On the second floor of the PAC there is a workshop sign-up sheet for a FREE workshop for our students. Stephen Fried has directed Shakespeare at the Shakespeare Theatre of NJ and the Trinity and Illinois Shakespeare Festivals. He holds a BA in Drama and History from Stanford University and an MFA in directing from the Yale School of Drama.
This man knows his Shakespeare and has been asked to direct and teach all over the US.
As he is here at Theatre VCU directing Shakespeare's R & J, Stephen has graciously agreed to present a 5-day workshop intensive exclusively for the first 15 students who sign up.
How seriously do you take your education?
Why would any performance major miss this opportunity?
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Here are the details:
Stephen Fried presents
A Shakespeare Workshop
Monday, September 19 through Friday, September 23
from 4:00PM-6:00PM in PAC 72.
A Shakespeare Workshop
Monday, September 19 through Friday, September 23
from 4:00PM-6:00PM in PAC 72.
12 participants, 13 observers - 25 total • first-come first-served.
If you sign up, you must be able to participate in all 5 days!
Each of the participants should choose a monologue from Shakespeare
to work on over the course of the week.
A few rules about the monologues:
1) It must be verse (for the sake of this workshop, prose speeches are a lot less useful)
2) It should be somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 to 30 lines of verse.
3) Please make it an actual monologue, speech or soliloquy -- i.e., please don’t try to cobble something together by cutting out another character or splicing things together.
4) Please make it a speech spoken by an actual character, and not a chorus.
5) It should be a role that the student could reasonably be cast in within the next 5 years
(and for the purposes of this workshop, pick a role that’s your same gender).
6) Be willing to change if someone else has chosen the same monologue.
7) Pick a truly great speech -- well-known speeches are fine with me -- so don’t feel like you have to go to ‘The Two Noble Kinsmen’ to find a speech that nobody’s heard. It will be more useful for us to be working on something that’s a sample of Shakespeare at his best (even if it’s ‘To be or not to be’) than spending our time digging through the Jailor’s Daughter’s speech or something from Henry VIII.
8) Do choose a speech that challenges you in some way -- in which the language might be just a bit beyond your ability to grasp instantly.
9) this is probably obvious from all the other stuff about the selection of pieces, but students should not use Sonnets as their pieces.
10) while I would love to have members of the male R&J cast in the room as observers, they should probably not be allowed to sign up as participants, as they’re getting a good deal of this material in R&J.
These speeches should be chosen NO LATER THAN MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, and submitted to Bonnie McCoy at bsmccoy@vcu.edu. Each participant should have his or her speech SOLIDLY memorized prior to the start of the workshop.
The basic thematic structure of the workshop will be as follows:
MONDAY: Meaning and Argument
TUESDAY: Imagery
WEDNESDAY: Scansion and Rhythm
THURSDAY: Sound and Musicality
FRIDAY: Putting it all together
Participants won’t be ‘up’ every day -- but rather, on each day, we’ll look at a few of the pieces people are working on that make especially good examples for that day’s theme.
If you sign up, you must be able to participate in all 5 days!
Each of the participants should choose a monologue from Shakespeare
to work on over the course of the week.
A few rules about the monologues:
1) It must be verse (for the sake of this workshop, prose speeches are a lot less useful)
2) It should be somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 to 30 lines of verse.
3) Please make it an actual monologue, speech or soliloquy -- i.e., please don’t try to cobble something together by cutting out another character or splicing things together.
4) Please make it a speech spoken by an actual character, and not a chorus.
5) It should be a role that the student could reasonably be cast in within the next 5 years
(and for the purposes of this workshop, pick a role that’s your same gender).
6) Be willing to change if someone else has chosen the same monologue.
7) Pick a truly great speech -- well-known speeches are fine with me -- so don’t feel like you have to go to ‘The Two Noble Kinsmen’ to find a speech that nobody’s heard. It will be more useful for us to be working on something that’s a sample of Shakespeare at his best (even if it’s ‘To be or not to be’) than spending our time digging through the Jailor’s Daughter’s speech or something from Henry VIII.
8) Do choose a speech that challenges you in some way -- in which the language might be just a bit beyond your ability to grasp instantly.
9) this is probably obvious from all the other stuff about the selection of pieces, but students should not use Sonnets as their pieces.
10) while I would love to have members of the male R&J cast in the room as observers, they should probably not be allowed to sign up as participants, as they’re getting a good deal of this material in R&J.
These speeches should be chosen NO LATER THAN MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, and submitted to Bonnie McCoy at bsmccoy@vcu.edu. Each participant should have his or her speech SOLIDLY memorized prior to the start of the workshop.
The basic thematic structure of the workshop will be as follows:
MONDAY: Meaning and Argument
TUESDAY: Imagery
WEDNESDAY: Scansion and Rhythm
THURSDAY: Sound and Musicality
FRIDAY: Putting it all together
Participants won’t be ‘up’ every day -- but rather, on each day, we’ll look at a few of the pieces people are working on that make especially good examples for that day’s theme.
Come upstairs in the PAC and sign-up today!
Do not pass up this opportunity to hone your skills.
Brush up your Shakespeare Dudes!!!
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