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Title of Event: SHAKESPEARE TO SHEPARD - A FREE ACTING CLASS
When: Thursday, February 11, 2010 6:00 PM
Location: The Drama Book Shop, 250 West 40th Street, New York, NY 10018
Description: A FREE acting class with Actress/Coach Sybil Lines with a wine & cheese reception after

For actors intrigued, nervous, or thrilled at working on Shakespeare’s characters, this workshop is a free sample class with Actress/Coach Sybil Lines. Her visceral approach makes it suitable for beginners as well as more seasoned professionals. SHAKESPEARE TO SHEPARD, a 6-week acting course, is planned to commence in February.

SHAKESPEARE TO SHEPARD is an acting workshop exploring the similarities and differences, for an actor, when tackling Shakespeare’s works compared with those of modern American playwrights. There will be scene study work on modern writers (Mamet, Albee, Miller, etc.) and Shakespeare. Sybil encourages the exploration of the primal needs that prompt a character to speak. She prompts the detective work in analyzing the use of a specific word and what the character is aiming to shift in the listener’s mind. The class uses exercises that help the actor manifest not only psychological emotional intensity but also the energy and appropriate physical power for classical text. Understanding the requirements of heightened language and meter, while avoiding presentational performances (animated poetry readings, phony tonal qualities, sing-song delivery or drowning in the rhythm), is the basis of her classical course, “Shakespeare from the Loins,” and these exercises will also be included in the workshop. When writers choose to write a drama over a novel or poem, they entrust the completion of their communication to an actor. It is up to you to fulfill that trust with an approach that focuses on organic specificity, modulation and new thought while honing technical skills that enable the full expression of a passionate imagination.

SYBIL LINES has appeared on BBC television and was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company performing with Dame Judi Dench, Roger Rees and Lisa Harrow. Broadway: Bedroom Farce with John Lithgow, Waiting in the Wings with Lauren Bacall and Rosemary Harris, Lettice & Lovage with Dame Maggie Smith and Aren't We All with Rex Harrison and Lynn Redgrave. Off-Broadway: Rockabye:Footfalls with Billie Whitelaw Other NY: Claw (MTC), The Philanderer (Roundabout), The Penultimate Problem of Sherlock Holmes (Hudson Guild), Crimes of Vautrin (SoHo Rep.), Counting Hours (La Mama), Homebody/Kabul (NY Theatre Workshop), School for Scandal (The Pearl) and Quatermaine's Terms (Playhouse 91). Shakespeare: Viola, Rosalind, Mistress Quickly, Mistress Ford, Juliet's Nurse, Titania, Lady Capulet, Maria, Portia, Alice, Marianne, Timandra, the Princess of France and Lady Macbeth over many seasons with Seattle's ACT, the Alabama and Orlando Shakespeare Festivals, the Folger Theatre in Washington D.C. and various British theatres. Other Classics include: Duchess of Malfi (Julia), Miser (Elise), Rivals (Julia), Three Sisters (Masha), and Varya in The Cherry Orchard (Helen Hayes' Nomination). Selected Regional: Stepping Out (Pasadena Playhouse and the Berkshire Festival); Breaking the Code (South Coast Rep.); Ashes (Cincinnati Playhouse dir. Emily Mann); Otherwise Engaged (the Goodman); Lettice & Lovage; Dancing at Lughnasa; Equus; Lost in Yonkers; Mrs. Poultney for Kate Saxon, Bel in Moonlight with director Joy Zinoman and Sofya Tolstoy in The Last Station with Jerome Kilty. Film & TV: Edge of Night; Madge on Murder She Wrote; The Hogan Family; Mickey Blue Eyes. Teaching: London's Central School of Speech and Drama; The Circle in the Square in NYC; Catholic University in Washington D.C.; the Drey Institute at Rollins College; Actors' and Directors' Lab; ACTeen at Weist Barron and the Corner Loft Studio in Greenwich Village.

Each week our staff recommends one play that's new, interesting, or just flat-out fantastic. We aim to encourage dialogue and broaden your horizons, so we frequently try to choose plays of which you may not be aware.

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