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A SERIES OF MASTER CLASSES WITH THE GREATEST SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS OF THEIR AGE
SIT IN ON NINE INTENSIVE ACTING WORKSHOPS conducted by the legendary John Barton of the Royal Shakespeare Company. How does this world-renowned troupe make classic plays accessible to modern audiences, without compromising the text’s integrity? How do actors search Shakespeare’s verse for hidden clues to their characters’ motivations? How do they balance intellect and passion to make theatre’s most famous soliloquies seem fresh?
The answers come from Barton and 21 of Britain’s finest actors, including Judi Dench (“Shakespeare in Love,” “Iris”), Ben Kingsley (“Gandhi,” “Schindler’s List”), Peggy Ashcroft (“A Passage to India”), Ian McKellen (“The Lord in the Rings,” “Gods & Monsters”), Patrick Stewart (“X-Men,” “Star Trek: The Next Generation”), and David Suchet (“Agatha Christie’s Poirot).
Also starring Sinéad Cusack up the irish! 🙂 , Susan Fleetwood, Sheila Hancock, Alan Howard, Donald Sinden, Michael Williams, and more.
1. THE TWO TRADITIONS
Shakespeare wrote for a performance style that differs in many respects from modern, “naturalistic” acting. Barton urges the actors to marry both traditions for the richest, most faithful characterizations.
with MIKE GWILYM, SHEILA HANCOCK, LISA HARROW, ALAN HOWARD, BEN KINGSLEY, IAN McKELLEN, and DAVID SUCHET
2. USING THE VERSE
By varying the stress contained in a line and using other poetic techniques, Shakespeare planted subtle clues for the actors playing a scene.
with SINÉAD CUSACK, SHEILA HANCOCK, LISA HARROW, ALAN HOWARD, JANE LAPOTAIRE, IAN McKELLEN, PATRICK STEWART, DAVID SUCHET, and MICHAEL WILLIAMS
3. LANGUAGE & CHARACTER
Barton and the company search for antitheses in the verse to reveal complexity of character, working to make dialogue seem fresh and spontaneous.
with SINÉAD CUSACK, LISA HARROW, BEN KINGSLEY, MICHAEL PENNINGTON, ROGER REES, PATRICK STEWART, DAVID SUCHET, and MICHAEL WILLIAMS
4. EXPLORING A CHARACTER
Patrick Stewart and David Suchet demonstrate their individual approaches to one of Shakespeare’s most fascinating characters — Shylock in “The Merchant of Venice.”
with PATRICK STEWART and DAVID SUCHET
5. SET SPEECHES & SOLILOQUIES
Understanding the underlying poetic structure of long speeches and soliloquies helps the actor engage the audience in the character’s thought process.
with TONY CHURCH, SINÉAD CUSACK, JUDI DENCH, SUSAN FLEETWOOD, LISA HARROW, ALAN HOWARD, JANE LAPOTAIRE, BARBARA LEIGH-HUNT, RICHARD PASCO, MICHAEL PENNINGTON, DONALD SINDEN, PATRICK STEWART, and DAVOD SUCHET
6. IRONY & AMBIGUITY
How do actors identify ironic dialogue? How do they use it to reveal character? And how do they communicate it to the audience?
with TONY CHURCH, MIKE GWILYM, ALAN HOWARD, BEN KINGSLEY, JANE LAPOTAIRE, RICHARD PASCO, MICHAEL PENNINGTON, and NORMAN RODWAY
7. PASSION & COOLNESS
In many instances, Shakespeare expressed overflowing emotion and profound thought in the very same speech. How do actors balance the heart and the intellect?
with TONY CHURCH, SUSAN FLEETWOOD, MIKE GWILYM, SHEILA HANCOCK, LISA HARROW, BEN KINGSLEY, BARBARA LEIGH-HUNT, MICHAEL PENNINGTON, DONALD SINDEN, and PATRICK STEWART
8. REHEARSING THE TEXT
Without stage blocking, Barton and four actors explore Shakespeare’s verse as they would in rehearsal, using a scene from “Twelfth Night.”
with JUDI DENCH, RICHARD PASCO, NORMAN RODWAY, and MICHAEL WILLIAMS
9. POETRY & HIDDEN POETRY
Barton examines three ways in which performance falls short of hopes, and members of the company reflect on changing styles of Shakespearean performance.
with PEGGY ASHCROFT, LISA HARROW, ALAN HOWARD, BEN KINGSLEY, IAN McKELLEN, DONALD SINDEN, and DAVID SUCHET
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX8Ax9RoC5kx4p42ss7X6vtCoRJgOEkXh
Written and Presented by JOHN BARTON
Directed by JOHN CARLAW
Produced by ANDREW SNELL
Executive Producers MELVYN BRAGG ( of present day in our time on BBC Radio 4! 🙂 ) and NICK EVANS
Casting JANE DAVIES
Music GUY WOOLFENDEN
Videotape Editor GRAHAM ROBERTS
Patrick Stewart and David Suchet demonstrate their individual approaches to one of Shakespeare’s most fascinating characters — Shylock in “The Merchant of Venice.”
with PATRICK STEWART and DAVID SUCHET. DAVID SUCHET plays a very good Shylock in frock coat stick and Kippah. Sir PATRICK STEWART uses just the Kippah but He is spot on crucial subjects about the character: language, appearance, personality. “Suchet out acts Stewart to the point that you can see Stewart getting flustered” (Arun Pillai comment on youtube)
Written and Presented by JOHN BARTON
the sort of Kippah used by PATRICK STEWART and DAVID SUCHET in the workshop
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Posted: August 27, 2013 in Uncategorized
Tags: Art, DAVID SUCHET, literature, Merchant of Venice, PATRICK STEWART, Shakespeare, Shylock, William Shakespeare
Call for Papers/ Gairm scoile Symposium: Patrick Pearse and theatre / Pádraig Mac Piarais agus an Amharclann
Posted: August 27, 2013 in UncategorizedTags: AbbeyTheatre, Dublin City University, Irish, Irish nationalism, Irish theatre, Patrick Pearse, Theatre
27 Pearse Street (formerly Great Brunswick Street), Dublin, the birthplace of Patrick and William Pearse, who were executed for their role in the Easter Rising of 1916. The facade was restored in the 1990s. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Promotional photo from archives of the Abbey Theatre (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
AbbeyPosterOpeningNight (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Kathleen Ni Houlihan Abbey Theatre, 1916 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Pearse Street Library (Photo credit: Dublin City Public Libraries)
Call for Papers/ Gairm scoile
Symposium: Patrick Pearse and theatre / Pádraig Mac Piarais agus an Amharclann
St Patrick’s College, Dublin City University, 29-30th November 2013
In the years before he became an icon of rebellion Patrick Pearse was obsessed with the theatre. He was the author and producer of plays in both Irish and English and the imaginative force behind pageants that were staged on a truly remarkable scale. Contemporary performances of Pearse’s works attracted large and enthusiastic audiences, while many leading figures from the worlds of culture and politics were involved in the preparation, promotion, and staging of his ambitious scripts. The plays themselves were often allegories for Pearse’s political vision and he drew on the theatrical expertise of his brother Willie and their circle to devise innovative productions that included open air performances as well as stagings in the Abbey and the Irish Theatre.
This symposium seeks to explore this sometimes overlooked dimension to Pearse’s life and work. Papers are invited that discuss Pearse’s plays and his theatrical practice, as well as the wider impact and context (local, national, international) of his engagement with theatre and performance. Papers (20mins) may be presented in English or in Irish (a simultaneous translation service will be provided).
Possible topics could include, but are not limited to:
• Critiques of individual plays
• Pearse as proto-modernist
• Pearse’s dramatisations of classic Irish texts
• Pearse as a theatre critic and theorist
• Pearse’s innovative performance praxis
• Pearse’s engagement with fellow dramatists: e.g. Yeats, Nic Shiubhlaigh, Hyde, O’Grady and Synge.
• Pearse’s interest in European dramatists such as Ibsen and Maeterlinck.
• Pearse and the postcolonial
• The music and song of Pearse’s plays
• Pearse’s involvement with The Theatre of Ireland, the Abbey Theatre and the Irish Theatre.
• The network of key figures in the organisation and staging of Pearse’s plays (MacDonagh, Hobson, Larkin, Willie Pearse, Yeats etc.)
• The role of theatre in the development of Irish nationalism
• Pearse and folk theatre
• Critical reactions and production histories
Please submit a title and 200 word abstract of your proposed paper by Friday 27th September to pearsetheatre@spd.dcu.ie Registration: 25 euro (payable at the symposium)
Organisers: Dr Eugene McNulty is a member of the English Department, St Patrick’s College, DCU
Dr Róisín Ní Ghairbhí is a member of Roinn na Gaeilge, St. Patrick’s College, DCU. 018842304
Thanks to Brian Ó Conchubhair for letting me know
Dublin City University (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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ACIS/CAIS 2014, Call for Papers
Posted: August 27, 2013 in UncategorizedTags: Dublin, Education, Ireland, Irish, UCD, United States, University College Dublin
The 2014 meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies and the Canadian Association of Irish Studies will be held at University College Dublin on 11-14 June 2014
The Conference theme is: Latitudes: Irish Studies in an international context. Banbha i gcéin
The 2014 joint ACIS/CAIS conference at UCD is an opportunity for scholars from both sides of the Atlantic with a common interest in Ireland’s history, heritage, culture and society to meet and establish new intellectual networks. The conference theme invites papers that set out to examine where Ireland fits into wider cultural, socio-economic and historical patterns.
Is Ireland unique – and if so, in what way?
Can Ireland be seen as pioneering cultural/historical trends, or as a laggard?
Some contributions may be explicitly comparative, but others may simply suggest similarities with or differences from other literary or historical movements.
We welcome papers on all aspects of Irish studies – history, social sciences, literature, language, culture, and the creative and performing arts. Individual papers and panel submissions are welcome. No contributor should take part in more than two panels. Fáilte roimh pháipéir in nGaeilge. We also wish to encourage presentations in non-traditional formats – posters, exhibits and performances.
Proposals for individual papers should be 250-300 words in length plus a brief 50 word bio.
Panel proposals should give a single statement – 500 words maximum – setting out the rationale for this panel, and identifying the contributions of each speaker, with a brief 50 word bio for each.
We promise a lively programme of papers, receptions, readings, film screenings and small-group workshops in Dublin’s libraries and archives which will showcase new print, manuscript and audio-visual collections.
The deadline for submissions is Monday 11 November. Please email proposals and any queries to aciscais@ucd.ie
The ACIS/CAIS 2014 Conference Committee:are Arts & Celtic Studies
Humanities Institute Ireland faculty:
Mary E. Daly,(mary.e.daly@ucd.ie) Marc Caball,(marc.caball@ucd.ie) Máire NÍ Annracháin,(maire.niannrachain@ucd.ie Anthony Roche (anthony.roche@ucd.ie)
information is also available at:http://www.acisweb.com
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Friday the 30th of September at 6.30pm for the launch ofAmit Mediratta‘s Exile and Other Poems, his thirteenth collection of writing. The collection will be launched by poet Michael Faherty, and will gather together work previously published at his exhibition openings in limited quantity, and will be the first definitive edition of his early poetry – beautifully presented on vellum paper and hand-signed in silver ink. The title will be produced by Amit Mediratta Publications, the imprint established by the artist last year. Check out the Galway Advertiser review, in this week’s issue, or here!
Exile Songs and other Poems opens with a series of writings originally addressed to a deceased friend and mentor as part of a number of correspondences following the latter’s death. They comprise nostalgic reflections on the poet’s adolescence, and a subsequent transition to adulthood that engages with a probing, experimental search for value and purpose. Written in a style that is simultaneously romantic, satirical and grotesque, Mediratta’s writings dissolve the moral constraints of language to produce works that document an autobiographical account of a wanderer through existence. The result is a timeless collection that echoes – and furthers – the preoccupations of writers such as Swift, Blake, Nietzsche and Hesse.
Born in Sligo in 1983 and of Indian origin, Mediratta has contributed to the arts in Galway through a prolific output of exhibitions and published collections. At present, he researches and teaches with the Philosophy Department at NUI Galway.
Exile Songs and other Poems will be launched at 6pm on Friday, August 30th, and will be available for purchase at Charlie Byrne’s and via all major online book retailers. The invited speaker will be poet Michael Faherty. For more information, see www.amit-mediratta.com.
Everyone is welcome to attend!
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Triggering our age of high-stakes secrecy, explosive news leaks and the trafficking of classified information, WikiLeaks forever changed the game. Now, in a dramatic thriller based on real events, THE FIFTH ESTATE reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century’s most fiercely debated organization. The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful. On a shoestring, they create a platform that allows whistleblowers to anonymously leak covert data, shining a light on the dark recesses of government secrets and corporate crimes. Soon, they are breaking more hard news than the world’s most legendary media organizations combined. But when Assange and Berg gain access to the biggest trove of confidential intelligence documents in U.S. history, they battle each other and a defining question of our time: what are the costs of keeping secrets in a free society—and what are the costs of exposing them?”
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Pixar’s ‘Brave’: Inside look at movie’s characters — EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS
Posted: August 16, 2013 in UncategorizedCarl: I believe I made my position to your boss quite clear. Construction Worker: You poured prune juice into his gas tank. Carl: Yeah that was good. Here, let me talk to him. (talks into megaphone) You in the suit! Yes you! Take a bath, hippie! Construction Worker: (grabs megaphone) I am not with him! (talks to Carl) This is serious! He’s out to get your house! Carl: Tell your boss he can have our house! Construction Worker: Really? Carl: When I’m dead!” —Carl and a Construction Worker
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