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In this course, you will :
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Perform a Shakespearean monologue with confidence and clarity
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Understand your strengths and weaknesses as a performer through individualised feedback on your performance
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Know how to approach a Shakespearean monologue or text, analyse it and understand it
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Learn how to warm up your body and voice to perform anywhere
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Bring clarity of thought and expression to your classical and contemporary acting
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Speak Shakespeare and be understood by your audiences
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Learn how to be focused and free from distraction on stage
Syllabus :
1. You
- Body Awareness
- Cultivate Body Awareness
- Introduction to Body Warm Up
- Body Warm-up
- Free Your Movements and Reactions
- Practisting letting your body be free
- Economy of Movement
- Introduction to Breath
- How the Breath Works - An Actor's Point of View
- Deep Breathing
- Tension is Breath's Enemy
- Rediscover your Breath
- Build your Breath Capacity
- Increasing your Breath Capacity
- Improve your Breath Control
- Flex your Diaphragm
- Flex and Control
- Introduction to Voice
- Warming up your Voice Gently
- Release the Vibrations
- Building your Resonance
- Exercise your Articulators
2. The Text
- Intro to the Play
- Uncover the Context
- Discover Your 'Character'
- Discover the Other Characters
- Intro to Your Monologue
- Feel the Rhythm
- Beat out the rhythm
- Using the Verse Structure
- Mark the punctuation
- Approaching the Vocabulary
- Understand the Vocabulary
- Find those Key Words
- Key Words
- Tips for Learning Your Words
3. You and the Text
- Intro to You and the Text
- You are the Difference
- Find Your Connection
- Clarity of Thought
- Expression of Thought
- How to Rehearse
- Opening Night
- Your Performance - revamped!
4. A Lifelong Practice
- Learn from Others
- Consume Everything
- Your Speedy Warm-up
