TOR Toolbox Downloads
Check this space out every Friday for our Toolbox Downloads, which is split up into four sections; CURIOUS, CREATIVE, CALM and CONNECTION.

Week 2 - April 17th 2020

This week’s CURIOUS is an interview with The Awkward Years actor, Lauren O'Leary; discussing her experience at drama school, her first job after graduating, Matthew Bulgo and The Other Room's production The Awkward Years (2018) and much more.

In CREATIVE this week, The Other Room team are once again offering free writing exercises. Flex those creative muscles if you feel so inclined and let us know the results!

Trainee Director, Nerida Bradley, is offering exercises on mindfulness and body mapping in this week’s CALM.

CONNECTION includes an Album suggestion from Trainee Director, Nerida Bradley, art pick of the week by Press & Marketing Associate, Alys Hewitt, and Producer, George

TOR Toolbox Sound Fil April 17 2020

Week 3 - April 24th 2020

This week’s CURIOUS is an interview with Stage Manager, Theadore Hung; discussing experiance on The Other Room's bilingual production of Hela by Mari Izzard, working with Mathilde Lopez, the stigma and challenges that face stage managers who are pursuing a career as a writer/director.

In CREATIVE this week, we are talking about all things dialogue! Meditation is the theme of this week's CALM, presented by Trainee Director, Nerida Bradley.

CONNECTION includes an Album suggestion from Trainee Producer, Ben Clark, Art pick of the week by Producer, George Soave, Trainee Director, Nerida is suggesting our TV pick of the week and Artistic Director, Dan Jones talks us through his Spanish Paella recipe.

TOR Toolbox Sound File April 24 2020

Week 4 - May 1st 2020

This week’s CURIOUS we are delighted to present a blog (in Welsh and English) with actor/writers Gwawr Loader and Elin Philips, aka Criw Brwd; they discuss the origins of their company and the importance of Welsh Language work.

Found Poetry is our CREATIVE item in this instalment, followed by Mindfulness as this week’s CALM.

CONNECTION includes a recipe for Vegetable Dal from Trainee Producer, Ben, George’s Album suggestion, an Art pick by Associate Director, Matthew Holmquist and Artistic Director, Dan Jones’ film of the week.

TOR Toolbox Sound File May 1st

Want to know how to develop characters in your writing? Or fancy learning how to make a mean vegetable broth? 

Find out how to do all this and more in this week’s TOR Toolbox - full of recommendations and resources to help you stay curious, creative, calm and connected. 

Our fifth installment also includes a conversation between TOR’s current Trainee Director Nerida Bradley and former Trainee Director Samantha Alice Jones on Crave, the stunning production they both worked on last year at the theatre. Give it a listen!

TOR Toolbox Sound File May 8 2020

In this week’s CURIOUS we’re delighted to feature an interview with arts critic and host of the Critically Speaking podcast, Jafar Iqbal, on reviewing, critical culture and previous productions at The Other Room. 

Our CREATIVE segment looks at making new connections between existing ideas, and in this week’s CALM Trainee Director Nerida Bradley takes us through how to build a comfort box for moments when you feel anxious and overwhelmed.

CONNECTION includes a recipe for Leek and Puy Lentil Gratin from Producer George Soave, an album recommendation from Associate Director Matthew Holmquist, art pick from Trainee Producer Ben Clark and a film of the week from Press and Marketing Associate Alys Hewitt.

TOR Toolbox Sound File 15 May 2020

In this week’s CURIOUS segment, TOR’s Associate Director Matthew Holmquist talks to Tic Ashfield, a BAFTA Cymru award winning composer and sound designer, about her craft and her experiences so far, including working on various productions at The Other Room. 

Sevenling (seven line) poems are the theme of CREATIVE this week, while CALM features an exercise on drawing to music and expressing visually what you can hear. 

CONNECTION includes weekly recommendations from the team: a recipe for Falafel burgers from Press & Marketing Associate Alys Hewitt, album of the week from Trainee Producer Ben Clark, art pick from Artistic Director Dan Jones, and Associate Director Matthew’s film recommendation.

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