This workshop will look at the relationship between the actor, the ensemble, the word and space. Led by Douglas Rintoul, Artistic Director of UK theatre company Transport and long-‐ standing Associate Director of Complicite, the workshop draws from theatre games, creative exercises, bamboo work, improvisation, group movement, reading, writing and discussion, the workshop is During the workshop participants will explore and experience the potential power of the actor when fully present in the space, inhabiting texts in English (Shakespeare and contemporary) whilst engaging as an ensemble.
Date: Saturday, 17 December 2011
Venue: Ranan (Ground Floor, 8 Sultan Alam Road, Calcutta – 33)
Time: 10am to 2pm
Participation fees: Rs. 400/-
Recommended for those with some experience in contemporary theatre practice and performance, 18 years and above. Limited participation. Please apply with full CV and contact details to rananindia@gmail.com by 5 December 2011. Those selected will be informed by 10 December 2011.
Douglas Rintoul read Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham. He was awarded a Channel 4 Theatre Director's Bursary and became Resident and Associate Director at Salisbury Playhouse. He was the first recipient of the Esmée Fairbairn Regional Theatre Initiative Award that gives young directors the opportunity to direct a large-‐scale classic text on a main stage. In 2009 he was nominated for an Arts Foundation Fellowship by the National Theatre Studio and Barbican Theatre. In 2010 he won a European Cultural Foundation Award for Transport to develop their new project Invisible.
Douglas is now the Artistic Director of Transport for which he directed the first major revival and English premiere of David Greig's 1994 play Europe (BITE:07/Dundee Rep Theatre), the devised piece Elegy (Edinburgh Festival Fringe) nominated for a Fringe First, and Invisible (New Wolsey Theatre/UK and European tour). As a freelance director he has directed Much Ado About Nothing and Copenhagen (Salisbury Playhouse), Touched for the Very First Time (Trafalgar Studios -‐ What's On Stage Award Nomination for Best Solo Performance), Closer and Design for Living (Les Theatres de la Ville de Luxembourg), King Lear (Creation), Private Lives and Travels with My Aunt (New Wolsey Theatre).
Associate Director on Deborah Warner's Julius Caesar (BITE:05 and international tour), Douglas has also associate directed Endgame (Duchess Theatre), A Disappearing Number (BITE:09 and international tour) and Measure for Measure (Royal National Theatre and international tour) all for Complicite. He assisted Deborah Warner on her production of Fidelio (Glyndebourne Festival Opera). He has directed for Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and has taught or led workshops for the Young Vic Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company, Hyderabad University, The Eugene O'Neill Institute of Theater, London Metropolitan University, Birmingham University, Theatre Institute Warsaw, University of Gdansk, Rose Bruford, West Yorkshire Playhouse, NT Studio and Old Vic Theatre.
Douglas Rintoul is in Calcutta for the second phase of a collaborative performance project between Ranan and Transport. Titled The Edge the project takes narratives of climate change and migration as starting points focusing on stories and experiences emerging from the geographical areas and histories of the English Channel and the Sundarbans delta. This research and development phase of the project is part-funded by the British Council’s ‘Connections through Culture’ programme. 
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