Looking to brush-up your skills? Have you been interested in performing Shakespeare, but haven’t ever learned the verse? Does the phrase iambic pentameter make you roll your eyes? Feeling like Shakespeare’s language is strange, dense, hard to access?
This workshop will explore the fundamental structure of most of Shakespeare’s writing – the verse. We will discuss its form and function, investigate its rhythms, and ultimately work to feel the verse in our bodies as the carrier of thought and emotion.
This 3 hr workshop, led by Shakespeare BASH’d associate artist Daniel Briere, will be active, having participants move through the space, working on their feet. Participants are asked to bring a printed copy of a Shakespeare speech in verse (no need to memorize!), which we will look at both with a partner and all together.
Date & Time (note new date):
November 6th, 2022, 1pm to 4pm
Location: TBA (in person, in Toronto)
In order to make our spaces accessible to all who wish to join, masks will be required for all Shakespeare BASH’d programming. We believe working in masks helps keep everyone safe and comfortable.
Cost: $50, $75
Sliding scale, based on what you can afford.
*Please contact us if you wish to participate but find this price inaccessible. We can discuss options.
November 6th, 2022, 1pm to 4pm
Location: TBA (in person, in Toronto)
In order to make our spaces accessible to all who wish to join, masks will be required for all Shakespeare BASH’d programming. We believe working in masks helps keep everyone safe and comfortable.
Cost: $50, $75
Sliding scale, based on what you can afford.
*Please contact us if you wish to participate but find this price inaccessible. We can discuss options.
About Daniel Briere:
Daniel is an actor, director, writer and performer with a thorough knowledge of classical text. For Shakespeare BASH’d, he has directed a staged reading of Gorboduc (the first true elizabethan verse tragedy), and performed such roles as Iachimo in Cymbeline, Duke Ferdinand/Senior in As You Like It, Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night, and Polonius in Hamlet.
Daniel spent three seasons at the Stratford Festival, where he played in two of Tim Carroll’s original practises productions, as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, and as Robert Faulkonbridge in King John. He has most recently played Claudius in Hamlet at Shakespeare By The Sea, directed by BASH’d alumni Drew Douris-O’Hara.
Daniel is an actor, director, writer and performer with a thorough knowledge of classical text. For Shakespeare BASH’d, he has directed a staged reading of Gorboduc (the first true elizabethan verse tragedy), and performed such roles as Iachimo in Cymbeline, Duke Ferdinand/Senior in As You Like It, Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night, and Polonius in Hamlet.
Daniel spent three seasons at the Stratford Festival, where he played in two of Tim Carroll’s original practises productions, as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, and as Robert Faulkonbridge in King John. He has most recently played Claudius in Hamlet at Shakespeare By The Sea, directed by BASH’d alumni Drew Douris-O’Hara.