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Directing Fairy Tales; any thoughts? wisdom?

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What I do... (Actor, director, designer, teacher etc?): I am artistic director of the Jal Folk Theatre Company, and an actor, director and teacher at the Jal Folk Theatre School, also a life coach using early theatre skills which go back a very long way. I also help with organizing community projects which bring together both professionals and amateurs. I enjoy bringing performance skills out of those who think that theatre is beyond reach and only for those who are bold and confident enough to get up on a stage and do it. Within the Jal Folk Theatre we equate theatre with learning about the self, which makes any project a quite fascinating journey. Ancient folklore and early folk tales are all part of what I promote, bringing the earliest forms to the modern stage, which I find really exciting.

My Quick CV: I hail from Romani travelling players and musicians - who have some remarkable and useful performance technqiues. My great-grandfather was illiterate and both he and my grandmother schooled me in the Romani Gypsy way of doing things which probably stretch back hundreds if not thousands of years. I am an author of a book published by Harper Collins which took me on a tour of the USA. I'm also a workshop facilitator, and work as Performance/Workshop Co-ordinator for Boktalo Promotions (organizers of shows and events). I started the Jal Folk Theatre School properly in 2002 - because people liked the frank and to-the-point techniques and how it could enrich life, both on and off the stage. After working with mime for many years, again using the skills I'd learnt within the Romani Gypsy culture, I formed the Jal Folk Theatre Company, which travels the country giving performances and workshop on early forms of theatre and folklore experience within a theatre setting.

The first thing that inspired me in theatre...: Unquestionably Shakespeare. The folklore contained within Shakespeare is quite phenomenal as most people back in those days and in the days of Chaucer were much more folklore-oriented than we tend to believe. I find it immensely inspiring to look beyond the words, and if an actor can take me beyond his or her words into a world that most of us can relate to in life, then that is one of the most inspiring things. Early theatre when it contains a good dollop of folklore gives us so much life, feeling and somehow taps into an ancestral memory I believe we all have. You only have to look at the superstitions within theatre to know that folklore has always played a significant part! I believe the stage is a magical place. When we step upon it, we connect with who and what we are, big time!

My favourite theatre something is...: when people are unafraid to delve and find what they express every day of their lives. When someone dips and discovers that something that they otherwise feel obliged to hide, it's sheer magic.

The thing that annoys me about our industry...: Text-book actors! To 'act' means to do. And I don't admire people who don't dare to be personal, who believe that 'acting' isn't 'doing'. If we step outside the box and take a risk, in all kinds of ways, how fantastic that is!

My website: http://www.jal-arts.com

Another website I'd like to plug: http://www.boktalo.co.uk

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Jal Folk Theatre Company at the Goddess Shows!

The Jal Folk Theatre Company and its Romani Gypsy Folklore (both theatre for adults and kids, together with music) can be seen at the Goddess Show South taking place at Brighton Racecourse over the weekend 15th &16th March 2008. 10am-5pm, just £4 entrance fee. Boktalo Promotions, the organizers are always on the lookout for good quality artistic performers: storytellers, actors, dancers, musicians, as they're aiming to showcase quality artistic performance. There are great opportunities for… Continue

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Jal Folk Theatre Company at the Goddess Shows!

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