Open Viewpointing Sessions with FPAC, from 13 October 2025

The Folkestone Performing Arts Company is excited to extend an offer of a 6-week training course on The Viewpoints, an improvisation technique developed by the theatre director Ann Bogart in the United States.

Through working with the Viewpoints, the course will focus on playing with form through responding to outside stimulus rather than the interior psychology of a character. This creates a highly collaborative ensemble and a fresh and dynamic approach to theatre making.

FPAC is a pioneering proponent of this technique and the only theatre company in Kent to use it in ongoing training and new work development; this use of Viewpoints gives the FPAC Ensemble a distinctive voice in theatre-making.

If you are interested in learning more about FPAC or the Viewpoints, please get in touch.

Sessions start on 13 October 2025 from 6.30 to 9pm with a free taster session at the Sunflower House, Folkestone and then on the following dates: 20, 27 October; 3, 10, 24 November. New sessions will start in early 2026 as well. The 6 sessions [including the free taster] will cost £50.

Matthew Hahn, the artistic director of FPAC, has been working in the Viewpoints technique for 30 years having first encountered Anne Bogart in university. Since then, he has trained with Ms. Bogart at the Abbey Theatre and Central School of Speech & Drama and with her company, SITI, in New York City. He has also led numerous Viewpoints workshops at RADA, Central School of Speech & Drama, & Goldsmiths College, amongst other drama schools and universities. As an international theatre director, he has co-created productions utilizing the technique to build ensembles and to devise new work.