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  • Week 2 - The Winter's Tale - Hermione's arrest/defense - The Rehearsal Room
    2024/11/19

    🏁 In our second week, highlights include:

    • Deciding on the beats of the scene - what each is "called"
    • Bringing Leontes back to sanity vs. punishing him
    • Exploring the meaning of "I'll keep her in the stables"

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    🙏 THANK YOU to our patrons at the Co-Star level and higher: Ivar, Joan, Michele, Jim, Magdalen, Claudia, Clif and Jeff!

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    🎭 CREATIVE TEAM - we have artists in LA, San Diego, Philly, and New York!

    • DIRECTOR: Geoffrey Wade
    • DRAMATURG: Gideon Rappaport
    • LEONTES: Christopher Guilmet
    • HERMIONE: Shannone Lee Clair
    • ANTIGONUS: J. Paul Nicholas

    More about this group: https://workingactorsjourney.com/workshop/november-2024-winters-tale-hermione-arrest-defense

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    😮 THE SCENE

    Our group will be working on Act 2, Scene 1 and Act 3, Scene 2 from Shakespeare’s The Winter's Tale:

    • Leontes has Hermione arrested for adultery and treason

    • Hermione tries to defend herself in open court

    Scenes from the Folger Shakespeare Library here and here.

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    📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
    One of our dramaturgs, Dr. Gideon Rappaport, has written three books on Shakespeare:

    • Appreciating Shakespeare: https://amzn.to/3XjY6Pe
    • Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline: https://amzn.to/3KEzyZK
    • William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated: https://amzn.to/3xdt012

    #workingactor #rehearsal #measureformeasure #shakespeare #shakespeare #textwork

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    Get your copy of "Keys the Pro's Use to Unlock Any Script" - plus two other free guides of acting and career advice!

    See additional content on Instagram and YouTube.

    ---

    The WAJ podcast is designed to show you HOW the work is done, WHAT the realities of the working actor life are like, and to share all the different ways actors have come to this career. There is no one path and no single answer. We want to learn from all of those further down the road, to shorten the learning curve and to discover what helps and what doesn’t when it comes to having a lifelong career as an actor.

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  • Week 1 - The Winter's Tale - Hermione's arrest/defense - The Rehearsal Room
    2024/11/12

    🏁 In our first week, highlights include:

    • the play as a tragic comedy and its significance in Shakespeare's career

    • Leontes sudden and irrational jealousy towards his wife, Hermione.

    • the importance of pacing and punctuation in the text.

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    🛑 SUBSCRIBE to get notified of our next rehearsal session! And click that BELL notification to never miss an update! 🔔

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    Get early access to sessions (before they go public on YouTube and the podcast), priority with asking questions, and more!

    🙏 THANK YOU to our patrons at the Co-Star level and higher: Ivar, Joan, Michele, Jim, Magdalen, Claudia, Clif and Jeff!

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    🎭 CREATIVE TEAM - we have artists in LA, San Diego, Philly, and New York!

    • DIRECTOR: Geoffrey Wade
    • DRAMATURG: Gideon Rappaport
    • LEONTES: Christopher Guilmet
    • HERMIONE: Shannone Lee Clair
    • ANTIGONUS: J. Paul Nicholas

    More about this group: https://workingactorsjourney.com/workshop/winterstale-hermione-arrest-defense-week-1

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    😮 THE SCENE

    Our group will be working on Act 2, Scene 1 and Act 3, Scene 2 from Shakespeare’s The Winter's Tale:

    • Leontes has Hermione arrested for adultery and treason

    • Hermione tries to defend herself in open court

    Scenes from the Folger Shakespeare Library here and here.

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    📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
    One of our dramaturgs, Dr. Gideon Rappaport, has written three books on Shakespeare:

    • Appreciating Shakespeare: https://amzn.to/3XjY6Pe
    • Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline: https://amzn.to/3KEzyZK
    • William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated: https://amzn.to/3xdt012

    #workingactor #rehearsal #measureformeasure #shakespeare #shakespeare #textwork

    ---

    Get your copy of "Keys the Pro's Use to Unlock Any Script" - plus two other free guides of acting and career advice!

    See additional content on Instagram and YouTube.

    ---

    The WAJ podcast is designed to show you HOW the work is done, WHAT the realities of the working actor life are like, and to share all the different ways actors have come to this career. There is no one path and no single answer. We want to learn from all of those further down the road, to shorten the learning curve and to discover what helps and what doesn’t when it comes to having a lifelong career as an actor.

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  • Final Session - Macbeth - 2 scenes - The Rehearsal Room
    2024/11/05
    🏁 In our fourth and final week, highlights include: The warrior character of Macbeth and comedic moments with Lady MacbethDiving into the imagery of "spongy officers"Analyzing the power dynamics in relationshipsA Q&A with the artists! ----- 🛑 SUBSCRIBE to get notified of our next rehearsal session! And click that BELL notification to never miss an update! 🔔 🤗 BECOME A PATRON of The Rehearsal Room on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wajpodcast Get early access to sessions (before they go public on YouTube and the podcast), priority with asking questions, and more! 🙏 THANK YOU to our patrons at the Co-Star level and higher: Ivar, Jaelyn, Joan, Michele, Jim, Magdalen, Claudia, Clif and Jeff! ----- 🎭 CREATIVE TEAM DIRECTOR: Nick CagleDRAMATURG: Gideon RappaportMACBETH: Mark LawsonLADY MACBETH: Meaghan Boeing More about this group: https://workingactorsjourney.com/workshop/october-2024-macbeth-2-scenes/ ----- 😮 THE SCENE Our group will be working on Act 1, Scene 7 and Act 2, Scene 2 from Shakespeare’s Macbeth. We’ll explore the relationship of MACBETH and LADY MACBETH: Macbeth questioning Duncan’s murder and Lady Macbeth creating a planMacbeth returning from Duncan’s murder, horrified by what he’s done Scenes from the Folger Shakespeare Library here and here. ----- 📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: One of our dramaturgs, Dr. Gideon Rappaport, has written three books on Shakespeare: Appreciating Shakespeare: https://amzn.to/3XjY6PeShakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline: https://amzn.to/3KEzyZKWilliam Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated: https://amzn.to/3xdt012 #workingactor #rehearsal #measureformeasure #shakespeare #shakespeare #textwork --- Get your copy of "Keys the Pro's Use to Unlock Any Script" - plus two other free guides of acting and career advice! See additional content on Instagram and YouTube. --- The WAJ podcast is designed to show you HOW the work is done, WHAT the realities of the working actor life are like, and to share all the different ways actors have come to this career. There is no one path and no single answer. We want to learn from all of those further down the road, to shorten the learning curve and to discover what helps and what doesn’t when it comes to having a lifelong career as an actor.
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  • Week 3 - Macbeth - 2 scenes - The Rehearsal Room
    2024/10/29

    🏁 In our third week, highlights include:

    • The use of hypotheticals and future tenses
    • What "the poor cat in the adage" really means
    • The staccato delivery in Lady Macbeth's lines

    Plus - could "Macbeth" become a Christmas play?? 🎄🤶

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    🛑 SUBSCRIBE to get notified of our next rehearsal session! And click that BELL notification to never miss an update! 🔔

    🤗 BECOME A PATRON of The Rehearsal Room on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wajpodcast

    Get early access to sessions (before they go public on YouTube and the podcast), priority with asking questions, and more!

    🙏 THANK YOU to our patrons at the Co-Star level and higher: Ivar, Jaelyn, Joan, Michele, Jim, Magdalen, Claudia, Clif and Jeff!

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    🎭 CREATIVE TEAM

    • DIRECTOR: Nick Cagle
    • DRAMATURG: Gideon Rappaport
    • MACBETH: Mark Lawson
    • LADY MACBETH: Meaghan Boeing

    More about this group: https://workingactorsjourney.com/workshop/october-2024-macbeth-2-scenes/

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    😮 THE SCENE

    Our group will be working on Act 1, Scene 7 and Act 2, Scene 2 from Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

    We’ll explore the relationship of MACBETH and LADY MACBETH:

    • Macbeth questioning Duncan’s murder and Lady Macbeth creating a plan
    • Macbeth returning from Duncan’s murder, horrified by what he’s done

    Scenes from the Folger Shakespeare Library here and here.

    -----

    📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
    One of our dramaturgs, Dr. Gideon Rappaport, has written three books on Shakespeare:

    • Appreciating Shakespeare: https://amzn.to/3XjY6Pe
    • Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline: https://amzn.to/3KEzyZK
    • William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated: https://amzn.to/3xdt012

    #workingactor #rehearsal #measureformeasure #shakespeare #shakespeare #textwork

    ---

    Get your copy of "Keys the Pro's Use to Unlock Any Script" - plus two other free guides of acting and career advice!

    See additional content on Instagram and YouTube.

    ---

    The WAJ podcast is designed to show you HOW the work is done, WHAT the realities of the working actor life are like, and to share all the different ways actors have come to this career. There is no one path and no single answer. We want to learn from all of those further down the road, to shorten the learning curve and to discover what helps and what doesn’t when it comes to having a lifelong career as an actor.

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  • Director Robert Goldsby from 2019
    2024/10/28

    From 2019, our interview with prolific director Robert Goldsby, on the aliveness of Molière, making clear transitions, and being blissfully happy. Bob took his final curtain call on October 27, 2024 at age 97. With a career spanning 60+ years, he accomplished so much and he'll be missed by all who knew him!

    Click here for full show notes and links.

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  • Week 2 - Macbeth - 2 scenes - The Rehearsal Room
    2024/10/22

    🏁 In our second week, highlights include:

    • Macbeth's soliloquy and chaotic dialogue
    • Lady Macbeth's role in the scenes
    • Macbeth's influence on Halloween and Harry Potter

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    🛑 SUBSCRIBE to get notified of our next rehearsal session! And click that BELL notification to never miss an update! 🔔

    🤗 BECOME A PATRON of The Rehearsal Room on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wajpodcast

    Get early access to sessions (before they go public on YouTube and the podcast), priority with asking questions, and more!

    🙏 THANK YOU to our patrons at the Co-Star level and higher: Ivar, Jaelyn, Joan, Michele, Jim, Magdalen, Claudia, Clif and Jeff!

    -----

    🎭 CREATIVE TEAM

    • DIRECTOR: Nick Cagle
    • DRAMATURG: Gideon Rappaport
    • MACBETH: Mark Lawson
    • LADY MACBETH: Meaghan Boeing

    More about this group: https://workingactorsjourney.com/workshop/october-2024-macbeth-2-scenes/

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    😮 THE SCENE

    Our group will be working on Act 1, Scene 7 and Act 2, Scene 2 from Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

    We’ll explore the relationship of MACBETH and LADY MACBETH:

    • Macbeth questioning Duncan’s murder and Lady Macbeth creating a plan
    • Macbeth returning from Duncan’s murder, horrified by what he’s done

    Scenes from the Folger Shakespeare Library here and here.

    -----

    📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
    One of our dramaturgs, Dr. Gideon Rappaport, has written three books on Shakespeare:

    • Appreciating Shakespeare: https://amzn.to/3XjY6Pe
    • Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline: https://amzn.to/3KEzyZK
    • William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated: https://amzn.to/3xdt012

    #workingactor #rehearsal #measureformeasure #shakespeare #shakespeare #textwork

    ---

    Get your copy of "Keys the Pro's Use to Unlock Any Script" - plus two other free guides of acting and career advice!

    See additional content on Instagram and YouTube.

    ---

    The WAJ podcast is designed to show you HOW the work is done, WHAT the realities of the working actor life are like, and to share all the different ways actors have come to this career. There is no one path and no single answer. We want to learn from all of those further down the road, to shorten the learning curve and to discover what helps and what doesn’t when it comes to having a lifelong career as an actor.

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  • Week 1 - Macbeth - 2 scenes - The Rehearsal Room
    2024/10/15

    🏁 In our first week, highlights include:

    • speech transitions and symbolism
    • exploring power, ambition, and moral sacrifice
    • Shakespearean nuances

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    🛑 SUBSCRIBE to get notified of our next rehearsal session! And click that BELL notification to never miss an update! 🔔

    🤗 BECOME A PATRON of The Rehearsal Room on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wajpodcast

    Get early access to sessions (before they go public on YouTube and the podcast), priority with asking questions, and more!

    🙏 THANK YOU to our patrons at the Co-Star level and higher: Ivar, Joan, Michele, Jim, Magdalen, Claudia, Clif and Jeff!

    Special welcome to Jaelyn as a new GUEST STAR member!

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    🎭 CREATIVE TEAM

    • DIRECTOR: Nick Cagle
    • DRAMATURG: Gideon Rappaport
    • MACBETH: Mark Lawson
    • LADY MACBETH: Meaghan Boeing

    More about this group: https://workingactorsjourney.com/workshop/october-2024-macbeth-2-scenes/

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    😮 THE SCENE

    Our group will be working on Act 1, Scene 7 and Act 2, Scene 2 from Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

    We’ll explore the relationship of MACBETH and LADY MACBETH:

    • Macbeth questioning Duncan’s murder and Lady Macbeth creating a plan
    • Macbeth returning from Duncan’s murder, horrified by what he’s done

    Scenes from the Folger Shakespeare Library here and here.

    -----

    📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
    One of our dramaturgs, Dr. Gideon Rappaport, has written three books on Shakespeare:

    • Appreciating Shakespeare: https://amzn.to/3XjY6Pe
    • Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline: https://amzn.to/3KEzyZK
    • William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated: https://amzn.to/3xdt012

    #workingactor #rehearsal #measureformeasure #shakespeare #shakespeare #textwork

    ---

    Get your copy of "Keys the Pro's Use to Unlock Any Script" - plus two other free guides of acting and career advice!

    See additional content on Instagram and YouTube.

    ---

    The WAJ podcast is designed to show you HOW the work is done, WHAT the realities of the working actor life are like, and to share all the different ways actors have come to this career. There is no one path and no single answer. We want to learn from all of those further down the road, to shorten the learning curve and to discover what helps and what doesn’t when it comes to having a lifelong career as an actor.

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  • Final Session - The Merry Wives of Windsor - 2 scenes - The Rehearsal Room
    2024/10/08
    🏁 In our fourth and final week, highlights include: The Great Vowel Shift and Shakespeare's pronunciation Exploring Mistress Ford's emotions and actions Q&A with the creative team ⭐️ And a special thank you to Juls Hoover for hosting this month! ⭐️ ----- 🛑 SUBSCRIBE to get notified of our next rehearsal session! And click that BELL notification to never miss an update! 🔔 🤗 BECOME A PATRON of The Rehearsal Room on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wajpodcast Get early access to sessions (before they go public on YouTube and the podcast), priority with asking questions, and more! 🙏 Thank you to our current patrons at the Co-Star level and higher: Joan, Michele, Jim, Magdalen, Ivar, Claudia, Clif and Jeff! ----- 🎭 CREATIVE TEAM DIRECTOR: J. Paul NicholasDRAMATURG: Gideon RappaportFALSTAFF: Todd ScofieldMRS. PAGE: Michele SchultzMRS. FORD: Corinna Christman More about this group: https://workingactorsjourney.com/work... ----- 😮 THE SCENE Our group will be working on two scenes where the wives plan revenge on Falstaff! Act 3, Scene 3 (Falstaff's first visit to Mrs. Ford), ending before Mr. Ford arrives Act 4, Scene 2 (Falstaff's second visit to Mrs. Ford), again ending before Mr. Ford arrives Scenes from the Folger Shakespeare Library here and here. ----- 📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: One of our dramaturgs, Dr. Gideon Rappaport, has written three books on Shakespeare: Appreciating Shakespeare: https://amzn.to/3XjY6PeShakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline: https://amzn.to/3KEzyZKWilliam Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated: https://amzn.to/3xdt012 #workingactor #rehearsal #measureformeasure #shakespeare #shakespeare #textwork --- Get your copy of "Keys the Pro's Use to Unlock Any Script" - plus two other free guides of acting and career advice! See additional content on Instagram and YouTube. --- The WAJ podcast is designed to show you HOW the work is done, WHAT the realities of the working actor life are like, and to share all the different ways actors have come to this career. There is no one path and no single answer. We want to learn from all of those further down the road, to shorten the learning curve and to discover what helps and what doesn’t when it comes to having a lifelong career as an actor.
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    1 時間 59 分