Speaking Shakespeare

Where are we?. The work

Communication

Preparing the equipment

Delivery. Presence : the three circles of energy

The body

Working your body

Breath

Support

Freeing the voice

Placing the voice

Speech

Form. The givens : serving the text. The word

Alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia

Rhythm

Pauses and irregularities of rhythm

The line

The thought and the structuring of thoughts

The structure of scenes

Antithesis

Rhyme

Prose

Irony

Puns

Language games

Repetition

The story

Location

Stage directions, props, entrances and exits

Soliloquy

Final thoughts on form and the givens

The imaginative. The imaginative exploration of the text

Anchoring the text

Owning the text from the character's experience

The speeches. Richard III, Act I Scene ii - Lady Anne

Julius Caesar, Act III Scene i - Antony

Measure for Measure, Act III Scene i - Claudio

King Lear, Act I Scene iii - Goneril

King Lear, Act II Scene iii - Edgar

As You Like It, Act III Scene v - Rosalind

Much Ado About Nothing, Act II Scene iii - Benedick

The Merchant of Venice, Act III Scene i - Shylock

Othello, Act II Scene I - Iago

Henry V, Act II Scene iii - The Hostess

The Winter's Tale, Act IV Scene iv - Autolycus

Macbeth, Act II Scene ii - Lady Macbeth and Macbeth

Twelfth Night, Act I Scene v - Viola, Olivia and Maria

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II Scene i - Oberon and Puck

Antony and Cleopatra, Act II Scene ii - Enobarbus and Agrippa

Coriolanus, Act I Scene iv - Coriolanus

Cymbeline, Act II Scene v - Posthumus

King John, Act III Scene iv - Constance, King Phillip and Pandulph

Working on a whole play. Not just Shakespeare

Last thoughts.