Playing with Shakespeare
A course for those who are preparing for drama school, those who want to buff up their Shakespeare, or just want to know more.

Dates: Monday 3rd – Wednesday 5th August 2009 from 9.30am – 6.30pm.

Cost: £175 per person

This course is designed to be accessible for the beginner who is keen to know more and for those who want to go further with their work on classical texts. If you want to explore your favourite scenes/characters, and make new discoveries, and new insights with familiar texts, this is the place to workshop and get playful with what you already know, and exchange the “hard work”, for “hard play”, and have fun.

What will I be doing?
You will be studying verse speaking technique, with a variety of texts exemplifying different periods in Shakespeare’s development, as well as texts by his contemporaries. You will look at a variety of techniques on how to explore texts and open up their meaning. The choice of the scenes will reflect prose as well as verse, comedy and tragedy, early, middle and late Shakespeare. You will also look at the “set pieces” of the canon – soliloquies, and major speeches which can be used for audition purposes.

When?

Monday 3rd – Wednesday 5th August 2009 from 9.30am – 6.30pm.

Where?

ALRA, The Royal Victorian Patriotic Building, John Archer Way, London, SW18 3SX 

Cost?

£175 per person

How do I apply?

For more information please contact us on 0208 647 5870 or email at enquiries@alra.co.uk