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Text Work: Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale with Richard Riehle

Published October 22, 2019 | Last Updated November 4, 2021 Leave your thoughts »

The following is the text work session taken from the full episode with Richard. In this excerpt, Richard discusses one of Leontes’ speeches in The Winter’s Tale by Shakespeare—it’s in the first act where he has his suspicions about his wife and his best friend having an affair. Leontes is speaking with his trusted advisor Camillo, […]



Filed Under: Podcast, Text Work Tagged With: classical, film, jealousy, leontes, madness, oregon, shakespeare, text work, theatre, tv, winter's tale

Richard Riehle on Rooster Cogburn and Casino [Members Only AUDIO]

Published October 20, 2019 | Last Updated October 20, 2019 Leave your thoughts »

And we have even MORE with our guest Richard, from ep 21! Hear his experience of being on a film set with John Wayne and Katherine Hepburn, along with working on a Martin Scorsese film with Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci! Listen to the bonus episode right now: Members bonus with Richard Riehle Total […]



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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 […]



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

explicit language So don't be surprised!

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 […]



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Ep #16: Ray Porter (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 300+ Audiobooks) on Delivering the Mail, Being Your Advocate, and Good-Natured Arrogance

explicit language So don't be surprised!

Published January 8, 2019 | Last Updated December 30, 2020 Leave your thoughts »

The biggest downfall of actors is when they start to get very pleased with themselves because they’re actors; having something else that will keep you a bit humble is a good thing. — Ray Porter   On the show today is Ray Porter, an actor who spent 18 seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival playing all sorts […]



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