Directing and Support Resources

In these insightful talks and tutorials, the ‘Common Lore’ creative team guide you through the creative process involved in staging a play. These exercises and tasks will help improve your theatre-making skills and give you some behind-the-scenes insight into rehearsal techniques.

These creative and educational tools are being made available for free during the Covid-19 crisis. Stute Theatre is run by artist Sophia Hatfield’ alongside a dedicated freelance team. If you are able to contribute towards our educational work, please consider donating through the button at the bottom of this page. All money raised will fund the ‘Common Lore’ team to create educational resources and take our performances out to young people across the UK. Thank you!

Richard James-Neale Movement Task

The ‘Common Lore’ Movement Director Richard James-Neale talks about his role during rehearsal and sets you a movement task to complete at home using cardboard boxes or chairs and your own written work.

Download the accompanying worksheet here.

Rehearsal Insights - Multi-Roling

Sophia Hatfield discusses the performer’s challenge of physically switching between two different characters and how we overcame this in rehearsal.

Bryn Holding - Directing Text

‘Common Lore’ Director Bryn Holding guides you through some of the principles pf directing text, finding clues in the written words to discover more about a character and how a scene can be staged. Bryn explores punctuation, rhythm, poetic devices, physical staging, design, and character to bring the words to life.

Download the accompanying text extract here and worksheet here.

Bryn Holding - Insights on Remote Directing

Director Bryn Holding talks about his experiences directing ‘Common Lore’ remotely, working with the performer via a video link to stage the work during rehearsals.

Lucie is a freelance art marketer who worked with us on the Common Lore project. Some Arts Awards participants asked her a few questions about social media content and channels, and she felt it was important to explain the importance of researching and understanding your target audience, explaining your product or service benefits and telling a unique story with your content. She also mentions Experiential Marketing which is developing to possibly shape the future of marketing and sounds really interesting in relation to arts and theatre.
She also recommends checking out the marketing resources at AES Education.