Breathe Life Into the Words

The Breath and Embodying Shakespeare’s Text

Taught by Linklater designated instructor and Seattle Shakespeare Company Voice and Text Director, Kimberly White

 

The Shakespeare’s language demands that we access our full humanity in order to bring his characters and stories to life.  A responsive and free breath is essential to this process.  It is the key to creativity, emotion, imagination and impulse.

 

Based in the Linklater technique, this clinic for working actors focuses on the process of connecting the actor to his or her authentic voice through freeing the breath while speaking Shakespeare’s text.  Utilizing individual and group work, participants will learn techniques to develop a fully responsive voice and body for Shakespeare’s language.

 

Please be prepared with a piece of Shakespeare text that you are passionate about regardless of whether it is age or gender appropriate.  Wear loose clothing and layers.

 

Dates:  Mondays, Oct. 27, Nov. 3 & 10, 2008
Time:    6:30-9:30PM
Location:  To be announced
Cost:  Participants - $135

 

rhetoric

The Art of Persuasion

Taught by Julliard-trained instructor and actor Richard Ziman

 

The use of rhetoric in Shakespeare comes from the oral tradition of persuasion, a tradition not well-used in our modern times full of sound bytes. By revealing the underlying rhetorical structure to Shakespeare's text, the actor is led down the corridors of figures of speech, the powers of persuasion, and the passion and rhythm inherent in the language. As a tool, rhetoric is used to unlock the meanings of the speech in order to give the classical actor clarity and choices to use on stage.

 

This clinic will give working actors the tools to recognize and use rhetoric to infuse their work with passion and clarity.

 

Dates:  Mondays, March 16, 23, 30                
Time:    6:30-9:30PM
Location:  To be announced
Cost:  Participants - $135

 

Registration and Payment

Registration and pre-payment required. To register, please call Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Education Office at 206-733-8228 ext 212 or email the Education Department

 

About the instructors

• Kimberly White has been Text/Voice Director with SSC for the past four seasons. She has worked with Shakespeare's plays in many capacities over the past 25 years. Credits include Shakespeare & Company (Lenox, Mass.), Maryland, Lake Tahoe & Sun Valley Shakespeare Festivals, Harvard University, Univ. of WA., & University of BC. Kimberly is a Designated Linklater Voice Teacher.
• Richard Ziman is a Julliard-trained local artist who has appeared in production at Seattle Shakespeare Company, ACT Theatre, and Intiman. His Broadway appearances include Henry IV, Not About Nightingales (also world premiere at the Royal National Theater of Great Britain), Epic Proportions, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, and Lost in Yonkers. Off-Broadway:  New York Shakespeare Festival (Twelfth Night, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Julius Caesar, Kit Marlowe, and The Normal Heart ) Manhattan Theater Club (Polish Joke). His film credits include Clockers, Death to Smoochy, Private Parts, The Chosen, and Unholy.  His work as a director has been seen recently at 14/48, the Icicle Creek Theatre Festival in Leavenworth and Seattle, and Circus Theatricals in L.A.