre. It’s a great opportunity for the performing arts practitioner like me who think to create a new dimension of physical theatre on the basis of pantomime. Hopefully, Company’s courses regarding different physical theatre techniques will assist to groom inner talent and make a global network among the performing artists.

Physical theatre at its best! :D worthy to experience it, for me it was as challenging as fun!!

Marina is an inspiring and motivating teacher. She is demanding in a very warm, supportive and encouraging way. She allows us to get the most out of the physical theatre experience by highlighting our strengths, and offering tools which enable us to develop and grow our weaker areas, and surprise ourselves! Her classes are fantastic for building confidence and finding one's voice. They are both challenging and fun, and the devising processes are exciting and rewarding.

I look forward to seeing I Deserve A Better Chance - great to see something allowing people to portray personal stories in their own words. Lovely people and great supportive guidance <3 I would like to check whether tickets are available on the door though or last minute on the website so I can get a ticket last minute to ensure I'm taking up a place not already going to be taken by anyone else. Thanks xx

Great team, amazing activities. I live in Italy but I keep actively following. I don't want to miss any chance to live experiences together :)

Great team formed by passionate people!! Amazing all the things they do, courses, workshops, performances...Highly recommended for everyone who wants to grow in many different ways!!!

Fantastic beginners course for anyone who is really interested in acting, learning how to be physically present in the body, rather than picking up a script and being told to 'Act'.It has been a more natural process for me and to become a better actor, great for confidence and intensity, would fully recommend to anyone wanting to do something different and who has always had a feeling for drama and or would like to experience acting from a more physical side. Marina is truly fabulous teacher! Would well recommend! Lily

Fab course. Great for seasoned actors and beginners alike. It has been great working with Marina and rediscovering that my more mature body can still move in ways I had forgotten! Every lesson is a great workout for both mind and body. I would thoroughly recommend Acting Now.