Playing The Space You're In - Acting Workshop
Line up: Colin Hurley

About the Workshop

‘Receive’ rather than ‘transmit’.

Given a little encouragement, Colin has found that actors can work out how to play a space very quickly, if we’re on ‘receive’ rather than ‘transmit’. Gently and playfully, we’ll just notice the space we’re in, and become ‘masters’ of it.

We’ll canter through a series of light-spirited, enjoyable exercises, playing with Circles of Concentration, proximity, eye-contact, and ‘walking the angles’.

We will be on our feet a lot of the time, but nothing risky or too energetic. There will be time for discussion, but it will be specifically reflecting on our experience and discoveries while playing on our feet, rather than general theorising.

About Colin Hurley:
 

Colin has been acting for fifty years, mostly in plays by dead people. After ten years in various Rep Theatres - Salisbury, Leatherhead, Ipswich, Clwyd, Chester - he went on to perform with The Royal National Theatre (including a world tour of Richard III and King Lear), The Royal Shakespeare Company (most recently as Brabantio in Othello), and Shakespeare’s Globe, where he appeared in a couple of dozen productions including Toby Belch in Twelfth Night at The Globe, in the West End and on Broadway.

For the first half of 2026 he has been touring the North of England with Hull Truck Theatre Company, playing Duncan and The Porter in Macbeth, as well as pop-up performances of Lear’s Shadow in The Godber Studio, Derby Studio, and Manchester’s 53two.

A dedicated Theatre Bunny, Colin has also occasionally appeared on screen. Recent TV includes Dreamland, Stath Lets Flats and Flowers. Films include Black Pond, The Darkest Universe and Portraits of Dangerous Women. He also teaches classical acting students at LAMDA and trains with experimental pop-up guerrilla theatre company The Factory.

Four sons. Four. He counted them. No other pets.