Liberate your acting through comedy.

When you are fully present with another person, something alive and funny naturally

emerges. This course gives you the tools to find that, keep finding it scene after scene,

and take your acting to the next level.

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WHO IS TEACHING IT

Trevor Lock is an international actor, comedian and director with over 25 years of

experience across stage, television and film. He is a British Comedy Award-winning,

BAFTA-nominated actor for his work on Star Stories (Channel 4), and has written and

directed seven plays for stage and BBC Radio.

His theatre work includes What You Really Want (The Pleasance, Edinburgh and

London), described as part sitcom, part rom-com, part philosophical treatise and awarded

four stars by Edinburgh Evening News; Something You Should Know (Gilded Balloon,

Edinburgh), described as funny, moving and clever by The Scotsman; and All By Myself

(Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh), described as utterly improbable, absolutely entertaining by

The Independent.

Alongside his performance work, he is a Visiting Tutor at Actors Space Berlin, where he

teaches actors how to work with action, behaviour and live interaction rather than relying

on text or pre-planned ideas.

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“A masterclass in comedy performance” — The Scotsman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

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WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS IN THE SESSIONS

This is a practical, on-your-feet course.

Each session is built around simple acting games and short scenes. The exercises have

clear rules that force real interaction, so you can't fall back on habits or try to be funny.

Actors are welcome to bring audition pieces and scenes they are working on.

The sessions usually start with exercises or games, for example you might be asked to

play a looking game or a touching game either in pairs or as a group and then discover

how playing the same game in the scene you're working on transforms it.

You will work in pairs or as a group, sometimes with a script, sometimes without. Each

class focuses on learning one skill, one game or approach and then putting it into practice

in a scene.

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WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

By the end of the course, you will learn how to:

* get out of your head and into action

* stop planning and respond to what's actually happening

* affect the other actor instead of performing at them

* stay in the scene when it gets difficult instead of collapsing

* know when to stay with something and when to change it, and do it

* stop hiding behind the lines and make something happen

* use your body and space to shift what's going on

* make your thinking visible without explaining it

* recognise when a scene is dead and bring it back to life

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WHY PEOPLE ENJOY IT

The sessions are fast and focused.

Because the exercises are simple but demanding, things start to happen quickly. A scene

that felt flat suddenly comes alive. Something that wasn't working starts working without

you forcing it.

People enjoy it because it's a relief. You stop trying to be good, and things start working.

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Guardian Review

The Scotsman Review

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