is a proven technique developed from the Shakespeare Today and Teaching Shakespeare Through Performance workshops conducted by Louis Fantasia for the Shakespeare Globe Centre since 1981. The results, which have been tested and proven in workshops and productions around the world, are designed to provide immediate and practical guides and insights to Shakespeare's structured, verse, language and characters. Workshops can be organized to meet the needs of students, teachers, theatre professionals or the general public.
Workshops are in two parts, Pre-Performance and Performance, and begin with simple exercises in text analysis and verse speaking; then quickly progress to character interpretation and the problems of style through work on sonnets, scenes and monologues.
knowing what the words really mean;
knowing where the play is going;
knowing the sense and rhythm of the line;
knowing what the play is about;
transitions from reading to performance;
acting as a study of the breath;
and an analysis of presence in performance.
| Time frame | Participants | Fee | |
Half-day: |
3 hr. min |
24 max |
US$500.00 |
Full-day: |
5 hr. min |
30 max |
US$800.00 |
| (or two half sessions on the same day) | |||
Weekend: |
2 day min |
40 max |
US$1,500.00 |
Week-long |
residencies begin @ US$2,500. | ||
| (i.e. five day) | |||
| Travel, housing and per diem
expenses are NOT included in the fees. |
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| Louis is a popular lecturer and after-dinner speaker. He has lectured to audiences in England, France, Japan, New Zealand, Australia and across the U.S. His current | |||
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| begin at US $500.00. plus travel, housing and per diem. |
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