“We want to encourage a world of creators, of inventors, of contributors, because this world that we live in, this interactive world, is ours." Ayah Bdeir, Engineer & Creative Thinker

We set up Firecracker, a theatre group for young people, because we wanted to play our part in encouraging creators through productions and masterclasses.

Master Classes AUTUMN 2016

This autumn  Hydrocracker is offering 3 new Master Classes.

ALL MASTER CLASSES ARE AT BRIGHTON DOME

16th October, 2016, 10.30 – 4.30
HOW TO MASTER AN ACCENT
Mary Howland
Mary Howland is a leading freelance accent and dialect coach, who teaches at a number of top British Drama schools. She has an MA from the Central School of Speech and Drama in Voice Studies. She coaches privately, and has worked on a number of film and BBC productions.
 
The opening part of the accent workshop is learning how to listen when faced with an accent challenge. What habits can you listen out for - intonation, pronunciation, and physicality. The second half of the workshop will look at how these apply to a so-called 'General American' accent, and then how to move from that to a regional US accent.
Scripts will be provided.
 
13th November, 2016, 10.30–4.30
STAGE FIGHTING
Jonathan Jaynes
Jonathan is an actor and fight choreographer.  His fight credits include fights for Manchester Royal Exchange, Theatre Clwyd, Salisbury Playhouse, The National Theatre, The Wolsey Theatre Ipswich and the Stafford Shakespear festival. He also teaches stage-combat at various drama schools including Lamda and Guildhall. For the past few years he has sat as one of the judges at Lamda’s highly competitive ‘Fight-Night’.     
The workshop will share the secrets of stage combat technique – partner awareness, distance, timing and intention- and will end up with a mass group brawl!


20th November, 2016,  10.30–4.30
AUDITION TECHNIQUE
Need help with an audition speech? Whether you’re auditioning for drama school, a theatre production, the school play or just want to master a speech  Hydrocracker will bring in an experienced professional actor to unlock the actors toolbox and help you crack the next audition.
Bring a learnt audition speech you want to work on but we will provide speeches for those who don’t have a piece to work on. 


 Suitable for anyone willing to give it a go.....

Tickets £20 per class or £45 for all three

Book via Brighton Dome Box Office: 01273 709709
or tickets@brightondome.org
 

Home straight 
a nightingale/hydrocracker/firecracker co-production 
Brighton racecourse  July 2015 

Home Straight video courtesy of Julian Kerridge


In July 2015 The Nightingale and Hydrocracker presented 'Home Straight', a new play made with and performed by young people in East Brighton at Brighton Racecourse, one of the Brighton's best-known landmarks. 

'Home Straight' explored the stories and people of this frequently overlooked part of the city. Focusing on the same house over four different eras, it took audiences on a promenade journey from the 1800s, when railway workers were busy constructing the brand new London to Brighton Railway, through the destruction of WW2, and the social transformation of the 1960s, up until the present day. 

Written by Frank McCabe (founding associate, Two Bins, writer: Ten Men, The Lives of John Bindon), it was directed by Julian Kerridge (director SEAMONSTERS and the internet drama series CELIA AND CHLOE co-produced by Disney and seen by over three million people in seven countries) and further supported by production manager Gabriel Burden and designer Victoria Johnstone.