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EducationStudent WorkshopsShakes 101Two actor/teachers come to your classroom to "Shake" it up! Students get Shakespeare in their mouths and in their bones. In Richmond Shakespeare's signature fast-paced and interactive style, workshop leaders draw on Elizabethan history, culture, and performance techniques to jump start students' enthusiasm for Shakespeare and to emphasize the ways in which his plays were originally meant to be seen and heard rather than read.Size Limit: 30 Length: 60 minutes (a 90-minute version can also be created) Cost without show: $150/hour Cost with show: $100/hour Age range: Grades 5-12, and older The Play's the ThingAlso fast paced and "on your feet," this workshop prepares students for an investigation of a particular play or a performance of a play. The two actor/teachers focus on Shakespeare's use of words and sounds and familiarize students with the plot (and subplots) and the characters.Size Limit: 30 Length: 60 minutes Cost without show: $150/hour Cost with show: $100/hour Age range: Grades 5-12, and older Words, Words, WordsHow do actors take the words from the page to the stage? In this workshop, students become players as they investigate the text by getting up on their feet and reading selected scenes. Two actor/teachers help them investigate the clues in the text that Shakespeare used to guide his players. (He had to--there was virtually no time for rehearsal!) These clues help us understand character and emotion in a way that gives students a greater awareness of the characters' motives. Students also compare Elizabethan staging techniques to modern ones. This class is especially appropriate for drama classes, but it's also fun and useful for non-actors.Size limit: 20 Length: 90 minutes Cost without show: $115/hour Cost with show: $90/hour Age range: 9-12 and older All the World's a StageIn this class, students teach the teachers. Actor/teachers perform a scene from Shakespeare and students give suggestions for staging. Professional actors lend their expertise on the choices that they have or would make in a scene, demonstrating that theater, particularly Shakespearean theater, is a living, breathing medium and not merely words on a page. Students develop communication skills, experience the artistic process first hand, and learn to cooperate with others. (Note: only scenes from the current Richmond Shakespeare production will be used.)Class size: 50 Length: 60 minutes Cost without show: $175/hour Cost with show: $150/hour Conflict ResolutionThis workshop is created to allow students to explore the issue of intolerance and violence through an "on-your-feet" artistic experience. As they perform (or "play") scenes from Romeo and Juliet, students dissect the language, examine the dramatic situation as it unfolds, and contemplate the ways in which different actions might result in different outcomes. Students learn conflict-resolution skills throughout the process.Size limit: 30 Length: 90 minutes Cost without show: $150/hour Cost with show: $100/hour Boy Meets Girl Meet WillCombine three scenes that dramatize interactions between boys and girls (or men and women) with a classroom full real boys and girls, and let the fun begin!Grades 6-8: A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, and Romeo and Juliet Grades 9-12: Macbeth, Twelfth Night, and The Taming of the Shrew Size limit: 30 Length: 60 minutes Cost without show: $150/hour Cost with show: $100/hour For more information contact Cynde Liffick, Director of Education, at 804-232-4000 or . |
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