A Day in the Space | Glenn Hayden

To restore the joy that was always there.

Joy in the craft is not something lost.

It is simply covered.

To know the instrument you already have.

A Day in the Space asks what is actually serving you — and what is simply in the way.

To make methodology personal.

Great acting traditions — not subjects to study. Tools to be felt until they speak.

To put the actor back in charge of their own craft.

Every tradition here is in service of you. Leave with the ownership of it.

What's Your Scene is a day for actors who are actively working on scene work with colleagues and want to put it through something real. This is a free session with Glenn Hayden

You bring the work. We bring the rigour. Working entirely within the principles of via negativa — removing what is unnecessary until only what is essential remains. No more, no less.

There is no teaching, no audience, no assessment. Just a room, the work, and the honest question of what the scene actually needs.

Registering for Whats Your Scene -

Date - 16th July

Time - 10am to 5pm

Venue - ABHYAAS MANCH - Aram Nagar 1st Floor Plot no 131, Glows, opp. Joseph Patel Part 1, Aram Nagar, Versova, Andheri West, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400061

How to Register

This is a first-in-first-served registration - numbers are limited
A representative of your scene registers through the form - HERE.
You will be required to give name, Email, Phone of each cast member.

What you Bring

A rehearsed scene - MAXIMUM scene length 5 minutes
Maximum cast numbers - 3
Minimal props/no set
English is preferred but not mandatory

As always, those registered with ADITS get first access to sign up. Have you subscribed yet?

A commitment to the via negativa.

Grotowski suggested that what gets in the way of an actor's presence is rarely what's missing — it's what has built up over time. Technique, habits, professional caution; all part of the work, but not always part of the performance.

The via negativa is simply the practice of looking at those things honestly. Not throwing them away, but asking what still serves you and what no longer does.

A Day in the Space is a playground for that process.

"Ours then is a via negativa — not a collection of skills but an eradication of blocks." — Jerzy Grotowski

The fee - the first thing we subtract.

Professional development for working actors is expensive, inconsistent, and often more concerned with product than with craft. A Day in the Space asks only that you bring yourself.

The via negativa is built on the principle of removing what is in the way. A fee would simply be contradictory.

At the close of each session a voluntary contribution toward the cost of the venue is welcomed — whatever each participant is able and willing to give.

The work is the point. The door is open.

Not for everyone... Deliberately.

A Day in the Space is designed for practitioners who already have a working relationship with the craft. The minimum requirement of three years of training or practice is not a gatekeeping measure — it is a practical one.

This is not a program of learning. It is a program of excavation. The via negativa only has something to work with when there is something already there to uncover. Without that foundation the day cannot do what it is designed to do.

This is not a space for beginners. It is built for the actor who has done the work and is ready to find out what is underneath it.

What's in it for me?

After forty years as a teacher, director, facilitator — and ten of them as an actor — the methodologies I work with have become the way I think. Grotowski, Stanislavski, Chekhov, Meisner, Adler, Linklater, Berry, Viewpoints, Laban — not a curriculum, but a way of understanding the craft. They arrive in the room not as theory, but as responses to what is actually happening.

A Day in the Space comes from a simple question: not what can I add, but what actually matters. Grotowski's via negativa is more than a training principle. It is a way of looking at a life in the arts. There is nothing quite like watching an actor flourish — not because you gave them something, but because you got out of the way.

I also know the fear actors carry — the need to get it right. I carried it myself. In my experience, that fear is one of the biggest obstacles between an actor and their best work. A Day in the Space creates a room where getting it right is not the point.

Show up fully. See what happens.

How to be involved

A Day in the Space runs periodically in Mumbai. Places are strictly limited and allocated first in, first served.

Register your interest and we will add you to our list. You will receive information about upcoming sessions and registration links as they are announced. Registered artists hear two days before we go public.

If you are based outside Mumbai and would like to see A Day in the Space come to your city, contact Glenn directly. We would like to hear from you.