Focus is on developing character and relationships as written in a text.
Acting Shakespeare
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Learn how to take Shakespeare's gorgeous poetry and make it sound natural coming from your mouth. Focus is on learning text and giving it meaning for yourself as the actor and for your audience.
Acting In
Musicals
Lyrics as dialogue
Don't just sing it, bring it to life.
Focus is on acting the song so
that it is part of the scene, not just a pretty song.
Safety and Realism
Learn the basics of stage fighting from an experienced combatant/choreographer. Then focus on making the fights part of the story.
Techniques include:
Unarmed, rapier, rapier/dagger, small sword, unconventional weapons,
comic fighting.
Directing
Director as storyteller
Focus is on applying every aspect of the theatre - working with staff, working with actors, creating the spectacle - to the telling of the story.
Voice and Movement For
The Stage
Living the character's life in your own body.
Focus is on a clear, full voice and developing natural movement on stage.