American Globe Conservatory

An introduction to the first folio and cue script approach using methods that Shakespeare and his company applied to the text. This gusty, bawdy way to analyze Shakespeare's visceral language teaches the actor how to make the script work as a "blueprint." This is a rough-and-ready method - out-loud and on-your-feet - where the actor learns to make the language and character one. (Interview required.)

An advanced scene study class in which the actor will gain further mastery of their technique and expand their "vocabularies" as performing artists through their work on scenes from the great classic plays. Bridging the gap between technique and method is the emphasis. The purpose of the PLAYING SHAKESPEARE SERIES is to encourage the actor to become a whole artist. (Admission by audition only.)

A positive environment in which to explore, understand and improve technique and to practice being alone onstage with monologues, soliloquies and audition pieces. This workshop includes classical and contemporary work.

In this advanced class, incorporating skill from Speaking the Text, the actor will learn to uncover the character's physical life from the language. Suiting "the action to the word, the word to the action," the actors will stage scenes from the text and from the practical stagecraft of the time. Each actor will explore intensively three scenes and three characters.

"Every word in our language is a frozen metaphor, a frozen picture. It is the poetry behind words that gives language its overwhelming power, and the more intimately we know the romance that lies within each word, the better understanding we will have of its meaning."

30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary by Dr. Wilfred Funk & Norman Lewis
revised Pocket edition, April 1971

This workshop enables the actor to develop a profound understanding of action and character through careful consideration of the words. Based on the concept of rhetoric as well as Shakespearean and ancient Greek training techniques, it opens the actor to the richly diverse power and expression of words. The actor learns to experience the words as thoughts in action. Through this exciting technique, the actor develops the skills necessary to analyze any script for any occasion — rehearsal, performance or audition.

The Shakespeare Intensive meets three nights a week for three weeks and covers Speaking the Text, Monologue Workshop & Script Analysis (listed above). Speaking the Text meets on on Mondays, Monologue workshop on Tuesdays and Script Analysis on Wednesdays.

You must take the entire Intensive and not individual classes