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The 2011 Poel Event
was held on the 4th October 2011,
at the National Theatre, London
The 2011 Poel Event comprised a day of free classes and workshops - run by leading members of the profession - for twenty selected actors and directors, to examine ways of making classic plays audible, comprehensible and credible. Two of the four workshops were held in the Olivier Theatre.
Workshop leaders were:
Actor, Henry Goodman
Director, Lindsay Posner
National Theatre voice coach, Jeanette Nelson,
and voice specialist, Barbara Houseman
The Poel Event 2011 was supported by The SPOTLIGHT
The Poel Event focuses on working for audible, comprehensible and believable speech in plays from the English classical repertoire. It is open to actors and directors, in their first ten years of work, who are interested in working on dramatic pieces to engage fully with characterisation, communication, and vocal delivery.
The STR organises this event in celebration of the pioneering work, at the start of the twentieth century, of actor-director William Poel, in reforming the staging of Shakespearian and early English drama, in exploring the lucidity of production afforded by the Elizabethan playhouse and in his application of a musical sensitivity to the actor's speech to fully engage the audience.
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