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PRAMMS has always believed that we can enjoy theatre arts not just for the brief moments we are performing on stage or camera for others, but much more so when we are just playing without an audience - and in the process becoming better at it. After all, for most of us, theatre is a fun hobby - and how is it fun unless we are pushing ourselves to do something we typically don't, or are not totally comfortable doing?
Expectations and Covenant
Our workshops are by invitation only. If you are interested, please get in touch. We are centered around the Indian-American identity, but will happily work with others. If you come to our workshops, we ask you to abide by the following.
No food or drink: You could carry at most some drinking water. Nothing else, please.
Wear comfortable clothes: Anything that lets you move about freely or stretch a bit - wear comfortable shoes that will not easily slip off or trip you up. You cannot go barefoot.
Respect everybody’s time: Please plan to be present for the full workshop. We do a sequence of activities, many of them building on previous ones. Coming in significantly late will seriously limit the benefit from it. Basically we expect everybody to commit to be present the entire time period we agree on.
Workshop, not talk-shop: To make the most of our time, we only do activities. From time to time, to set the context and motivation for an activity, the activity leader makes short explanations. We meet up at other times if anybody should want to discuss stuff, but during the time we have set aside, only speak as a part of the activity.
Participants only; no spectators: Do everything that everybody else does. The workshop sessions are not performance or exhibition events. Only participants allowed. Please don’t bring guests.
No babysitting
Bring effort, not judgement: We create a safe place in which all of us can try to better our own best, without judgement. We are learning and practicing; we are not performing for each other or anybody else.
Vegas rules: What happens in the workshop, stays in the workshop. Nobody takes pictures or videos. An activity leader may sometimes take photos or videos to demonstrate something to somebody. But these will be deleted before the end of the workshop, after they have served their purpose.
Please believe: Just like in Disneyworld… the magic only works for you if you believe in it. Please come with an accepting heart, ready to believe in the community we are forming, ready to be wholeheartedly a part of it.
Workshop contents
These are the workshops we typically do - of course every time is different. Sometimes different ones are combined, or broken up into a larger number of more intensive ones.
A0: Starting Theatre. Tools of the actor, warming up tools, exercises and stretch goals, improving range.
A1: Creating a Character. Analyzing objectives, similarity and difference exercises, mapping character and dialog to tools.
A2: Creating a Scene. Working with co-actors, feeling space on stage, group exercises for timing and shared consciousness.
I0: Basic Theatre-Readiness. Basically A0, with as much of A1 and A2 that can be covered in a session.
I1: Beginning Improv Exercises. Idea of agreement and co-invention, exercises in agreement on premise.
I2: Improv Scenes. Progressively longer scenes with different sets of constraints and instant directives.
F1: Film acting. How stage-acting and camera-acting are the same and different; modulation of expressions, pose and repose.
T0: Technical overview. What is technical theatre, stage management, pre-, post-, and production in film.
TF1: Film pre-production.
TF2: Film post-production.
TL: Lighting for stage and film.
Note: We are not a professional theatre-training organization. Many of the exercises we do are quite standard ones, others are of our own invention that seem to work for us. We do not hand out any participation certificates.
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