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In 1982 Royal Shakespeare Company director John Barton led a series of televised master classes with RSC actors Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Judi Dench, and Ben Kingsley, among other memorable names. These programs are an invaluable and enjoyable way to develop your sense of acting Shakespeare.

The World’s A Stage Players is excited to host a series of five workshops that will take the programs as a starting point and work with the scenes, speeches, and sonnets used in them. Open to participants and observers alike, the workshops will tackle:

• using both verse and prose;
• finding character through language;
• exploring speeches and soliloquies; and
• utilizing irony, passion, and coolness.

The workshops will not be instructor-led, but gently facilitated to create an opportunity for collaboration and peer learning amongst a group of interested community theater actors and Shakespeare fans.

To sign up for our next session, click on the Learn More and Register button below; you'll receive the viewing/reading prompts for each session via email.

All nine episodes of the Playing Shakespeare series are available on YouTube (via this playlist) and are also transcribed in the volume Playing Shakespeare: An Actor’s Guide (available at the library and on Amazon).

Our next session:

• April 16, 2023: Set Speeches & Soliloquies Learn More and Register