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​4-Day Monologue Intensive

CLASSICAL MONOLOGUE STUDY

With ELIZABETH MARVEL

Monday, May 12: 5:00PM - 8:00pm

Monday, May 19: 5:00PM - 8:00pm

Monday, May 26: 5:00PM - 8:00pm​
Monday, June 2: 5:00PM - 8:00pm
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Sheen Center for Thought and Culture | Studio C
18 Bleecker Street, New York NY, 10012
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Class size is limited to 12 participants | $480 per student 

“Speak the speech as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue.”


For four hundred years, Shakespeare’s immortal words have had us rolling in the aisles, crying into our drinks, contemplating life's great mysteries, and rediscovering our humanity. Learn how to make Shakespeare’s language your own with award winning actor Elizabeth Marvel.

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Teaching Methodology:

"My method of teaching is a synthesis of tools I use as a working actor and info I have been gifted and gathered over a life in the field. It’s all practical, user friendly and often flirts with music theory."

 

Essential Question:

How do you create a warmup that has you best prepared to perform? How do you approach Shakespeare’s text and find the contemporary in the classical? What aspects of an actor’s preparation are most essential when approaching Shakespearian performance? How do you engage honestly with Shakespeare’s text?

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Enduring Understandings:

Actors will learn that Shakespeare’s language is not an archaic fortress that requires a knowledge of the rules to enter but rather an intensely honest heightened text that requires your intelligence, physicality, imagination, and truth. From the novice to the skilled this class will help you dive into the power of Shakespeare’s language making it your own, and discovering the deep emotional truths we share in common with his characters.

Instructor:

ELIZABETH MARVEL has appeared on Broadway in Picnic, Other Desert Cities, Top Girls, Seascape, An American Daughter, Taking Sides, and The Seagull. Off-Broadway credits include Almost an Evening (Atlantic Theatre Company); Dark Matters (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater); Hedda Gabler (Obie Award); A Streetcar Named Desire (Obie); Shopping and Fucking (New York Theatre Workshop); Thérèse Raquin (Obie, CSC); Misalliance (Obie, Roundabout Theatre Company); and Julius Caesar; Troilus and Cressida; King Lear; and Silence, Cunning, Exile (Public Theater). Regional: McCarter Theatre, Guthrie Theater, American Repertory Theater, Stratford Theatre Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival. Film and Television: Pretty Bird, Burn After Reading, The Dying Gaul, Ten Hundred Kings, True Grit, The Bourne Legacy, Lincoln, and Hyde Park on Hudson, House of Cards (Netflix), Homeland (Showtime), A Dog Year (HBO), The District (CBS), Kidnapped, Nurse Jackie, 30 Rock, The Newsroom, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Homicide. Training: Juilliard.

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Schedule:

Monday, May 12 | 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM - Class 1: Preparation and Performance

Class will begin with Beth teaching students the warmup she does every day that she performs. In the second half of the class 2 students will work their monologues for 40 minutes each. â€‹

 

Monday, May 19 | 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM - Class 2: Practice, practice, practice

4 actors will work on their monologues for 40-45 minutes each.

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Monday, May 26 | 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM - Class 3: Flexing the muscle

4 actors will work on their monologues for 40-45 minutes each.

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Monday, June 2 | 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM - Class 4: The work never ends

2 actors will work their monologues for 40-45 minutes each. Then all actors will perform their monologues once more, followed by a Q&A​

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Preparation:

You should have a fully memorized classical monologue you wish to work on.​

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Dress:
Comfortable clothing that you can move and breathe freely in, sneakers, and a water bottle are strongly encouraged.
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Concerns? Questions?

Contact Nathan Winkelstein.

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All of our teachers are committed to these classes. As working performers, unexpected conflicts may arise. If this were to happen, Red Bull would strive to provide an equally qualified replacement to ensure the quality of your experience. We thank you in advance for this understanding. 

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