Shakespeare Intensive
Recurring | Available (Membership Required)
In this class, students will be introduced to the basics of bringing Shakespeare’s language to life. They will be given a comprehensive introduction to working with iambic pentameter, to identifying and clarifying meaning, to rhetoric, and to utilize all of the above to create dynamic and compelling performances in both on soliloquies and and scenes.
About Will Block:
Will Block is an actor, director, producer, and teacher based in Los Angeles, CA. As an actor, his work has taken him up and down the CA coast, with his most recent credits including Hamlet in Hamlet (ETC Santa Barbara), Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest, Tom in The Glass Menagerie (Santa Cruz Shakespeare), Posthumus Leonatus in Cymbeline and Feste in Twelfth Night (Kingsmen Shakespeare Co). Up next: Curly in Of Mice and Men and Fred/Young Scrooge in A Christmas Carol with Sierra Repertory Theatre in Sonora and Richard Dreyfuss in The Shark is Broken with ETC Santa Barbara. He currently serves as the Artistic Director of the Porters of Hellsgate Theatre Company in Los Angeles, CA.
NO CLASS MONDAY, OCTOBER 6TH