Led by the Royal Shakespeare Firm’s John Barton, the sequence options 9 grasp courses on Shakespearean efficiency with 21 of Britain’s best
John Barton – Playing Shakespeare
Led by the Royal Shakespeare Firm’s John Barton, the sequence options 9 grasp courses on Shakespearean efficiency with 21 of Britain’s best actors, together with Oscarr winners Judi Dench (Shakespeare in Love, Iris), Ben Kingsley (Gandhi, Schindler’s Listing), and Peggy Ashcroft (A Passage to India), Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings, Gods and Monsters), Patrick Stewart (X-Males), and David Suchet (Agatha Christie’s Poirot). The enlightening sequence aired on PBS within the mid-Nineteen Eighties and its companion ebook stays a preferred appearing information to at the present time. Bonus options embody a 20-web page viewer’s information and unique extras that take the tutorial expertise past the display screen.
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The Royal Shakespeare Firm founder John Barton holds a grasp class that includes…
JUDI DENCH
IAN MCKELLEN
PATRICK STEWART
BEN KINGSLEY
DAVID SUCHET
Sit in on 9 intensive appearing workshops carried out by the legendary John Barton of the Royal Shakespeare Firm. How does this world-famend troupe make traditional performs accessible to fashionable audiences, with out compromising the textual content’s integrity? How do actors search Shakespeare’s verse for hidden clues to their characters’ motivations? How do they steadiness mind and fervour to make theatre’s most well-known soliloquies appear contemporary?
The solutions come from Barton and 21 of Britain’s best actors, together with Oscar® winners Judi Dench (Shakespeare in Love, Iris), Ben Kingsley (Gandhi, Schindler’s Listing), and Peggy Ashcroft (A Passage to India), Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings, Gods and Monsters), Patrick Stewart (X-Males, Star Trek: The Subsequent Technology), and David Suchet (Agatha Christie’s Poirot).
Additionally starring Sinéad Cusack, Susan Fleetwood, Sheila Hancock, Alan Howard, Donald Sinden, Michael Williams, and extra.
(SDH subtitles)
BONUS FEATURES
20-web page viewer’s information consists of key factors, dialogue questions, avenues for additional studying, a historical past of the RSC, and “Vocabulary of Verse and Stage.”
Actor biographies and RSC stage credit
Unique net extras
Cofounder of the Royal Shakespeare Firm, John Barton directed productions there for over 40 years. In 2001, he acquired the Sam Wanamaker Award from Shakespeare’s Globe for his pioneering contributions to Shakespearean efficiency.
View an Excerpt from the Information Included with Playing Shakespeare
