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Improvising Shakespeare Workshop
Saturday May 10th, 3-6pm & Sunday May 11th 3-6pm
Plus there will be a class performance at the PIT Sunday May 11th at 8pm
Cost $100 a person
Email pit_nyc@yahoo.com to register
www.thepit-nyc.com for more info
What is it?:
Improvising Shakespeare - Improvising in the style of Shakespeare, discovering the intensity of the form, using it to propel, heighten and enrich your other work.
Shakespeare scenes are some of the easiest and most liberating scenes you will ever do on stage. Does that sound like crazy talk? In this workshop, any lingering fear of ol' Willy the Shake will be banished completely and forever, like some contumelious, pusillanimous, whey-faced ballcock. You will learn the true and proper ways to use "Thee, Thou, and Thy" and will quickly saunter about able to spout off in Elizabethan English on any subject. And you'll want to. We'll cover plot devices, basic Shakespeare scene/story structure, character names and types, methods, approaches, and some just plain cheap hacky tricks. Shakespeare is about passion - his characters FEEL things. The tools he provides you are some of the best ever devised: the aside, the soliloquy, the mystical fairies and sprites whose capricious wills are visited upon poor hapless mortals. In what other scene can you pause and just tell the audience something? Ah, the sweet, sweet power! And the workshop isn't just about Shakespeare - it's about heightening your scene work, intensifying your character work and broadening your narrative approach. In two short days you will master all the ingredients necessary to create a fully improvised Shakespeare scene. And there's a hand out. Audiences love Shakespeare and so will you, after this most enlightening of workshops.
Saturday May 10th, 3-6pm & Sunday May 11th 3-6pm
Plus there will be a class performance at the PIT Sunday May 11th at 8pm
Cost $100 a person
Email pit_nyc@yahoo.com to register
www.thepit-nyc.com for more info
What is it?:
Improvising Shakespeare - Improvising in the style of Shakespeare, discovering the intensity of the form, using it to propel, heighten and enrich your other work.
Shakespeare scenes are some of the easiest and most liberating scenes you will ever do on stage. Does that sound like crazy talk? In this workshop, any lingering fear of ol' Willy the Shake will be banished completely and forever, like some contumelious, pusillanimous, whey-faced ballcock. You will learn the true and proper ways to use "Thee, Thou, and Thy" and will quickly saunter about able to spout off in Elizabethan English on any subject. And you'll want to. We'll cover plot devices, basic Shakespeare scene/story structure, character names and types, methods, approaches, and some just plain cheap hacky tricks. Shakespeare is about passion - his characters FEEL things. The tools he provides you are some of the best ever devised: the aside, the soliloquy, the mystical fairies and sprites whose capricious wills are visited upon poor hapless mortals. In what other scene can you pause and just tell the audience something? Ah, the sweet, sweet power! And the workshop isn't just about Shakespeare - it's about heightening your scene work, intensifying your character work and broadening your narrative approach. In two short days you will master all the ingredients necessary to create a fully improvised Shakespeare scene. And there's a hand out. Audiences love Shakespeare and so will you, after this most enlightening of workshops.