We're looking for budding actors and directors to participate in a long-weekend acting workshop and showcase!

The Garden of Love Company is comprised of Iain McClure (playwright), Aileen Gonsalves and Tracy Irish (theatre professionals) who cannot wait to collaborate with the Pembroke Players and bring their expertise in theatre and writing to budding directors and actors at Cambridge.

The Garden of Love, is a three-act exploration of atoms, time, empire and our fallen world and is set in Pembroke College (hence the collaboration with the Pembroke Players!)

This workshop aims to share Aileen Gonsalves' pioneering approach to acting and connecting with the written word, her 'Gonsalves Method' that is strongly linked to the Meisner Method.

The event involves:

• Friday afternoon: A brief introduction to the Gonsalves Method
• Saturday: A Gonsalves Method one-day workshop to teach the basic elements of Aileen’s interpretation and practice of the ideas and work of Stanton Meisner, which has been explored in Aileen and Tracy’s two recent books, Shakespeare and Meisner (The Arden Shakespeare publishers) and The Gonsalves Method Meisner Updated for the Modern Actor (to be published later this year by Bloomsbury).
• Sunday: Further work stemming from this workshop on the text of The Garden of Love, especially the parts pertaining to Pembroke College. Culminating with a showcase of actors performing excerpts of the text.