Bedlam
New York, NY
US

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Scene Study with BEDLAM's Eric Tucker!

Class 1 2:00-5:00 and Class 2 6:00-9:00

April 28, May 5, May 12, May 18, May 26, June 9

$375

West End Theatre 263 W 8th St NY, NY 10024

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ERIC TUCKER Artistic Director, Bedlam. Wall Street Journal BEST CLASSICAL DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR 2021; DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR 2014. Off Broadway: Arcadia, Fall River Fishing; Hedda Gabler; The Winter’s Tale; Persuasion; The Crucible; Uncle Romeo Vanya Juliet; Pygmalion; Peter Pan; Vanity Fair; Bedlam’s Sense and Sensibility (Off Broadway Alliance Award, Lortel nom, Best Director, Drama League nom, Best Revival, 4 Helen Hayes awards including Best Director and Best Production); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Drama League nom Best Revival, WSJ Best Classical Production 2015); Bedlam’s Saint Joan (NY Times/Time Magazine top 10; Off Broadway Alliance Best Revival 2014); Bedlam’s Hamlet (NY Times top 10); Tina Packer’s Women of Will; New York Animals (World Premiere by Steven Sater/Burt Bacharach), Twelfth Night and What You Will (NYT Critic’s Picks); The Seagull (WSJ Best Classical Production 2014). Other: Caesar and Cleopatra (ASC); The Rivals (BRT); The Merry Wives of Windsor (Two River), Disney’s Beauty & The Beast (OSF); Pericles (APT, WSJ Best Classical Production 2017); Copenhagen (Central Square Theatre), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (HVSF), Mate (The Actors’ Gang).

Speaking and Seeing Shakespeare with Mike Labbadia

Thursday, May 9 7-10pm

Thursday, May 16 7pm-10pm

Thursday, May 23 7pm-10pm

Thursday, May 30 7pm-10pm

Thursday, June 6 7:30pm-10:30pm

$300

West End Theatre 263 W 8th St NY, NY 10024

Email [email protected] with headshot and resume

About Speaking and Seeing Shakespeare

Most Shakespeare performances are dead. While his plays are still timeless and relevant to the human experience, centuries of rigid interpretations and expectations of his work and characters, along with dense dramaturgy, have regrettably silenced many unique voices from breathing new life into his works.

In this 5-week acting intensive, we're flipping the script and infusing Shakespeare’s work with vitality. Led by actor and Bedlam company member Mike Labbadia, we're breaking free from the shackles of tradition and embracing the wild, irreverent spirit of the Bard himself all while using the delightful and rhythmic structure of his language as a tool to liberate us, not confine us.

Throughout this intensive, you'll discover how to craft your own distinct perspective on Shakespeare’s works, savor the joy of speaking his language without feeling constrained, and most importantly, release yourself from the pressure of getting everything "right." Instead, we’ll focus on embracing the present moment, listening intently, and embracing the spontaneity inherent in Shakespeare's writing.

CURRICULUM

SESSION 1: Speaking

In this session we’ll aim to get past the dogma and rigid 'rules' surrounding Shakespearean text delivery, and instead explore some guiding principles that may prove more useful and freeing. We will be working with monologues chosen by the actors at the top of the session.

SESSION 2: Seeing

In this session, we will focus on developing our own unique POV around the material we are working on as well as approaching Shakespearean text analysis in a way that relieves us of the burden of performance and instead allows us to live more organically in the moment. Actors can work on the monologue they chose from the previous session or bring in a new one.

SESSION 3: Scene Work: Table Work

In this session we will take scenes assigned after Session 2 and work through them at the table. The emphasis of table work is to clearly cultivate our unique POV on the text and characters and subsequently begin to channel that into clearly seeing what our characters are seeing moment to moment.

SESSION 4: Scene Work: On Our Feet

After practicing with your partner outside of our time together, this will be your first time on your feet performing your scene for the rest of the group. In it we will continue to finesse the balancing act of seeing and being spontaneous in the moment while riding the wave that is Shakespeare’s language.

SESSION 5: Scene Work: On Our Feet / Flow

Our final day together, we will present our scenes for the final time after examining the state of flow and how we can create the circumstances in our work processes to experience it. There will be an emphasis in this session on getting out of our own ways, trusting the work that we have already done and letting the unique moment to moment spontaneity that exists outside of ourselves play on our instruments and bodies.

Mike Labbadia is a New York based actor. Off-Broadway: Arcadia, Winter’s Tale, Hedda Gabler (Bedlam), Strictly Dishonorable (Attic Theater Company). Regional Theater: Saint Joan (Gulfshore Playhouse, Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Hamlet (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), The 39 Steps (Gulfshore Playhouse), Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare on the Water), Higher (Gulfshore Playhouse), Saturday Sunday Monday (Virginia Rep). As a producer and filmmaker his work has been screened on Short of the Week and at festivals like Bushwick Film Festival, Women in Horror, Oaxaca Film Festival and Picture Farm Film Festival, Big Apple Film Festival and Miami Web Fest. BFA, UNCSA.

DURATION

Apr 28, 2024 - Jun 9, 2024

SALARY

$0.00 – $0.00 per hour

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