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    Acting Shakespeare

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    Acting Shakespeare: The Dangerous World of Julius Caesar

    An exciting, varied and practical acting course, exploring Shakespeare’s famous drama of political assassination, demagoguery and Civil War.

    A fragile democracy appears to be under threat from a military strongman.

    Brutus is a close ally of Julius Caesar but is persuaded that the only means of stopping his rise to power is assassination. Chaos, death squads and Civil War follow, and the Ghost of Caesar appears to his assassin on the eve of the decisive Battle of Phillippi.

    Actor and director Richard Spaul, fresh from his own remarkable solo performance of Hamlet, leads the course and will be working on many approaches to Shakespeare in general and Julius Caesar in particular, exploring Voice, Character, Ensemble Performance and Physical Theatre.

    At the end of the course, participants will be invited to take part in the final leg of the project – Julius Caesar: The Performance. This involves creating a performance inspired by Julius Caesar and incorporating material from the play, putting into practice many of the techniques and approaches learnt during the course.

    This will be created and performed in the atmospheric site of the Cambridge Leper Chapel and will take place in July, 2019.

    Winter Term:January 21 – March 18, 2019 (no class on February 18 – half-term)
    Venue: St. Andrews Hall, Chesterton, Cambridge CB4 1DH
    Time: 8:00pm – 10:00pm

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    in situ: has done a lot of Shakespeare over the past 16 years in different environments. We began with The Macbeth Project – a terrifying production of Macbeth taking place in a private house and since then have done productions of King Lear in an iron-age fort and The Winter’s Tale and Twelfth Night in a medieval church. Most recently, we have done a spine-tingling production of Hamlet with influences as divergent as Japanese Butoh dance and 20th Century spy fiction.

    We will be looking at dialogues from several different plays, covering comedy and tragedy.

    We will also be working with solo texts chosen by the participants.

    The work will involve all sorts of different approaches and will include work on movement, voice and character.

    We will be stressing the importance of taking artistic risks, having fun, keeping an open mind and having an adventurous and collaborative attitude.

    Above all we would want to stress that Shakespeare can be explored and acted by everybody, regardless of background or previous experience. We think anybody who engages with the work can perform effectively and can get a great deal of pleasure out of doing so. And we think we can prove it.

    Hope you can join us for this enjoyable and stimulating course.

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