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This practical workshop will allow you to experience the rehearsal techniques used by professional actors and directors. By working as actors with the text, you will discover how language, rhythm and imagery inform character and relationships in Shakespeare’s plays. As well as work on the text, we will also look at some basic acting exercises and rehearsal techniques, e.g. the definition and playing of objectives and actions, and how these techniques are used to animate a scene.

We want to support you as an artist in the classroom by opening up a fuller range of creative approaches to Shakespeare, to enrich your own creativity and inspire your students. We will be using scenes and speeches from Macbeth but this work can be applied to any Shakespeare play.

Andrea Ainsworth has been at the Abbey since 1995 and has worked with countless directors and actors on everything from Shakespeare to new plays by Mark O’Rowe. She was a core tutor on the Professional Actor Training course in Trinity for many years and also gives workshops and classes in voice and text to both professional and non-professionals at the Abbey Theatre.

Shakespeare for Teachers is part of a new Abbey Theatre initiative set up to provide opportunities for training in Shakespeare for a variety of groups including actors, teachers, students and members of the public.

Course dates: Fri 26, Sat 27, Sun 28 February 2010

Times: Friday 26, 7.30 – 9.30pm
Saturday 27, 10 – 6pm
Sunday 28, 11 – 2pm

Venue: Abbey Theatre
Price: €45

The workshop is open to post primary school teachers and places will be allocated on a first come first served basis. Places are limited so please book early.

Booking: (01) 87 87 222

This workshop is part of the Abbey Theatre’s ongoing effort to engage with as wide an audience as possible and to use our professional and training services in the community.