Shakespeare in Residence at Your School
This is more than one master class or workshop. We come to you with a playful and enlightening curriculum of progression that encourages children to learn on their feet. Through multiple sessions, students will build a theatrical foundation of physical, vocal, textual, and player vocabulary, allowing them to form an artistic community for the purpose of enjoying and creating classical theatre.
"Never have I found so much joy in playing a scene from Macbeth than when this dynamic duo introduced me to the many acting cues written in Shakespeare's cleverly crafted iambic pentameter. So inspired have I been by my experience with TSC that I, a senior on the verge of graduation, have decided to pursue a career in which Shakespeare will be a main player."
-Elise Heuberger, student, St. Mary's Episcopal School
Build Your Own Residency
TSC will work with you and your school to craft a curriculum and determine the appropriate number of sessions and teaching artists needed to bring Shakespeare alive and playable for your students.
Below you will find the many offerings that TSC has for you to build your own residency. A residency consists of a minimum of three sessions with the same group of up to 30 students. A residency can happen in consecutive days or over consecutive weeks.
To Note:
- It is helpful for the students to have read the play, preferably out loud and even on their feet, prior to the residency beginning.
- Each residency session will have an artistic focus on the play of the teacher/school's choice.
- A large working space is advisable for the movement-oriented sessions.
- All sessions are highly interactive.
Session One: The actor secrets in Shakespeare's verse and fun with rhetoric
- Focused around the play of your choosing.
- Students will actively participate in the text exploration on their feet.
- Students will be able to activate rhetorical figures of speech such as alliteration, assonance, and onomatopoeia.
- Students will uncover the secret stage directions hidden in Shakespeare's verse.
Session Two: Stage Combat
- Students will learn basic unarmed combat techniques.
- Students will choreograph their own unarmed combat fight consisting of four moves from the basic skills.
- Students will show-off to one another their self-choreographed fights.
- Students will learn a choreographed unarmed combat fight using text from the play in focus.
Session Three: Elizabethan Dance
- Students will learn a series of Elizabethan dance steps as a group, accompanied by a piece of music from the play in focus.
- Students will be given written hand-outs of the dance steps they have learned and then placed into small groups to create their own personal dance with these steps, plus one or two of their own for the ending.
- Students will give a final show-off of their original Elizabethan dance, accompanied by the piece of music from the play in focus.
Session Four: Fooling Around with Shakespeare's Clowns
- Students will play within a Clown Circle multiple games and exercises intended to showcase the courage of the clown and wit of the fool.
- Students will explore the master/servant relationship or clown/audience relationship within the play in focus.
Session Five: Becoming a Player
- Students will learn to feed-in and be fed-in (Speaking text without first reading it).
- Students will experience the sensation of being looked at and welcoming the scrutiny.
- Students will learn basic acting techniques (objectives, actions, given circumstances) for scene and soliloquy play using using text from the play in focus.
Session Six: Directing and Being Directed
- Students will experience basic directorial concepts (status, focus, obstacles) building upon the scenes they started with the previous week.
- Students will be urged to have the scenes committed to memory for this session.
- After a demo by a TSC artist directing volunteer student players, students will have an opportunity to both direct and be directed by fellow students.
Session Seven: The Director's Vision and Production Choices
- A TSC Director will guide students through discovery in a production process.
- Artistic choices for a particular production will be explored.
- Students will be encouraged to make their own artistic choices regarding the production of the play in focus.
Pricing Structure
$350 - 3 Day, 50 - 55 minute interactive Playshops with one group of up to 30 students.
$500 - 5 Day, 50 - 55 minute interactive Playshops with one group of up to 30 students.
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St. Mary’s Students Fight like Amazons |
Please call Slade Kyle at 901-759-0604 or e-mail
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to begin crafting your own unique residency.
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