I took part in a three-hour workshop with Lecoq trained Rhum and Clay focused on creating theatre that is cinematic: taking the visual trickery of cinema and putting it on stage. I learnt a lot about how to tell stories through mime and gesture, and experimented with creating the illusion of many different characters and spaces with just my body and voice.

I was then further challenged to collaborate and devise as an ensemble using this difficult form of theatre, however through experimentation, failure, and taking risks, my group ended up making a series of tableaus telling the story of The Lion King, which we were hugely proud of.

This workshop really helped me learn a bit more about my own physical style and how my body works and moves, which is extremely useful for when I continue to run physical workshops and rehearsals for productions. I feel I am also now able to understand how other people’s bodies move and stretch more easily than previously, as Rhum and Clay showed us what to pick up on to see how strong an actor is physically.