Workshops

Interactive Workshops: Turn on the Lights of Inspiration and Knowledge

Shakespeare’s Staging Conditions 

Step into Shakespeare’s world and explore how the staging conditions he wrote for reveal insights about the plays and playing. 

• A One-Stop-Shop for understanding and performing Shakespeare; combining elements of embedded stage directions, character play, audience contact, and verse. 

Embedded Stage Directions 

Let the text direct by excavating the embedded directions for the stage out of Shakespeare’s dialogue. 

• An on-your-feet experience, where the entire group stages a scene together. Helps to strengthen confidence, critical reading, and decoding skills! 

 Verse 

Mine the texts for clues about choices available for the actor, alert to the patterns (and subverted patterns) of Shakespeare’s most common poetic meter. 

• Demystify ‘Iambic Pentameter’, decode Early Modern vocabulary, and strengthen creative writing. Emphasis on word choice, word order, and the intricacies of Shakespearean poetry. Appropriate for ages 12 and up.

Character Play 

Build your performance toolkit and “get into character” by making vocal and physical choices about Shakespeare’s text. 

• Shakespearean Acting 101: an exploration of an actor’s job and giving students tactics to Build-a-Character using their bodies. 

Audience Contact 

Learn how to collaborate with the ever-present scene partner, the audience, in this innovative and electrifying workshop.

Workshop Details:

• Cost: Starting at $20 per student. Free for teachers and chaperones
• Location: We come to you
• Workshops are for students ages 7 and up, with the exception of the workshop Verse

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