Muneeb Ur Rehman - A Character's Search for Authenticity

About the Workshop
This workshop takes an ensemble-based approach to creating multi-faceted depth with multiple layers in characterization. Inspired by psychotherapy frameworks of Clara E. Hill, participants will undergo a series of exercises based on four psychotherapy foci: existential, past, relationship and psychological.

The workshop is a continuation of Muneeb’s recent work published in Embodied Playwriting: Improv and Acting Exercises for Writing and Devising (routledge.com) (Chapter 5). The participants will experiment with a format whose forward narrative motion is propelled by the protagonist's in-depth character development.

Participant Experience
Reasonable experience of playing long-form improvisation, with an interest in developing layered and complex characters.

About Your Teacher
Muneeb has been teaching improvisation theatre since 2018, and have conducted workshops and intensives in Karachi, Kathmandu and online, during covid at IFO Impro Fest. Other institutions he has been associated with are Karachi Arts Council Theatre Academy, Actors Studio Karachi, Veritas Learning Circle, ICST Nepal, PariWartan Theatre, SIT Nepal, Kunja Theatre. In his teaching, Muneeb probes and cultivates the performers' latent rhythms, sensations, emotions and impulses - their gamut of humanity - as a foundational doorway to spontaneous creation in improvisation theatre. In developing his improv pedagogy, Muneeb's guiding value is that improvisation as an absorbent and ever-expansive art form allows influence from all corners and domains of life, which makes it possible for everyone's unique individuality to shine through it. He drawis from different influences and disciplines and is particularly keen on unfolding players' own hidden proclivities and experiences that can make for them improv personally, viscerally meaningful.

Details
Sunday 8th September 2024
10:00 - 13:00

This workshop venue is fully accessible and will take place at:
Squire Performing Arts Centre
Arboretum St
Nottingham
NG1 4JB