EXPLORING SHAKESPEARE ON YOUR FEET: a workshop led by Rebecca Gould

Date: Sunday, 16 May 2010

Venue: Ranan, Calcutta

Time: 10am to 5pm

Registration open

 Using Shakespeare’s plays Macbeth and The Tempest as starting points, this day-long workshop explores Shakespeare’s use of language and the ensemble staging of his plays. A variety of rehearsal room based approaches builds an understanding of the text while performance based practical strategies help improve the ability to stage the plays. A workshop designed to stimulate and enhance an enjoyment of studying and performing Shakespeare.

Suitable for actors, theatre-makers, students, teachers 

and anyone interested in the worlds created by Shakespeare.

Age group: College students and older

Workshop Fees: Rs. 350 (includes light lunch and refreshments)
 

Please contact Ranan at rananindia@gmail.com to register for the limited places. 

Enclose a brief bio data explaining your interest in the workshop. Ranan will confirm participation on a first-come-first-served basis subject to availability of places.

Please note: Participants must have a degree of familiarity with 'Macbeth' and 'The Tempest' in the original.

Rebecca Gould

Rebecca Gould is a theatre director and producer based in London. Previously she has been Associate Director at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth; Special Projects Producer at the National Theatre, London; Education Director at the English Shakespeare Company; Associate Director of Made in Wales Stage Company, Cardiff; New Writing Advisor for the National Theatre Wales and Project Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Learning & Performance Network. She has directed for the Education Departments at the National Theatre and the RSC, and several other theatre companies across England and Wales. She has also produced and directed productions and festivals in London, Cardiff, Hong Kong, Kolkata and Ghana. She has co-written a book on ‘Shakespeare and Young People’ for Methuen Drama.

Rebecca is visiting Kolkata on a British Council project to work on a stage adaptation of a new novel ‘Mrs D’Silva’s Detective Instincts and the Shaitan of Kolkata’ by Glen Peters, with city theatre group Tin Can