Preview: DVD #2 Working Shakespeare – UNDER THE TEXT: Subtext and the World of the Play
Posted on June 14th, 2010 by admin
The group explores how the very choice of language and imagery takes us into the world of the play, and into the inner world of the character. Cicely Berry introduces us to the opening scenes of two of Shakespeare’s most powerful plays— A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Hamlet.
Students work on the first three speeches of The Dream where they uncover the hidden passion and sexuality in Shakespeare’s language which set the mind’s stage for the extraordinary romance of that midsummer night. In Hamlet, the spareness of the language and the spaces within it open our ears to the mystery central to Hamlet’s dilemma.
We learn how the vocabulary of each play takes us into its unique world. In the darkened rehearsal studio, the opening scene of Hamlet is whispered with stunning impact by Robert Sean Leonard, Toby Stephens, Lennie James and Paul Jesson
Duration : 0:4:52
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June 14th, 2010 at 12:41 am
Cecily, thank you …
Cecily, thank you for your gifts.