BASEMENT COMPANY
For ages 17-21 • $700 / year
13 February- 26 November 2020 • Thursdays 5PM-7.30PM
Weekly workshops are Thursdays 5pm - 7.30pm during term.
PLUS
Show 1 (11 May - 20 June): 5 week rehearsal period (Mondays - Thursdays: 5pm - 9pm + Sundays: 10 - 4pm).
Show 2 (14 Sept - 17 Oct): 4 week rehearsal period (Mondays - Thursdays: 5pm - 9pm + Sundays: 10am - 4pm)
Basement Company has been running since 2005 and is an intensive full-year programme for emerging artists to gain professional level skills and experience.
Alumni of the company leave with experience in performance, stage craft, voice, improvisation, script analysis and devising. The programme is built around two public performances during the year. The first show is Cloudstreet, a classic Australian script that the team will bring to life. The second show is The Basement Variety Hour which is a cabaret show where every student will create their own stand alone cabaret act based on skills or a type of performance they wish to focus on, they will each leave with an act that they can utilise again in other shows.
The company meets for a two-and-a-half hour workshop each week during term time, one full-day intensive per term, plus rehearsals, production week and performance season, twice yearly. Members attend all Centrepoint main bill productions for free as part of their learning.
The main tutor of the programme is Lizzie Tollemache, Associate Director of Centrepoint Theatre. Lizzie has previously been the Managing Director of Rollicking Entertainment for the last five years creating and performing in interactive works that have toured NZ and internationally.
Our 2019 Basement Company. Image: AH23 Photography
APPLY NOW FOR 2020 BASEMENT COMPANY
Applications close December 2, 2019.
Audition details and 2020 productions soon to be announced.