Beginning Monday, September 27, and continuing each Monday for 6 weeks through November 1, Jane Alden will lead a workshop on Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra at The Orcas Island Public Library from 1 to 2:30 p.m.
“We will use the time each week to explore the play together, focusing on it the way directors and actors do, in order to experience the play from the inside and bring it to external life,” says Alden, who directed Orcas Center’s 2009 production of Great Expectations.
“The goal of a director is to turn what is on the page into a living entity, one that affects and touches an audience. That is my goal for this workshop. I want to direct our exploration in such a way as to allow us to come away with a personal, emotional experience of having been immersed in the world of this play. To be able to say that, for a time, we’ve lived in this world.”
The workshop will cost $60.00 for the 6 weeks; it will be limited to 10 participants. Each workshop participant will need to have a play script. These can be ordered through Darvill’s Bookstore.
