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Shakespeare to Shepard - Free Class!! Tuesday, December 14, 2010 For actors intrigued, nervous, or thrilled at working on Shakespeare’s characters, this workshop is a free sample class with Actress/Coach Sybil Lines. Her visceral approach makes it suitable for beginners as well as more seasoned professionals. “SHAKESPEARE TO SHEPARD,” a 6-week acting course, is planned to begin in March. 
“SHAKESPEARE TO SHEPARD”: is an acting workshop that explores the similarities
and differences, for an actor, when tackling Shakespeare’s works compared with
those of modern American playwrights. There will be scene study work on
modern writers (Mamet, Albee, Miller, etc.) and Shakespeare. Sybil encourages
the exploration of the primal needs that prompt a character to speak. She
prompts the detective work in analyzing the use of a specific word and what the
character is aiming to shift in the listener’s mind. The class uses exercises
that help the actor manifest not only psychological emotional intensity but also
the energy and appropriate physical power for classical text. Understanding the
requirements of heightened language and meter while avoiding presentational
performances (animated poetry readings, phony tonal qualities, sing-song
delivery or drowning in the rhythm) is the basis of her classical course,
“Shakespeare from the Loins.” These exercises will also be included in the
workshop. When writers choose to write a drama over a novel or poem, they
entrust the completion of their communication to an actor. It is up to you to
fulfill that trust with an approach that focuses on organic specificity,
modulation and new thought while honing technical skills that enable the full
expression of a passionate imagination.SYBIL LINES has appeared on BBC television and was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company performing with Dame Judi Dench, Roger Rees and Lisa Harrow. Broadway: Bedroom Farce with John Lithgow, Waiting in the Wings with Lauren Bacall and Rosemary Harris, Lettice & Lovage with Dame Maggie Smith and Aren't We All with Rex Harrison and Lynn Redgrave. Off-Broadway: Rockabye:Footfalls with Billie Whitelaw Other NY: Claw (MTC), The Philanderer (Roundabout), The Penultimate Problem of Sherlock Holmes (Hudson Guild), Crimes of Vautrin (SoHo Rep.), Counting Hours (La Mama), Homebody/Kabul (NY Theatre Workshop), School for Scandal (The Pearl) and Quatermaine's Terms (Playhouse 91). Sybil was Dr. Scott in the American Premiere of Whose Life is it, Anyway? with Judith Ivey; created the roles of Martha in The Hiding Place with Alfred Drake and Proby in The Team directed by Stephen Hollis; Ruth in Blithe Spirit with Christine Baranski and Anna Russell Shakespeare: Viola, Rosalind, Mistress Quickly, Mistress Ford, Juliet's Nurse, Titania, Lady Capulet, Maria, Portia, Alice, Marianne, Timandra, the Princess of France and Lady Macbeth over many seasons with Seattle's ACT, the Alabama and Orlando Shakespeare Festivals, the Folger Theatre in Washington D.C. and various British theatres. Other Classics include: Duchess of Malfi (Julia), Miser (Elise), Rivals (Julia), Three Sisters (Masha), and Varya in The Cherry Orchard (Helen Hayes' Nomination). Selected Regional: Stepping Out (Pasadena Playhouse and the Berkshire Festival); Breaking the Code (South Coast Rep.); Ashes (Cincinnati Playhouse dir. Emily Mann); Otherwise Engaged (the Goodman); Absurd Person Singular and Fallen Angels (the Alliance); Indiscretions (Dallas Theatre Center); Lettice & Lovage; Dancing at Lughnasa; Equus; Lost in Yonkers; Mrs. Poultney for Kate Saxon, Bel in Moonlight with director Joy Zinoman and Sofya Tolstoy in The Last Station with Jerome Kilty. Film & TV: the villainous Libby Webster in Edge of Night, Madge on Murder She Wrote with Richard Todd, Gloria on The Hogan Family and James Fox's wife in Mickey Blue Eyes. Teaching: London's Central School of Speech and Drama; The Circle in the Square in NYC; Theatre School Academy of the Spoken Word in Stuttgart Germany; Catholic University in Washington D.C.; Kolping School, Germany; the Drey Institute at Rollins College; University of South East Alaska; Actors' and Directors' Lab; ACTeen at Weist Barron and the Corner Loft Studio in Greenwich Village. Master Your Domain March 4, 2010; 6:00-7:30pm; Come hear web site professionals Shannon Brown, Jon Ecklund and Annie Chadwick in a panel discussion on the current trends in web site and reel design. Straight from her monthy Show Business Strategies column, Annie Chadwick leads this free workshop on how to "Master Your Domain." Domain name, that is. ". .as the internet has become more integrated into our lives, having a web presence is now a vital component in the actor's arsenal." It's no longer a luxury to have a web site with reels, it is now an absolute necessity. In this hour and a half workshop you will get tips on how you can create an effective web presence with the marketing materials you already have at whatever stage you are with your career. There is no need to wait until you "have enough footage." Also learn how you can create your own professional reel that shows your uniqueness and gives a taste of what you do best. Workshop topics will include:
Bonus - this workshop coincides with the Drama Book Shop's wine and cheese night. Come and enjoy and learn how to move your career to the next level. Annie Chadwick, www.AnnieChadwick.com Shannon Brown, www.Shannon-Brown.com Jon Ecklund, www.dreamoutloudmedia.com |
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