Academy Classes
Jan
22
ACADEMY 2025: THE DIVE IN, A Midsummer Night's Dream
How well do you really know this play? Through deep textual analysis, set against knowledge of Shakespeare’s times and what his audience would have understood, we will dig and dive and grapple, aiming at a better understanding of Shakespeare’s meaning. In the long established Antaean...
Feb
1
Masterclass: Getting to Know Twelfth Night
Harold Bloom wrote: “I have to admit that Twelfth Night is surely the greatest of all Shakespeare’s pure comedies.”With that in mind we will read the play together, taking parts as we choose. We will explore how the text is working, noting rhetorical devices, changes from...
Feb
18
ACADEMY 2025: STAGE COMBAT
One of the tools any well-rounded actor should have in their back pocket is the ability to perform stage violence. Nothing worse than seeing a good Hamlet through 5 Acts, only to have him be laughable in the climactic fight scene. Having the basic knowledge and vocabulary of combat means that you...