Week 1 - The Winter's Tale - Hermione's arrest/defense - The Rehearsal Room

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🏁 In our first week, highlights include:

• the play as a tragic comedy and its significance in Shakespeare's career

• Leontes sudden and irrational jealousy towards his wife, Hermione.

• the importance of pacing and punctuation in the text.

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🎭 CREATIVE TEAM - we have artists in LA, San Diego, Philly, and New York!

• DIRECTOR: Geoffrey Wade
• DRAMATURG: Gideon Rappaport
• LEONTES: Christopher Guilmet
• HERMIONE: Shannone Lee Clair
• ANTIGONUS: J. Paul Nicholas

More about this group: https://workingactorsjourney.com/workshop/winterstale-hermione-arrest-defense-week-1

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😮 THE SCENE

Our group will be working on Act 2, Scene 1 and Act 3, Scene 2 from Shakespeare’s The Winter's Tale:

• Leontes has Hermione arrested for adultery and treason

• Hermione tries to defend herself in open court

Scenes from the Folger Shakespeare Library here and here.

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📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: One of our dramaturgs, Dr. Gideon Rappaport, has written three books on Shakespeare:

• Appreciating Shakespeare: https://amzn.to/3XjY6Pe
• Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline: https://amzn.to/3KEzyZK
• William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated: https://amzn.to/3xdt012

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