New Online Course for 26
Capturing and Using Images
Tuesdays Jan 20 – Feb 24, 2026
11am – 1pm ET or 4pm – 6pm Irish Time
$175 Can or 110€.
6 weeks
For the next six classes we are going to take a deep dive into developing the imagination; harvesting and capturing images for character, atmosphere and situation, to enrich our work; be it for film, theatre, auditions or self taping.
This is important for not only developing acting skills, but all creative work.
Working online gives the artist time and space to really develop their skills to both look inward at their own process and look outward to their scene partners.
Tutors Rena Polley and Max Hafler have extensive experience in working both online and in-the-room.
If you wish to book for these classes you can apply to Rena at michaelchekhovcanada@gmail.com
or Max on chekhovtpi@gmail.com
We suggest that if you are in Canada you pay Rena and if you are in Europe you can pay Max in euro
FINDING THE WORLD OF THE PLAY
Tutors Max Hafler and Roberta Nolan.
Finding the world of the play is very important if you want your character to fit into the frame of the artistic production. Without that frame we can often be at sea as artists. How often have we said, "Well this or that actor was very good, but not really connected to the production."It can be deeply unsatisfying
A good element in the Michael Chekhov approach is the use of General Atmosphere . Chekhov called it "the soul of the performance". The atmosphere affects everything the characters do, the style, the mood and weight of the play and most importantly the audience pick up this intangible feel from the performance which set design and lighting cannot sustain alone.
Finding the atmosphere gives the performance a wholeness (Chekhov calls it a Feeling of the Whole) in which your performance can grow and develop.
Using exercises and principles from the Michael Chekhov Approach and short early scenes from Hamlet, Roberta and Max will explore how atmosphere affects a scene or indeed powers an entire play.
Maximum number 16.
Day fee €50/ €30 students/concessions