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John Patrick lays out a bold new vision for the future of training actors. Could we all be Acting Teachers?
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August 30, 2018
Voice Coach
Acting Teacher
Welcome to the Revolution! John Patrick is calling for a radical change to the way we approach voice work and actor training.
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Sam Shepard Quote:
“I feel there are territories within that are totally unknown.
Huge, mysterious and dangerous territories. We think we know ourselves, when we really know only this little bitty part. We have this social person that we present to each other. We have all these galaxies inside of us.
And if we don’t enter those in art, of one kind or another, whether it’s playwriting, or painting or music, or whatever, then I don’t understand the point in doing anything.
I try to go into parts of myself that are unknown. And I think that those parts are related to everybody. They’re not unique to me. They’re not my personal domain.
Catharsis is getting rid of something. I’m not looking to get rid of it, I’m looking to find it. I’m not doing this in order to vent demons. I want to shake hands with them.”
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Liz Wisan is a member of the New Neighborhood, a theater company in NYC. She also works seriously as a clown. Although she admits that sometimes it feels like she is in a cult, she finds the clown work extremely rewarding as an actor. Check this short interview out!
And here is her full interview about working on Kate in Taming of the Shrew!
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The Taming of the Shrew, Act 5, Scene 2
Kate
July 31, 2018
Liz Wisan is performing Kate in her first season at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. What surprises does she have for the role and does Hudson Valley have for her? A rousing interview about love and relationships ensues.
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Here is a link to Liz talking about clowns and her company The New Neighborhood.
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Richard II; Act 3, Scene 2
Richard
July 1, 2018
In her second season at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Julia Coffey takes on the role of Richard II, Shakespeare’s most famous deposed king. It’s a play which bridges the gap between the medieval and the modern world, and with a woman in the title role, this production opens some intriguing questions about the times we’re living in today.
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Henry V; Prologue
Chorus
May 31, 2018
Like a great Jazz Musician, Shakespeare uses Iambic pentameter as the underlying time signature to his rhetorical flourishes. David Hammond explores this and many other ways of approaching the first playwright to give his characters language that pursues objective actions.
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