MOON FOOL
  • Anna-Helena McLean
    • ANNA HELENA MCLEAN C.V.
    • Coaching & Corporate
  • MOON FOOL ENSEMBLE
  • Productions
    • INANNA - Work in Progress
    • TITANIA - A Solo Cabaret
    • STORM
    • Day and Night
  • ACT TRAINING
    • CURRENT PROGRAMMES
    • ACT International Residency 2021
    • ACT Online
    • Past Programmes
    • ACT Youth (Schools Programme)
  • Contact
  • BLOG
  • Anna-Helena McLean
    • ANNA HELENA MCLEAN C.V.
    • Coaching & Corporate
  • MOON FOOL ENSEMBLE
  • Productions
    • INANNA - Work in Progress
    • TITANIA - A Solo Cabaret
    • STORM
    • Day and Night
  • ACT TRAINING
    • CURRENT PROGRAMMES
    • ACT International Residency 2021
    • ACT Online
    • Past Programmes
    • ACT Youth (Schools Programme)
  • Contact
  • BLOG
Search
MOON FOOL regularly organises workshops and residencies in ACTOR - CHORUS - TEXT (ACT) Ensemble Practice, an original approach conceived by Anna-Helena McLean that generates ensemble theatre productions. ACT symbiotically interweaves music, movement and poetry to tell stories, while responding to and reinventing the given spatial location.

This training includes dynamic, physical and musical exercise covering:
​
Ensemble balance training
Physical partner listening
Chorus leading and gestures
Extended vocal techniques
Choral singing and close harmony
The Relational Actor
Rhythm and breath awareness
Dynamic speech work
Musical Dramaturgy and composition
Structured improvisation
Collaboration and devising
Crafting music theatre for production

The training is applied to an exploration of archetypes in stories from around the world, often drawing on scene extracts from classical texts including Shakespeare and the Ancient Greeks, to generate original ensemble works of theatre. ACT currently runs a Lab between East Sussex and London called 'ACT Sex' which trains weekly to generate online coaching, works-in-progress and new works exploring radical feminist texts, identity, authority, gender and interpretation and the meaning of 'embodied' practice today.
Click here to find out about upcoming workshops
"ACT truly aims for living up to the expectations of creating a heightened reality on stage. No drama or production or a story telling medium should overlook such a process even if it is filtered or edited in later stages of productions to nuanced levels. I would suggest every actor to experience this training" 
Anuj Choudhry, Actor participating in ACT India 2015

"When engaging in a physical workshop with Anna-Helena McLean, it is not only the body that is activated, but also the mind and the spirit.  She is an incredible leader. Her power as a performer is both admirable and awe-inspiring, but her greatest ability is to inspire in others a stronger belief in their own abilities. I enthusiastically endorse her workshops for performers and non-performers alike". 
Director of Sideway Theater and MFA student DePaul Chicago, 2015

“... The texture of your work weaves physicality and words together with a musicality that penetrates all levels of what takes place in the space... in the 10 days we had, what came out was absolutely incredible, and I deeply admire every single person I worked alongside. The combination of people, your brilliant leadership, the space, and Shakespeare’s text, really really worked for me... we were actually there for each other all throughout the piece when we performed, which is remarkable and a real treasure to take away”. 
Workshop Participant 2014


    JOIN OUR MAILING LIST

Subscribe to Newsletter
  • Anna-Helena McLean
    • ANNA HELENA MCLEAN C.V.
    • Coaching & Corporate
  • MOON FOOL ENSEMBLE
  • Productions
    • INANNA - Work in Progress
    • TITANIA - A Solo Cabaret
    • STORM
    • Day and Night
  • ACT TRAINING
    • CURRENT PROGRAMMES
    • ACT International Residency 2021
    • ACT Online
    • Past Programmes
    • ACT Youth (Schools Programme)
  • Contact
  • BLOG