This six-week session will take place on Mondays 7-9pm from 16 Jan thru 20 Feb
Early registration is only $195 for the entire course
$295 (for registration after Dec 15)
Session is open enrollment but you will need to send a headshot/resume for class placement.
An exploration of Shakespeare's plays and how to integrate a fight into a scene. You will learn how to incorporate characters’ violence naturally and seamlessly into the story. This six-week course is an immersion into the treachery, debauchery, and murder in Shakespeare'’s plays.
In the first hour of each class you will examine Shakespeare with Artistic Director, Seth Duerr, to explore the text and how language reveals intention for the character. Then we’'ll get scenes “on their feet” to practice expressing your intentions with clarity in performing a scene.
In the second hour you will study with Fight Director Jared Kirby to learn the fundamental principles of combat for stage such as safe distance, cooperative energy, planar geometry and the process of developing physical actions to create extraordinary fights with martial intent.
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The instructors are YSC Artistic Director, Seth Duerr and Resident Fight Director, Jared Kirby
Mr. Duerr has directed and starred in over half of the Shakespearean canon. He was the Assistant Artistic Director of Jean Cocteau Repertory and has performed twice at The Public Theater’'s Shakespeare in the Park and The Acting Company.
Mr. Kirby is a fight director and head of the NY Art of Combat. He regularly directs staged violence for NYC theatres and teaches at SUNY Purchase and the Martinez Academy of Arms. He teaches workshops across the US and around the world including Canada, England, Scotland, Finland and Italy.
Class size will be limited to ensure full attention to all enrollees.
www.jaredkirby.com
has appeared in 31 productions of Shakespeare. Roles include: Iago, Claudius, Talbot, Margaret, Chorus, Leontes, Antonio (Tempest), as well as directing and playing the title role in Coriolanus, Timon of Athens, King Lear, Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, Titus Andronicus, and Richard III. He is the Founder/Artistic Director of The York Shakespeare Company and was the Assistant Artistic Director of the Jean Cocteau Repertory, playing Friar Laurence in Romeo and Juliet; The Cook in Mother Courage; Lexy in Candida; and Cléante in The Miser. For The Public Theater he has twice appeared in Shakespeare in the Park: Macbeth directed by Moisés Kaufman and Romeo and Juliet directed by Michael Greif. Mr. Duerr wrote and directed the first author-approved adaptation of one of Ian McEwan's novels, In Between the Sheets. He recently reprised his performance as Captain Ahab in Orson Welles Moby DickRehearsed, touring the country with The Acting Company. Recent performances as John Proctor in The Crucible for manhattantheatresource and Tupolski in The Pillowman at APAC as well as directing and playing Jamie in YSCs production of Long Days Journey Into Night. Film: The Summoning of Everyman (Death), The Kindergarten Shuffle and the forthcoming The Jew of Malta (Barabas). He is the lead vocal actor in the new World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. Mr. Duerr is a proud member of Actors Equity Association and The Dramatists Guild and serves on the Advisory Board of Wingspan Arts with Donna Murphy and Scott Schwartz.
was founded in 2001 by its current Artistic Director, Seth Duerr. Working under the classical Actor-Manager system, YSC produced the critically acclaimed repertories of Richard of York, Julius Caesar, and Richard II in 2001; Coriolanus,Timon of Athens, King Lear, and Henry V in 2002; Richard of York, Macbeth, and Hamlet in 2003; Henry IV Parts I & II, Titus Andronicus, and Waiting for Godot in 2004; the first author-approved adaptation of an Ian McEwan novel, In Between the Sheets, in 2006; Nagle Jacksons The Quick-Change Room in 2007; Randy Cohens solo-comedy The Punishing Blow, The Merchant of Venice & Marlowes The Jew of Malta in 2009; and Eugene ONeills Long Days Journey Into Night in 2010. Richard of York, a conflation of Henry VI Part III and Richard III was published in 2003.
6th Season Resident Company : Bob Armstrong*, Sarah Bowles, Andrew Broussard, Cristina Carrión, MaConnia Chesser*,
Seth Duerr, Clifton Dunn, Bill Fairbairn*, Patrick Goss, Gabe Green*, Davis Hall*, Joseph Hamel, Alexander Harvey, Julie Jesneck*,
Jared Kirby, Everett O'Neil, Christian Rizzuti, Jenn Remke, Mickey Ryan, Jerilyn Sackler*, Rebecca Street*, Fred Stuart,
Jeffrey Evan Thomas*, Jeff Topf, Renee Williams and Roger Yeh.
Designers: Driscoll Otto, Stephen K. Dobay, Elyse Handelman, John D. Ivy, Bradley King, Brian Morvant, Jimmy Lawlor, Ehren Ziegler
Press Representative: Kampfire PR, Katie Rosin
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