Shakespeare ~ Performance Skills
Suitable for Solo or Pairs
or Small Groups by arrangement
Course Content
Studying Shakespeare is one of the greatest joys of life! Exploring the plays and sonnets will be extraordinarily rewarding.
Whether you want to perform for fun or aim towards auditioning for a performance or to enter a specialist Shakespeare Acting Exam, you can be sure that this course will be enjoyable, exciting, challenging and absolutely fascinating.
You will be able to pursue your particular interests or avenues of exploration.
Shakespeare will transform all your acting! You will find out about the language and dig deep to explore the text and create truthful characters.
Current and past productions can be discussed and critiqued.
Deliberations about styles, settings and interpretations of the plays, referencing relevance to modern audiences can also be explored.
Your acting skills will rocket! Your love of the Bard will last a lifetime!
Course Content
A Shakespeare Course can be concentrated on Acting and Performance. Alternatively it can focus on Exploring a Play in depth for interest or study.
Course Content will be tailored to individual requirement, but typically, depending on preference, could include:
• Studying play/s (or Sonnets)
• Understanding Shakespeare’s language
• Verse Forms, Blank Verse, Iambic Pentameter, Prose
• The Question of the Play
• Themes and Issues.
• Outcomes
• Characters
• Much Discussion
• Performing Scenes / Speeches / Duologues
• Making choices – the Rehearsal Process
• Using your Voice
• Physicality
• Acting Techniques
• Sonnets
• Shakespeare’s Life and Times
• Tudor Theatre
• Shakespeare’s Contemporaries