The Working Shakespeare Collection: The Ultimate Actor’s Workshop
(From the Applause Books). How can we join Shakespeare’s heightened, lavish language while remaining true to our modern world? How do actors enthrall the audience with Shakespeare’s rich imagery and energetic rhythm while making it relevant to the twenty-first century? We presume that grappling with Shakespeare necessitates a strong intellectual foundation. But there is a far deeper, almost primordial response available to both inner-city and private school children to the tone and rhythm in Shakespeare’s language that arouses our emotions: sentiments of rage and grief, passion and laughter. This unprecedented five-part video series gives voice to Shakespeare’s most popular and widely recognized speeches and sonnets, delivered by a formidable ensemble of American and British actors as they dive into Shakespeare’s language’s structure, meaning, and force. Each DVD delves further into a different part of Shakespeare’s writing.
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