Two Shakespeare Class Opportunities with Rodney Cottier of LAMDA
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Two Shakespeare Master Classes with Rodney Cottier of LAMDA
October 30th - The First Folio
6:30pm – 9:30pm
and
November 1st - Shakespeare’s English Kings
6 - 9pm
at
Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists
16 W 5th St, St Paul, MN 55102
***These classes are free
This is a wonderful opportunity to gain some Shakespeare insight from one of the best in the world. Rodney Cottier is the Associate Director with the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) With 35 years of experience as a stage director and teacher of stage combat, acting and text at LAMDA, Rodney brings a wealth of knowledge to students, he has directed 25 plays from Shakespeare’s canon. Rodney worked at Shakespeare’s Globe as Master-of-Fight, on several productions, including Mark Rylance’s Hamlet, as well as at the Royal Opera House, English and Welsh National Opera, the National Theatre Studio and many regional theatres.
Oct 30th - Shakespeare’s First Folio This workshop takes students through a lively history of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre; explores questions of Elizabethan staging in contemporary performance; delves into Shakespeare’s First Folio; and uses these discussions to approach Shakespeare’s text by working select scenes from the complete plays, with special attention to the opening of King Lear.
This masterclass is interactive, stimulating, and a great deal of fun!
All experience levels are welcome.
**Please bring copies of Shakespeare’s complete works, any edition.**
Nov 1st - Shakespeare’s English Kings This lecture covers Shakespeare’s original Game of Thrones: the two great tetralogies; King Henry the Sixth [Parts 1,2 & 3] and King Richard the Third, and the later King Richard the Second, King Henry the Fourth [Parts 1 & 2] and King Henry the Fifth.
It looks at the historical sequence of events and the way that Shakespeare crafted them to create the eight plays, looking at the origins of The Hundred Years War between England and France, the conflict between the Houses of York and Lancaster, culminating in the rise to power of the Tudor dynasty.
Far from being a dry list of facts, this lecture is stimulating, frequently irreverent and a great deal of fun!
All experience levels are welcome.
No special preparation is required.
To register, head over to: https://www.fakefighting.com/classes/#currentclasses
or email me at: [email protected]