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Week 3 – Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” – Hermione’s arrest and defense at trial – The Rehearsal Room [Video, Audio, and Transcript versions]
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</figure>What happened in Week 3?
🏁 In our third week, highlights include:
- Geoffrey’s exercise to help actors connect
- Exploring the psychological aspects of jealousy
- Transitions from personal to royal plural pronouns
Watch the Week 3 Session!
Full transcript included at the bottom of this post.
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</figure>And there’s the audio version too – you still get everything from listening!
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Short on time?
Check out this 60-second clip from Week 3 where Shannon, Geoffrey and Gideon discuss line endings with Shakespeare’s verse!
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THE SCENE
Our group will be working on Act 2, Scene 1 and Act 3, Scene 2 from Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale:
- Leontes has Hermione arrested for adultery and treason
- Hermione tries to defend herself in open court
Scenes from the Folger Shakespeare Library here and here.
The Winter’s Tale Team – we have artists in LA, San Diego, Philly, and New York!
- DIRECTOR: Geoffrey Wade
- DRAMATURG: Gideon Rappaport
- LEONTES: Christopher Guilmet
- HERMIONE: Shannone Lee Clair
- ANTIGONUS: J. Paul Nicholas
Read more about the artists here.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
One of our dramaturgs, Dr. Gideon Rappaport, has written three books on Shakespeare:
- Appreciating Shakespeare
- William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated
- Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline
And there’s more!
Catch up on our other workshops featuring lots of Shakespeare scenes, from Hamlet, King Lear, Troilus and Cressida, Midsummer, As You Like It, and our Twelfth Night repertory extravaganza – all on the podcast and YouTube. If you’ve missed any presentations thus far, click here to find them all.
Geoffrey
Anyway, here’s what we’re gonna do today, you guys. And
thi this will smack a little bit of, of what we did in The Crucible, because what I’m gonna ask you to do is speak directly to the camera and whoever is not speaking to watch the screen.
And when you are speaking,
I’d like to, to look down at the script, or if you have it on your, on your screen.
Look at it on the screen long enough to, long enough to pick up a line as, so it’ll go something like this. You knew of his departure as, you know, what you have done as, you
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