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Text Work: John Webster’s The White Devil with Ray Porter

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Published January 15, 2019 | Last Updated January 29, 2019 Leave your thoughts »

Ray in LA BETE at OSF

  The following is the text work session taken from the full episode with Ray. In this excerpt, Ray will be discussing a speech from John Webster’s The White Devil, which is a Jacobean play and comes in the period right after Shakespeare. As Ray shared, plays in this period were much darker and a definite […]

Filed Under: Podcast, Text Work Tagged With: explicit, jacobean, oregon, shakespeare, text work, theatre, webster

Text Work: Jessica Dickey’s The Rembrandt with Francis Guinan

Published November 20, 2018 | Last Updated June 3, 2020 Leave your thoughts »

Francis in The Rembrandt

The following is the text work session taken from the full episode with Francis. In this excerpt we discuss performing a speech from Jessica Dickey’s The Rembrandt, which premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago in 2017 with Francis in the cast, alongside John Mahoney (known by many as the dad on Frasier), and who was also another longtime ensemble […]

Filed Under: Podcast, Text Work Tagged With: art, chicago, confidence, museum, painting, rehearsal, theatre

Text Work: Harold Pinter’s The Hothouse with Peter Van Norden

Published September 11, 2018 | Last Updated November 19, 2018 Leave your thoughts »

  The following is a re-airing of Peter’s text work session taken from the full episode with him. In this excerpt we discuss performing a speech from Harold Pinter’s The Hothouse.   About the guest Peter Van Norden graduated magna cum laude from Colgate University, and studied with Sanford Meisner and many others at the Neighborhood […]

Filed Under: Podcast, Text Work Tagged With: antaeus, career, growth, pauses, pinter, questions, theatre

Text Work: Mike Bartlett’s King Charles III with Nike Doukas

Published September 4, 2018 | Last Updated November 19, 2018 Leave your thoughts »

Nike Doukas in King Charles III

  The following is a re-airing of Nike’s text work session taken from the full episode with her. In this excerpt we discuss performing a speech from Mike Bartlett’s King Charles III.   Nike Doukas is a fantastic actress, director, teacher, and accent coach. Originally from Massachusetts (same as me!), Nike studied at the University of […]

Filed Under: Podcast, Text Work Tagged With: blank verse, iambic pentameter, language, mike bartlett, preparation, questions, shakespeare, text work, theatre

Text Work: Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead with Geoffrey Wade

Published August 21, 2018 | Last Updated November 19, 2018 Leave your thoughts »

  The following is a re-airing of Geoffrey’s text work session taken from the full episode with him. In this excerpt we discuss performing THE PLAYER from Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.   Geoffrey Wade (@geoffreywade) is an actor, director, teacher, photographer, and acting coach, and he was recently in the national tour of The Curious […]

Filed Under: Podcast, Text Work Tagged With: hamlet, preparation, shakespeare, text work, theatre, tom stoppard

Text Work: Noel Coward’s Mrs. Worthington and Shakespeare’s King Lear with Harry Groener

Published August 14, 2018 | Last Updated November 19, 2018 Leave your thoughts »

Harry as Noel Coward

  The following is a re-airing of Harry’s text work session taken from the full episode with him. In this excerpt we discuss singing a Noel Coward song and performing Shakespeare’s King Lear.   Harry Groener is probably most familiar to audiences for his musical theatre work in New York, as well as being a series […]

Filed Under: Podcast, Text Work Tagged With: broadway, musical theatre, noel coward, preparation, shakespeare, singing, text work, theatre

Text Work: Shakespeare’s Henry VI with Armin Shimerman

Published August 7, 2018 | Last Updated November 19, 2018 Leave your thoughts »

Armin as Richard

  The following is a re-airing of Armin’s text work session taken from the full episode with him.   You wanted these text work sessions as separate episodes and I’m happy to accommodate! First up, Armin talks about his general approach to Shakespeare and some of the overall principles he teaches in classes. In this excerpt we […]

Filed Under: Podcast, Text Work Tagged With: preparation, rhetoric, shakespeare, text work, theatre

Text Work: Mini-Shakespeare Master Class with Dakin Matthews

Published March 27, 2018 | Last Updated September 11, 2018 2 Comments - add more!

Dakin Matthews Master Class at USC

A great speech is like an aria: it has a musical structure, and it is normally clearly marked where the emotional climaxes are, if you know how to read the rhetoric. — Dakin Matthews   We have a BONUS episode today with a mini-Shakespeare master class with Dakin! This “class” is taken from the full conversation with […]

Filed Under: Podcast, Text Work Tagged With: audition, classics, confidence, emotion, friar lawrence, juliet, preparation, romeo, shakespeare, soliloquy, theatre, vial

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