Video recommended by Katie Keddell, sourced from the blog, actingshakespeare.wordpress.com.
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Speak the Speech Part II
Here is a video of renowned Shakespeare teacher Patsy Rodenburg discussing three circles of energy actors use onstage. Find out why the second circle is where you want to be.
This video comes to us via our text coach, Katie Keddell. Thanks, Katie!
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Speak the Speech, I Pray You
Our text coach, Katie Keddell, stopped by rehearsal yesterday to give some help in the "speaking Shakespeare" department. Everyone did great!
To help you work on speaking the text of AYLI, actors, I recommend perusing Katie's cheat sheet (provided yesterday) first. If you want more (and aren't keen on taking your acting advice from Hamlet), check out the scan I made from the book The Actor's Guide to Performing Shakespeare, by Madd Harold.
a., The author's name is Madd Harold, which is awesome, but more importantly, b., he gives great, down-to-earth advice about working with Shakespeare's text. This book is one of my favorites from my undergraduate years– I found it by accident in the library and it was always super-useful to me for auditions and for performance class. I have a copy of it if you want to read more– contact me!
Otherwise, find the scan here.
Also remember to use the annotated copies of the play I've been bringing to the rehearsal room, as well as the lexicons (or myself or Katie) as resources!
Enjoy!
Your dramaturg,
Jess
To help you work on speaking the text of AYLI, actors, I recommend perusing Katie's cheat sheet (provided yesterday) first. If you want more (and aren't keen on taking your acting advice from Hamlet), check out the scan I made from the book The Actor's Guide to Performing Shakespeare, by Madd Harold.
a., The author's name is Madd Harold, which is awesome, but more importantly, b., he gives great, down-to-earth advice about working with Shakespeare's text. This book is one of my favorites from my undergraduate years– I found it by accident in the library and it was always super-useful to me for auditions and for performance class. I have a copy of it if you want to read more– contact me!
Otherwise, find the scan here.
Also remember to use the annotated copies of the play I've been bringing to the rehearsal room, as well as the lexicons (or myself or Katie) as resources!
Enjoy!
Your dramaturg,
Jess
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
"Cross-Dressing, Drag, and Passing: Slippages in Shakespearean Comedy"
To read this essay by Jennifer Drouin in its entirety, click here!
For quick notes, keep on reading...
Summary: Published in Shakespeare Re-Dressed, Jennifer Drouin’s essay evaluates how and why some of Shakespeare’s characters dress as the opposite sex. Are these characters only “cross-dressing,” or are they doing something more significant?
For quick notes, keep on reading...
Summary: Published in Shakespeare Re-Dressed, Jennifer Drouin’s essay evaluates how and why some of Shakespeare’s characters dress as the opposite sex. Are these characters only “cross-dressing,” or are they doing something more significant?
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Cross-dresser versus transgendered versus drag queen...
There is a difference between these three labels! Drag is usually donned for entertainment purposes or theatricality. There are both drag queens, and drag kings. Drag is usually thought of as a sort of performance art, popular in the queer community. (This is mostly the idea we're going for in our production of AYLI.)
A cross-dresser tends to be someone who simply prefers to dress as the opposite sex on a regular, daily basis. Cross-dressers aren't performers, and often identify as heterosexuals (see Eddie Izzard clip below). They do not actually desire to become the opposite sex; their cross-gendered behavior is an outward or external identity, not an internalized one.
A transgendered or transsexual person, sometimes referred to in psychology as someone with gender dysphoria, feels that he or she should have been born as the opposite sex. Transgendered people will often try to live a normal life as the opposite sex, and some undergo sex-change surgery in order to actually become the gender opposite the one they were born as. The film TransAmerica with Felicity Hoffman is about a male-to-female transgendered person.
For a quick, simple article on the subject, see this link from e-How. For more info on gender, see links in the actor packet, via the sidebar to your right!
A cross-dresser tends to be someone who simply prefers to dress as the opposite sex on a regular, daily basis. Cross-dressers aren't performers, and often identify as heterosexuals (see Eddie Izzard clip below). They do not actually desire to become the opposite sex; their cross-gendered behavior is an outward or external identity, not an internalized one.
A transgendered or transsexual person, sometimes referred to in psychology as someone with gender dysphoria, feels that he or she should have been born as the opposite sex. Transgendered people will often try to live a normal life as the opposite sex, and some undergo sex-change surgery in order to actually become the gender opposite the one they were born as. The film TransAmerica with Felicity Hoffman is about a male-to-female transgendered person.
For a quick, simple article on the subject, see this link from e-How. For more info on gender, see links in the actor packet, via the sidebar to your right!
Eddie Izzard on Transvestism
Probably one of the most famous cross-dressers, Eddie Izzard is a British stand-up comedian. This is a clip from his show, Dress to Kill. YouTube it!
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