Community Workshops
Thursday 10 – Friday 11 September 2026
Punchdrunk is hosting two free workshops with actor and theatre practitioner Kat McGarr this September. The workshops take place on separate days and explore different areas of theatre-making. You are welcome to apply for either workshop, or both, but you must sign up for each workshop separately.
Both workshops are part of an Arts Council-funded project surrounding STARDUST Starring Star Dust (In Person), a comedy, clown, cabaret and theatre show Kat has been developing that was born out of personal grief.
How to apply
Both workshops are free and open to anyone aged 18+, and no previous experience is required.
The workshops have separate sign-up forms in the links above. You can apply for one or both workshops. If you would like to attend both, please complete both forms.
Spaces are very limited. Applicants living in the Royal Borough of Greenwich are strongly encouraged to apply.
The deadline to apply is midday on Friday 4 September. Participants for each workshop will be selected at random, with 12 spaces for each workshop set aside for applicants living in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
Successful applicants will be contacted by Monday 7 September. Please note that we will not be contacting unsuccessful applicants.
Workshops
This workshop invites participants to explore how our lived experiences can become a starting point for making theatre. Through playful, practical and reflective exercises, you’ll explore ways of transforming personal memories, feelings, stories and fragments of experience into creative material for performance.
With a particular focus on grief and loss, you’ll consider how these experiences might be explored through the body, voice, movement, writing and text, and in the compositions created together.
Thursday 10 September, 10am–2pm (four hours)
Punchdrunk’s Woolwich site, The Carriageworks, 5 Carriage Street, Royal Arsenal, London SE18 6DJ
20 available for those aged 18+
Back by popular demand, join actor and theatre practitioner Kat McGarr for this playful introduction to the world of comedy and clowning.
Through games, improvisation and practical exercises drawn from Kat’s career – and influenced by her training with Philippe Gaulier and The Groundlings – you’ll explore some of the core techniques performers use to discover humour, connect with an audience, and embrace the freedom of being gloriously ridiculous.
Friday 11 September, 10am–2pm (four hours)
Punchdrunk’s Woolwich site, The Carriageworks, 5 Carriage Street, Royal Arsenal, London SE18 6DJ
20 available for those aged 18+