Post by MsDirector on Aug 20, 2003 0:39:18 GMT -5
Hi All,
Haven't posted for quite a while... but then again, lately there hasn't been much posting by anyone, so I don't feel so bad
Had to report on the best trip ever for a Shakespeare fanatic. I just came back from a wonderful month in England immersing myself in Shakespeare! Spent a fabulous 3 weeks at the University of Cambridge Shakespeare Summer School. One class on Hamlet through the ages; one class on Playing Shakespeare Then and Now, which started with the Globe and how Shakespeare was played in his day, and then progressed through the centuries to the modern RSC productions. Lots of additional lectures by Shakespearean scholars, actors and experts in the field. Excursions to Stratford Upon Avon to see "The Taming of the Shrew" at RSC, and then to London to the Globe to see an all male, "original practices" production of "Richard II" with artistic director Mark Rylance as Richard!
Then I moved on to London for a week. My first day there I attended a master class on "Playing Shakespeare" by acclaimed voice coach Patsy Rodenburg with the help of the cast of The National Theatre's "Henry V". And then that night I saw them in performance. Amazing experience.
Then my husband flew in to meet me and, amidst lots of touring, we also saw an all female cast in an "original practices" production of "Richard III" at the Globe, with Kathryn Hunter as Richard and Amanda Harris as Buckingham. Fabulous! Then onward to "Merry Wives of Windsor" at the Old Vic.
And as if Shakespeare alone wasn't enough, we then saw Patrick Stewart in Ibsen's "The Master Builder" and Kenneth Branagh in Mamet's "Edmund"! Shakespearean actors, if not Shakespearean productions.
Home now and thoroughly exhilarated and exhausted. And so psyched up that I'd kill to be able to direct something Shakespeare! What a month! ;D
Haven't posted for quite a while... but then again, lately there hasn't been much posting by anyone, so I don't feel so bad
Had to report on the best trip ever for a Shakespeare fanatic. I just came back from a wonderful month in England immersing myself in Shakespeare! Spent a fabulous 3 weeks at the University of Cambridge Shakespeare Summer School. One class on Hamlet through the ages; one class on Playing Shakespeare Then and Now, which started with the Globe and how Shakespeare was played in his day, and then progressed through the centuries to the modern RSC productions. Lots of additional lectures by Shakespearean scholars, actors and experts in the field. Excursions to Stratford Upon Avon to see "The Taming of the Shrew" at RSC, and then to London to the Globe to see an all male, "original practices" production of "Richard II" with artistic director Mark Rylance as Richard!
Then I moved on to London for a week. My first day there I attended a master class on "Playing Shakespeare" by acclaimed voice coach Patsy Rodenburg with the help of the cast of The National Theatre's "Henry V". And then that night I saw them in performance. Amazing experience.
Then my husband flew in to meet me and, amidst lots of touring, we also saw an all female cast in an "original practices" production of "Richard III" at the Globe, with Kathryn Hunter as Richard and Amanda Harris as Buckingham. Fabulous! Then onward to "Merry Wives of Windsor" at the Old Vic.
And as if Shakespeare alone wasn't enough, we then saw Patrick Stewart in Ibsen's "The Master Builder" and Kenneth Branagh in Mamet's "Edmund"! Shakespearean actors, if not Shakespearean productions.
Home now and thoroughly exhilarated and exhausted. And so psyched up that I'd kill to be able to direct something Shakespeare! What a month! ;D