🏁 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
🏁 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!
🏁 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
🏁 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”
🏁 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.
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) […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
