Tickets & Events
Jan
15
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
9
Twelfth Night
“What country, friends, is this?”Separated from her twin brother in a shipwreck, Viola is forced to make her own way in the kingdom of Illyria — where, disguised as a man, she discovers unrequited passion,...
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...
Apr
27
The Glass Menagerie
“For nowadays the world is lit by lightning!”Tennessee Williams' indelible portrait of the dysfunctional Wingfield family. Fading southern belle Amanda, and her two grown children — aspiring poet Tom and desperately shy Laura — pin their hopes on the long-awaited appearance...