Word: shakespeareans
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...A.R.T.’s artistic director, Jim True-Frost of “The Wire,” and Anatoly Smeliansky, the Dean of the Moscow Art Theatre School, among others. The classes explore various elements of the acting experience, including voice and speech training, character work, Shakespearean scenes, theater history, and even a class on yoga for actors. A seminar involving the business side of acting is also included, touching on topics such as agents and casting directors, the differences between working in New York and Los Angeles, and the pros and cons of MFA programs...
...very bizarre musical, and I liked the idea of a show that functions on many levels,” says Walter B. Klyce ’10, who plays Bat Boy. “On the one hand, it’s almost Shakespearean in scope, with a misshapen tragic hero, a dysfunctional family, a lot of blood and guts, and general disorder in the Great Chain of Being. But at the same time, it’s very funny and self-referential, often poking fun at itself or interrupting serious moments with bits of irreverent humor...
...analysis—a summary of the narrative thread or a pinpointing of the poem’s speaker, for instance—are as important as emotionally subjective reactions. Both are more difficult (the former to produce, the latter to explain) in contemporary poetry than, say, in a Shakespearean sonnet. This isn’t to say that Shakespeare isn’t complex, or less complex than contemporary lyric poems. It is that the difficulties of poetry have spread from the depth of the emotion expressed into the poem’s literal coherence and project...
Historically, Shakespearean plays have only included male cast members, so HSC is truly breaking with tradition by giving “drag” a new meaning...
...lack of female roles in Shakespearean plays inspired Meryl H. Federman ’11, president of the HSC and the director of “Richard II”, to propose an all-female cast. “Richard II is very poetic,” says Federman. “The language is soaring and beautiful and...it fits with an all-female voice...