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The Rehearsal Room FULL Workshop Presentation: Shakespeare’s King Lear (Scenes 1.4 and 2.4) with Tony Amendola as Lear and Elizabeth Dennehy as Goneril

Published July 27, 2021 | Last Updated November 1, 2021 Leave your thoughts »

From our October 2020 workshop, it’s the final session of Act 1, scene 4 and Act 2, scene 4 from Shakespeare’s King Lear. We continue rolling out these episodes from the past 12+ months of workshops we’ve been doing. If you’ve missed any presentations thus far, click here to find them all. It was exciting […]

Filed Under: Podcast, Workshop Tagged With: england, geoffrey wade, king, king lear, lear, scene work, shakespeare, text work, tragedy, virtual, workshop, zoom

Q&A with Shakespeare dramaturg GIDEON RAPPAPORT

Published October 20, 2020 | Last Updated December 14, 2020 Leave your thoughts »

Today we have a great discussion with an often overlooked role in the theatre: the dramaturg! And if you’re wondering exactly what that person does, you’re in the right place! Gideon Rappaport joined us for our online readings in the Spring (Much Ado and Merry Wives), and has been part of the workshop series since […]

Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: cressida, director, dramaturg, king lear, lear, scene work, shakespeare, text work, tragedy, troilus, virtual, zoom

Text Work: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 with Tony Amendola

Published March 26, 2019 | Last Updated November 4, 2021 Leave your thoughts »

Tony Amendola Lear

The following is the text work session taken from the full episode with Tony. In this excerpt, Tony discusses Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare. As Tony shares, it’s almost like an “anti-love” sonnet, that it makes fun of sonnets that are too flowery, as it has a very different tone and style with its message. You’ll hear […]

Filed Under: Podcast, Text Work Tagged With: antaeus, berkeley, california, classical, connecticut, directing, film, iago, lear, mfa, oregon, san francisco, shakespeare, sonnet, text work, theatre, tv

Ep #18: Tony Amendola (Regional Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Stargate SG-1) on Stamping Your Own Passport and Following the Work

Published March 12, 2019 | Last Updated May 11, 2019 2 Comments - add more!

Tony Amendola as Shylock

Being an actor in Los Angeles can be—if you’re not careful—living off the interest of your talent and experience. And every so often, you need to make a deposit, and that can be doing theatre in LA, New York, in the regions, or it can be a self-generated project, but you do need to do […]

Filed Under: Episodes, Podcast Tagged With: antaeus, berkeley, california, classical, connecticut, directing, film, iago, lear, mfa, oregon, san francisco, shakespeare, sonnet, text work, theatre, tv

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