Roo Jhala McLaughlin

Roo Jhala McLaughlin trained as an actor at Oxford School of Drama and graduated as their first student director in 2003. Roo returned to India in 2004 where she established Tambourine Theatre with her partner Liam McLaughlin. Tambourine Theatre runs workshops at the beginner, intermediate and advance levels and often tailor courses to suit individual and group requirements.

Event Description: An Improvisational Theatre workshop celebrating Shakespeare and his plays.
To celebrate the BIS Lit Fest, Tambourine Theatre Company gives you 'Shakespeare at Play', a workshop in which we will dabble in Shakespeare's most colorful expressions and words to explore the different energies we use on stage. Words can punch, press, glide, dab, flick, slash, wring or float, according to the text and what a character may need to do at any given time. We will also tap into an improvisational acting 'book' game, as we explore characters and scenarios from a range of the greatest and most well known Shakespeare plays…a process full of twists and turns, magic, comedy and drama, slight madness and timeless dilemmas.

Book recommendations for middle schoolers:

• King of Shadows by Susan Cooper
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Wonder by R J Palacio
• Marcia Williams Comics
• Animated Tales by Leon Garfield
• Shakespeare Stories I & II by Leon Garfield