Reimagining Shakespeare: The Bard Out Loud for the 21st Century

(2 Credits)

This course provides a hands-on exploration in performing Shakespeare’s work and offers a guided frame for freely and fully accessing and living out the text in performance for a 21 st century audience. The focus of the class is on breaking down Shakespeare’s text for literal and emotive meaning, finding our own connections to the characters, stories, and circumstances in Shakespeare’s plays, and allowing the material to come to life through in-class exercises and rehearsals. Students will work on a monologue, a two-person scene, and a final ensemble piece involving the full class. This studio acting class is open to students at all levels of experience. The course will not count as studio credit for Tisch Drama majors.