Jonathan Kay

& The Nomadic Academy for Fools

Training and Performing 2006 to 2014

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I trained with Jonathan Kay, over a 7 year period, learning 'the structure' - a complete all round understanding and practice of theatre, for any context or environment, from street to full scale stage. 

 

Jonathan Kay enables an approach to spontaneity and creativity, developing a full understanding of how to work with ones self and others.

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The work fully explores the relationship between performer and audience, life and theatre, and enables a crucial understanding of how to work with and engage the audience's imagination.   

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Improvisation, Shakespeare, stage craft, physicality, movement, stillness, chorus, archetypal work, emotional range...the learning process not only develops the skills of those involved, it opens up participants to their own vulnerability - there is no place it can't go - dark or light, comic or tragic, profound or ridiculous.

 

'The Nomadic Academy for Fools'? - 'Nomadic' because the training took place in a different location for 10 days each month. 'For Fools' because 'the Fool' can play any part, any role, be substituted for any card in the pack - a shapeshifting 'no - thing'! In the court the fool can talk to anyone from King to beggar - it has no restrictions - it is free. Only a fool would go on stage with nothing as a starting point. It's the essential part of being creative.