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Week 1 Session – Shakespeare’s “Richard II” – the king deposed (Act 4, Sc 1) – The Rehearsal Room [Video, Audio, and Transcript versions]

explicit language So don't be surprised!

Published December 10, 2024 | Last Updated December 29, 2024 Leave your thoughts »

🏁 In our first week, highlights include:

Exploring the intimacy and public display in Richard II’s deposition scene

The power of language and its ability to shift the room’s energy

Understanding the relationship dynamics between Richard and Bolingbroke

Insights into historical context and its influence on performance



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Final Session – Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” – Hermione’s arrest and defense at trial – The Rehearsal Room [Video, Audio, and Transcript versions]

explicit language So don't be surprised!

Published December 3, 2024 | Last Updated December 10, 2024 Leave your thoughts »

🏁 In our final week, highlights include:

The power of acting to explore forbidden emotions and thoughts

Using a word’s actual meaning vs. personal interpretations

Italian run-through rehearsals – the purpose and expectations

A Q&A with the artists!



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Week 3 – Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” – Hermione’s arrest and defense at trial – The Rehearsal Room [Video, Audio, and Transcript versions]

explicit language So don't be surprised!

Published November 26, 2024 | Last Updated December 3, 2024 Leave your thoughts »

🏁 In our third week, highlights include:

Geoffrey’s exercise to help actors connect

Exploring the psychological aspects of jealousy

Transitions from personal to royal plural pronouns



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Week 2 – Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” – Hermione’s arrest and defense at trial – The Rehearsal Room [Video, Audio, and Transcript versions]

explicit language So don't be surprised!

Published November 19, 2024 | Last Updated December 3, 2024 Leave your thoughts »

🏁 In our second week, highlights include:

Deciding on the beats of the scene – what each is “called”

Bringing Leontes back to sanity vs. punishing him

Exploring the meaning of “I’ll keep her in the stables”



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Week 1 – Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” – Hermione’s arrest and defense at trial – The Rehearsal Room [Video, Audio, and Transcript versions]

explicit language So don't be surprised!

Published November 12, 2024 | Last Updated November 20, 2024 Leave your thoughts »

🏁 In our first week, highlights include:

the play as a tragic comedy and its significance in Shakespeare’s career

Leontes sudden and irrational jealousy towards his wife, Hermione.

the importance of pacing and punctuation in the text.



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Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” in The Rehearsal Room for November 2024 with Christopher Guilmet, Shannon Lee Clair, director Geoffrey Wade and more!

Published November 7, 2024 | Last Updated January 7, 2025 Leave your thoughts »

For November in The Rehearsal Room, we’re pulling an archive session and sharing it publicly on all platforms! November’s Workshop Our group will be working on Act 2, Scene 1 and Act 3, Scene 2 from Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale: Scenes from the Folger Shakespeare Library here and here. The Winter’s Tale Team – bios below: REPLAYS (both video and audio) […]



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Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” in The Rehearsal Room for September 2023 with Geoffrey Wade, Christopher Guilmet, Shannon Lee Clair, and more!

Published September 5, 2023 | Last Updated January 7, 2025 Leave your thoughts »

We had a fantastic time with Measure for Measure last month and now onto Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale! Our group will be working on Act 2, Scene 1 – where Leontes has Hermione arrested for adultery and treason. Scene from the Folger Shakespeare Library here. The Winter’s Tale Team: Get access to watch the REPLAYS […]



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The Rehearsal Room is BACK with The Winter’s Tale workshop for April 2023 with Liz Swain, Marcelo Tubert, and more!

Published March 29, 2023 | Last Updated May 3, 2023 Leave your thoughts »

What was clear to me during 2020-2022 was how much FUN the workshops scenes were to produce and how much it seemed others enjoyed them too! I was also consistently blown away at the quality of the work in such a short period of time. So I’m bringing the Rehearsal Room workshops back, starting in […]



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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, […]



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