Acting Shakespeare: Finding the Fun

This practical course will enable you to find the fun and freedom to play Shakespeare. Texts will be explored through contemporary contexts to release participants from the fear of approaching Shakespeare’s language. With one on Central’s expert tutors, you’ll be guided through a variety of contemporary acting techniques to facilitate ownership of the language.

This is an ideal course for those with some experience of acting but lack confidence or a toolkit to approach Shakespeare. 

Course Content
Discover how to bring heightened language to life in performance
Finding the fun within the text and playing the scene as a game
Consider how to contemporise Shakespeare
Explore Shakespeare’s characters, language and rhythms
Work with a scene partner on a Shakespearean duologue

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