Masterclass: Getting to Know Twelfth Night
Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center
This class is currently FULL. To join the waitlist, please email academy@antaeus.org.
$125 for Two-Day Masterclass
This Academy Class is open to everyone—from theater enthusiasts and newcomers to seasoned actors looking to deepen their understanding of Twelfth Night, our next production at Antaeus.
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 prose to verse, plot development, character contrasts and so on, all with the intention of looking at how the comedy is working. Armed with this textual understanding of the play, we will be ready for maximum enjoyment of The Antaeus production.
There will be only two meetings of this group, so if possible, read a bit of the play first. If you are new to Shakespeare, I recommend getting Shakespeare Alive by Joseph Papp and Elizabeth Kirkland, a terrific condensation of Shakespeare’s world and his writing.
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Elizabeth Swain is an actor, director and teacher, and a member of Antaeus. Directing includes The Winter's Tale (Antaeus); Hamlet (Antaeus); Measure for Measure (co-directed with Armin Shimerman (Antaeus); Romeo and Juliet and Two Noble Kinsmen (Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival); An Evening of Betrayal (The 6th Act); 3 Hamlets; 2 Macbeths; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Malcontent (Antaeus); The Rover and The Lucky Chance; and several new plays, most recently The Gatekeepers by Dan Perry. She directed a zoom production of The Comedy of Errors for the Classical Theatre Lab, for whom she has directed many staged readings, including Tartuffe, Richard I & II. For Antaeus she has directed six ClassicsFest readings.