Our group will be working on Act 3, Scene 4 – where Hamlet verbally attacks his mother for marrying Claudius. We’ll be exploring the TWO sides of Hamlet with TWO different actors! Scenes from the Folger Shakespeare Library here. Hamlet Team – bios below: Get access to watch the REPLAYS of all sessions for only […]
Ep #28: James Newcomb (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Denver Center Theatre, Shakespeare & Company) on Being Authentic, Career Hang Times, and Readiness
“I take great pride in the fact that as a profane clergyman in the theater—I think of the theater as a profane church, a place of worship—we honor the human condition, with all of its warts.” ~ James Newcomb Today’s guest started in the theatre at a very young age, felt adrift and wasn’t exactly […]
The Rehearsal Room FULL Workshop Presentation: Shakespeare’s Hamlet (Scene 2.2) featuring Kwana Martinez, with Gigi Bermingham directing
From our May 2021 workshop, it’s the final session of Act 2, Scene 2, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In this scene, Hamlet’s friends from school, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, have just arrived and the King and Queen ask them to find out what’s going on with Hamlet. A short while later, Hamlet enter reading and is greeted […]
Text Work: Hamlet’s “Advice to the Players” with Randall Duk Kim and Annie Occhiogrosso
The following is the text work session taken from the full episode with Randall and Annie. In this episode, Randall and Annie share insights into working on Shakespeare through the appropriately chosen piece, Hamlet’s “Advice to the Players”—the one that begins “Speak the speech I pray you”. You’ll hear Randall and Annie discuss: Some of the […]
Text Work: Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead with Geoffrey Wade
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 […]