"Director: Tom Todoroff"

• Working Shakespeare: Workshop | DVD | (09/08/2010) from £65.33   |  Saving you £4.66 (6.70%)   |  RRP £69.99

  In this first workshop, Cicely Berry introduces us to the fundamentals of meter and rhythm in Shakespeare. The group discovers how that underlying beat, the iambic pentameter, responds to the different thoughts of a character. Students explore the lengths of vowels and consonants to feel the muscularity of the language. Working first on the Prologue to Romeo and Juliet, the group learns to beat out the meter. The rhythm is fairly regular, yet the need to tell a story makes us dwell on certai...

• Working Shakespeare: Workshop | DVD | (09/08/2010) from £65.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (5.70%)   |  RRP £69.99

  The Voice Preparation Workshop offers direct, experienced, and artistically stimulating guidance for students of all ages who wish to explore their vocal potential through the principles articulated in the Working Shakespeare series. In the first part of Andrew Wade's workshop, students are gently eased into the thinking behind each step of what will later form their own routine of exercises. We are taken through a personal journey of discovery through practical observation of the group's pr...

• Working Shakespeare: Workshop | DVD | (09/08/2010) from £65.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (5.70%)   |  RRP £69.99

  This workshop examines the prose texts in one classic play, Henry V, and in one modern play, Edward Bond's Lear as well as texts from Julius Caesar, Richard III, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Macbeth. Cicely Berry opens up the process of integrating the meaning of the text with the motive and intention of the characters. Blythe Danner works on the Hostess in Henry V and delivers the moving speech that describes the death of Falstaff. Robert Sean Leonard is Lysander to Claire Danes' Hermia ...

• Working Shakespeare: Workshop | DVD | (09/08/2010) from £113.38   |  Saving you £-43.39 (-62.00%)   |  RRP £69.99

  This workshop is a compilation of all the voice work the group practiced throughout the workshops. It is a rare experience to see how professional actors productively prepare their voices during rehearsals and before performances. It is also an unforgettable reminder of the physical nature of language. Exercises on the muscularity of consonants and on the openness of the vowels, connecting with relaxation in order to root the voice and give it range and resonance, how to find strength withou...

• Working Shakespeare: Workshop | DVD | (09/08/2010) from £53.29   |  Saving you £16.70 (23.90%)   |  RRP £69.99

  The group explores how the very choice of language and imagery takes us into the world of the play, and into the inner world of the character. Cicely Berry introduces us to the opening scenes of two of Shakespeare's most powerful plays: A Midsummer Night's Dream and Hamlet. Students work on the first three speeches of The Dream, where they uncover the hidden passion and sexuality in Shakespeare's language that set the mind's stage for the extraordinary romance of that midsummer night. In Ham...