<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/2309772/fan_mail/new">Send us Fan Mail</a>Patsy sits down with old friend and colleague; renowned theatre director, author and teacher Mike Alfreds. They discuss craft, discipline and the actor being both the creator and the creation. Enjoy!

Patsy Rodenburg – Craft: Sweat and Joy

Patsy Rodenburg and Mike Alfreds

Living in the Age of Absence - Community, Care and Courtesy

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/2309772/fan_mail/new">Send us Fan Mail</a>A new series in which Patsy discusses craft and the importance of being present.

The Craft of Being Present

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/2309772/fan_mail/new">Send us Fan Mail</a>A new series in which Patsy discusses the craft and importance of being present.

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/2309772/fan_mail/new">Send us Fan Mail</a>In this episode Patsy sits down in the drawing room of old friend Judi Dench who is widely considered one of Britain&apos;s finest actors. They discuss Shakespeare, craft, tree hugging and much more.

Patsy Rodenburg and Judi Dench

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/2309772/fan_mail/new">Send us Fan Mail</a>In this episode Patsy talks to Jacqui O’Hanlon, Director of learning at the RSC. She has worked with Jacqui for more than twenty years,  and they discuss their mutual passion for spoken learning and teaching Shakespeare to young people.

Patsy Rodenburg and Jacqui O’Hanlon

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/2309772/fan_mail/new">Send us Fan Mail</a>In this episode Patsy talks with Mark Dacascos, one of the most respected martial artists in the world. They have worked together for almost twenty years and have a mutual respect for the craft. He is a Patsy Rodenburg Associate and teaches Patsy&apos;s work worldwide.

Patsy Rodenburg and Mark Dacascos

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/2309772/fan_mail/new">Send us Fan Mail</a>In which Patsy speaks with friend, broadcaster, journalist and presenter Emma Barnett

Patsy Rodenburg and Emma Barnett

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/2309772/fan_mail/new">Send us Fan Mail</a>In which Patsy speaks with friend, colleague, actor, director and coach and Larry Moss.

Patsy Rodenburg and Larry Moss

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/2309772/fan_mail/new">Send us Fan Mail</a>In which Patsy speaks with friend, colleague and Palliative Medicine Consultant Dr Chris Farnham.

Patsy Rodenburg and Dr. Chris Farnham: Presence and Healing

Arts

In the first two podcasts of her series, Patsy Rodenburg and her colleague, Eliot Shrimpton discuss the erosion of craft in teaching, artistry and leadership. Practising and teaching craft takes a mixture of resilience and humility. Craft requires hours of repetition and reworked correction when taught to inexperienced students. It takes time and is therefore expensive to teach. However, the benefits of learning an embodied practice are limitless; not only in maintaining excellence in the performing arts but in the actual process of physical learning. Craft is about doing; it is beyond explanation or a reading list. It is learning that can’t be bluffed or taken from A.I.. The results are clear and seen; heard, felt and experienced. Through repetition craft becomes organic. It frees and focuses the imagination. It allows the craftsperson to pour their body, mind, heart and spirit into what they are making. And with the hard work comes the joy. The joy of achievement, nailing it, consistency, invention and transformation. Once you have succeeded in learning one craft, the door opens and you can apply the same working processes to any other craft. It is a transferable skill. Everyone can learn craft. It is not a secret known to a few but a discipline that our species developed very early in our evolution. Everyone, in every community, learned how to work in this way; so known and relevant to our survival that we have taken craft for granted. Someone showed a child how to weave a basket or knap an arrowhead. Every so often a child found joy in making the basket and then excelled at basket making. Better baskets changed their community for better. Craft is essential if you want to excel. It is the journey towards your chosen profession; the team, the band, the guild, the ensemble. ------------------------------ Patys would like to say thank you to the following for making the podcast series a reality: Gareth Price Lewis&nbsp; - Chatterbox AudioKate Fenton - Chatterbox AudioJohn Yiannaki - JY Productions Ltd.Athena Yiannakis - JY Productions Ltd.Eliot Shrimpton

Patsy Rodenburg and Mike Alfreds

Patsy Rodenburg – Craft: Sweat and Joy

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