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About the Workshop
.A Message from Geoffrey Brumlik
Bridging an Essential Gap
I have worked with actors on Shakespeare for more than 30 years, whether in the capacity of a theatre director, associate director at a regional theatre, artistic director or most recently, as head the MFA Acting Program and a Senior Acting Tutor at the Bristol Old Vic Threatre School. Over that time one discovers a number of universial places where even the most giffed actors find they get stalled in thier work with Shakespeare.
The most common is a phenomenon one often hears expressed by early career actors. They describe a sort of gap they feel exists between where they have landed with their work on Shakespeare by way of their training and/or early professional experiences, and where they want their work to develop into in terms of the performances that most inspire them when seeing Shakespeare live in production.
Many are well aware they are capable of of tons more (and they are right), but don't feel they necessarily have all the tools to navigate beyond where they presently are at.
Rediscovering the Pleasure
The world is filled with Shakespeare workshops designed to solidify the foundations and the basic tools for tackling Shakespeare , as well as cement the steps necessary to prepare for work in the rehearsal Hall.
While these opportunities are esential, there are comparitivelyfew workshops meant to help actors take the next step in bridging the distance between being incredibly adept with those fundamental tools and genuinely begin discovering the pleasure of integrating all that knowledge with their own intelligence, intuition, and creativity as performers and in doing so find - in the most mature, sophisticated sense of it- a greater ease, pleasure iand creativelity n the playing Shakespeare.
Engaging in that Second Step
This workshop is an opportunity to encourage actors to make that second step forward in the evolution of thier work on Shakespeare, where the actual brilliance of each individual performer and the essential humaness that makes those plays so exciting can more fully come to the fore.
For those most passionate about Shakespeare, it is an opportunity to apply thier full three dimensional selves as actors to the experience of performingShakespeare’s plays, and feel thier work is more fully thier own.
