Spotlight ON delves into the Lazarus ensemble / text process, exploring and sharing how performers and creatives begin approaching a Lazarus creative process.

In this episode, Ricky and Gavin talk about pointing. Our example text will be the prologue from Romeo and Juliet. A copy of the text can be found in the performer portal at www.lazarustheatrecompany.co.uk/gym

Spotlight ON delves into the Lazarus ensemble / text process, exploring and sharing how performers and creatives begin approaching a Lazarus creative process.

In this episode, Ricky and Gavin talk about how they break up thoughts and parts of thoughts with space, musicality, and intention. Our example text will be the prologue from Romeo and Juliet. A copy of the text can be found in the performer portal at www.lazarustheatrecompany.co.uk/gym

Spotlight ON delves into the Lazarus ensemble / text process, exploring and sharing how performers and creatives begin approaching a Lazarus creative process.

In this episode, Ricky and Gavin talk about how they break up a piece of text using thoughts and parts of thoughts. Again, they are using the prologue from Romeo and Juliet. A copy of the text can be found in the performer portal at www.lazarustheatrecompany.co.uk/gym

Spotlight ON delves into the Lazarus ensemble / text process, exploring and sharing how performers and creatives begin approaching a Lazarus creative process.

In this episode, Ricky and Gavin delve into the Lazarus Process and talk about what questions we ask before we start to break up the text. We’ll be using the prologue from Romeo and Juliet. A copy of the text can be found in the performer portal at www.lazarustheatrecompany.co.uk/gym

Spotlight ON delves into the Lazarus ensemble / text process, exploring and sharing how performers and creatives begin approaching a Lazarus creative process.

In this episode, Ricky talks more about being work ready and takes us through a warm up. Designed to be used as a guide to building your own personal warm up.

Warm up begins at 2 minutes 20 seconds

Spotlight ON delves into the Lazarus ensemble / text process, exploring and sharing how performers and creatives begin approaching a Lazarus creative process.

In this series, we will delve into the collaborative and ensemble way Lazarus make theatre and the process they use to dissect, understand and play classical text to empower actors and creatives, allowing them to make informed decisions based on what the writer has given them.

In this episode, Ricky and Gavin talk about how to be work ready.

Spotlight ON delves into the Lazarus ensemble / text process, exploring and sharing how performers and creatives begin approaching a Lazarus creative process.

Over the next 7 episodes Producer Gavin Harrington-Odedra speaks to Artistic Director Ricky Dukes who will be sharing Lazarus’ step by step guide to approaching, dissecting, understanding and playing classical text through the power of collaboration and ensemble.

This week we talk to Actor and Lazarus Associate, Jamie O’Neill. Since we last spoke to Jamie we have worked together on three productions at Southwark Playhouse and a number of R&D’s and workshops. In 2021, we remounted our 2019 production of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé. Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus in 2022 and The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley in 2023.

In the episode we didn't get a chance to talk about Jamie's new project, Sound and Fury. Visit here to find out more.

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