Summer Workshops

HAMLET WORKSHOPS

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SCHEDULE: Wednesday, June 26, 2019, 8:00—10:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Harman Center for the Arts, 610 F Street NW
TUITION: $30
REQUIREMENTS: Adults, ages 18 and older only
Tuition is non-refundable

Uncover techniques to live inside the mind of Shakespeare’s characters. Under the tutelage of Broadway veteran Madeleine Potter, currently playing Gertrude in STC’s Hamlet, learn new approaches to mining the richness of Shakespearean verse in his speeches and soliloquies.

Madeleine Potter*
Gertrude

NEW YORK: Broadway: An Ideal Husband (Gertrude, Lady Chiltern, dir. Peter Hall), The Master Builder (Hilde Wangel), A Little Hotel On The Side (Victoire), The Crucible (Abigail), Metamorphosis (Greta, dir. Stephen Berkoff), Coastal Disturbances (Holly), Slab Boys (Lucille), Plenty (Dorcas, dir. David Hare). Off-Broadway: Pygmalion (Eliza Doolittle), Abingdon Square (Marion, dir. Irene Fornes), Richard III (Lady Anne, NYTF), The Playboy of the Western World (Pegeen), Same Old Moon (Brenda), Philadelphia, Here I Come (Katie), Sea Marks (Timothea), Lydie Breeze (Gussie, dir. Louis Malle), Dead, a Love Story (Ruth Snyder, dir. Herbert Berghof), The Silver Fox (Joanna, dir. Herbert Berghof). REGIONAL: Ford’s Theatre: The Glass Menagerie (Amanda); Portland Playhouse: Hedda Gabler (Hedda Gabler); Williamstown Theatre: As You Like It (Rosalind). INTERNATIONAL: U.K.: Royal Court Theatre: The Kid Stays in the Picture (dir. Simon McBurney), 4:48 Psychosis (dir: James MacDonald); Edinburgh Festival: Tejas Verdes (one woman play); After Mrs. Rochester (Ella); Electra (Clytemnestra); All My Sons (Anne, dir. Howard Davies); Southwark Fair (Toni, dir. Nicholas Hytner); The Water’s Edge (Helen); The Internationalist (Irene); Madame Melville (Ruth); The Maidens Prayer (Cynthia); Shoot; Get Treasure; Repeat (Woman); Mother of Him (Brenda); An Ideal Husband(Lady Chiltern); The Plough and the Stars (Nora). FILM: The White Countess, The Golden Bowl, Slaves of New York, The Bostonians, Chosyu Five, Red Lights, Refuge, Muffin (short), Bloodhounds of Broadway, Two Evil Eyes, The Suicide Club, Hello Again. TELEVISION: Mr. Selfridge, Foyles War, Houdini, Holby City, Midsomer Murders, Dark Matters, Caught in the Act, The Girl in the Cafe, State of Play, The Whistleblower, Crime Story, The Equalizer, Svengali. AWARDS: Silver Peacock for Best Actress with Vanessa Redgrave (The Bostonians). TEACHING: British American Drama Academy (London, Oxford), Rose Bruford, Manchester School of Theatre, FSU study abroad program London.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

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SCHEDULE: Thursday, June 27, 2019, 8:00—10:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Harman Center for the Arts, 610 F Street NW
TUITION: $30
REQUIREMENTS: Adults, ages 18 and older only
Tuition is non-refundable.

Experience an introduction on Shakespeare’s world through improvisation and play. Have fun improvising lost masterpieces and testing your ability to make stuff up under the guidance of Alan Cox, currently playing Claudius in STC’s Hamlet, and a company member of the School of Night, an improvisation group inspired by an underground sect of artists who some scholars believe wrote Shakespeare’s plays. Find out more at www.theschoolofnight.com

Alan Cox*
Claudius

NEW YORK: Broadway: Manhattan Theatre Club: Translations. Off-Broadway: Lincoln Center Festival: Opening Skinner’s Box; Culture Project: The Seagull; 59E59: City Stories, Playing With Grown Ups, Cornelius; BAM: The Caretaker. REGIONAL: Huntington Theatre Company: Betrayal; Cincinnati Playhouse: Behind the Eye; U.S. Tour: Frost/Nixon; Goodman Theatre: Passion Play. INTERNATIONAL: U.K.: Hampstead: Uncle Vanya; Chichester Festival Theatre: Forty Years On; Hampstead: Longing; Barbican: The Tempest; Chester: Much Ado About Nothing; Lyric Belfast: John Bull’s Other Island; Jermyn Street: Barefoot in the Park; Theatre Royal Haymarket: The Importance of Being Earnest; Salisbury: Duchess of Malfi; Birmingham Rep: Three Sisters; National Theatre: Wild Oats, Absolute Hell, Enemy of the People, The Seagull; Royal Shakespeare Company; Ken Campbell’s School of Night and The Wrestling School with Howard Barker. FILM: The Dictator, Contagion, August, Mrs. Dalloway, Young Sherlock Holmes. TELEVISION: The Good Wife, Lucan, John Adams, Margaret, Housewife 49.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

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