John Bolton |
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John Bolton is a highly accomplished actor, director and master teacher. John has been awarded the Kenneth Myer Medallion for Outstanding Services to Theatre, the VCA Teaching Excellence Award and two Green Room Awards for My Brother the Fish. He was Director of Theatre at the Theatre Workshop, Edinburgh and co-founded Artworks, a theatre company performing throughout Scotland and Europe. John was Head of Acting at the Victorian College of the Arts and is currently an Associate Artist at the VCA. He founded the John Bolton Theatre School and has lectured at WAAPA and the Drama Action Centre, Sydney. John trained at the reputed Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris. |
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He toured internationally with his solo show Bum's Ride and was invited to join the Toronto International Festival in The Tempest. He also toured his solo show Jumping Mouse throughout the USA, Scotland and Australasia and he was invited to perform at the Dublin Festival. John has directed numerous plays at The Malthouse Theatre, Theatreworks, Melbourne International Festival, Adelaide International Festival, Belvoir Street Theatre, Gasworks and Zootango Theatre in Hobart to name a few. John's Philosophy The Neutral mask is one of the basic building blocks for any form of acting. It is acting without any idiosyncrasies. It is before character, where every impulse is embodied, where every movement is essential and the actor is perfectly revealed. The students' imagination is allowed free reign to move beyond the ordinary into the rhythms of the natural world and the most important of human encounters. In the words of Bari Rolfe: The Mask conceals, and by concealing, reveals. |
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