(Rajesh Gopie)
Respected actor, playwright, director, producer and
qualified acting teacher, Rajesh Gopie, will be running a professional acting
course for film and TV as part of his ActorWize programme early next
year from January 15 until February 4 2017.
Created by Rajesh Gopie, the course
is called the Professional Acting Course for Film and TV. It will be
taking place at the Thekwini College (former Springfield Training College),
Asherville Campus. The classes offer a unique training style with a
psycho-physical approach.
Gopie
describes his latest project: Professional Acting Course for Film and
TV as, “Classes are geared towards providing
the building blocks needed to develop acting skills. The compressed length of
the course and the focused level of study needs commitment and intensive
collaboration among the participants. The emphasis is placed on the physical
blocks which stop the instinctual body from doing what it should do naturally.
However, fear and bad experiences which plague our lives result in
psychological blocks which prevent the actor from reaching full potential.
These blocks will be addressed, unpacked and managed during the course. ”
Gopie is a professional multi-award
winning actor and playwright who has worked on film, TV, stage and radio -
locally and internationally. In the last five years he has turned his focus to
training South African actors and pursued a masters degree in actor training
and coaching at the world-renown Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (RCSSD)
in London. RCSSD boasts an alumni the likes of Judi Dench, Laurence Olivier,
Christina Scott Thomas, Rufus Sewell, Vanessa Redgrave and Harold Pinter.
Gopie is a recipient of the
prestigious Oppenheimer and Guilford scholarships which enabled him to study
abroad. At RCSSD he specialised in coaching for screen and studied under
coaching mentors Amanda Brennan (Head of Screen acting at RCSSD), Mel Churcher
(Acting Coach on Narnia, Harry Potter) and Geoff Coleman (Star Trek, Mirmax
acting consultant), all world class coaches in the UK and US.
Gopie
has extensive experience producing theatre at community, university and
professional level across the country, and has acted in local and international
films as well as in television series such as Scandal and Zero
Tolerance. His stage work repertoire includes his acclaimed and
much-travelled self-penned solo show Out of Bounds and his ensemble
piece The Coolie Odyssey, as well as playing the lead in
Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the Baxter Theatre under the direction of Dame Janet
Suzman.
The
course takes place from January 15 to February 4 at the Thekwini College
(former Springfield training college), Asherville Campus, 262 Daintree Avenue,
Asherville. For
more information contact: 082 872 5487 or email: popupstudio101@gmail.com.
Participant numbers are limited!
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