This five-week workshop has been designed to introduce actors to Ms. McClintock and her methodology based on the British RSC approach to text. We create a shared vocabulary and bond to attack the work from a common point of view. The five weeks cover a progression of work that includes:

• Hamlet Act I - acting at the Globe, Shakespeare speaking beyond the grave
• Hamlet's 5th Soliloquy - everything you will ever need to know about Iambic Pentameter
• The Sonnets - the best one-minute Shakespeare monologues
• Status Exercises from Max Stafford Clark
• The 5 Question Technique of Earle Gister
• Patsy Rodenburg's voice, breath and text work
• Video comparison of Shakespeare productions

This class is generally a prerequisite for the Shakespeare Level 2 and Level 3 courses and has been taken by actors of all levels and ages. The idea is to create a common ground which will enable us to move more quickly and successfully into advanced work.

The class meets for five weeks. Each session is approximately 3 hours long. Minimum class size: 4.

Shakespeare 2:
Sonnets, Soliloquies and Scene Study

Where modern and contemporary playwrights demand that an actor work between the lines, Shakespeare requires a technical proficiency with language. It is in the text that Shakespeare gives us everything we need. This course will give actors the tools to clarify character choices, setting of time and place, scenic demands, and how to "speak the speech". We will analyze such concepts as operative words, scansion for proper pronunciation, conjunctions, comparisons, alliteration, and items in a series. This course is designed to give you a basic foundation in the British approach to text and combine it with the vibrant, forceful American acting style. Each student works every week and will be assigned both scenes and monologues.

Shakespeare 3:
Advanced Performance Technique
Playing with Passion (Rehearsal Into Performance)

For the professional actor or someone with a strong foundation in technique and language skills. This class will be conducted like a rep company in rehearsal for several rotating Shakespearean productions. Rehearsal/classes will use scene analysis and text work to help you fine-tune the skills you already possess. The course's aim is to give you such confidence in your technical proficiency, that you will be able to combine your intellectual and emotional work and fly freely into performance. Exact choice of plays and casting to be determined by student makeup. Rehearsals will be conducted following the tenets of repertory as practiced by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Admission by audition. (Prerequisite:  Shakespeare 1 or the equivalent.)