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Excerpts from workshops exploring the physicality of acting using games. Excerpts from workshops exploring the use of the voice in Shakespeare.
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Module code and title: AA306, Shakespeare: Text & Performance
Item code: AA306; VC01
Recording date: 1998-10
Published: 1998
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Duration: 02:25:05
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Producer: Jenny Bardwell
Presenter: Lizbeth Goodman
Publisher: Open University
Subject terms: Acting; Improvisation (Acting); Acting - Technique; Acting games; Movement (Acting); Voice culture; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 - Dramatic production
Footage description: View of sky panning down to Lizbeth standing in the Globe theatre holding two books,'The complete works of Williams Shakespeare' and 'The definitive guide to theatre games'. Close up of the two books. Montage of theatre game workshops. Children playing in a playground. Lizbeth in front of CSO, background shows children then book spines then 'Theatre games'. Clive Barker speaking. Workshop group playing tag. Clive Barker. Lizbeth and Clive Walker panning to Clive Walker. Clive Walker speaking interspersed with activities perfomed by workshop group. Clive and Lizbeth panning to Clive. Lizbeth holding 'The complete works of William Shakespeare' in front of CSO with books on floor in the background. Lizbeth in front of CSO with Fiona Shaw in background. Fiona Shaw conducting a workshop. Views of students seated in a circle on the floor, clapping, clicking their fingers. Workshop acts Macbeth Act I scene VII . Sensory perception exercise performed at workshop. Workshop students act scene from King Lear Act IV scene VI. Workshop. Words of Sonnet 57 in screen. Students role playing NY couple whilst readng Sonnet 57. Workshop students act scenes from King Lear Act III scene IV, Act IV scene VI and Act 1 scene II. Fiona concludes workshop, students shake hands and/or hug Fiona. Lizbeth in front of CSO showing RAC's Swan theatre, Stratford upon Avon. Christopher Luscombe, Claire Marchionne and Paul Greenwood acting interspersed with Cicely Berry speaking. View of Swan theatre from upper balcony looking down on Cicely Berry, Christopher Luscombe, Claire Marchionne and Paul Greenwood, interspersed with Cicely Berry speaking. Cicely Berry on stage with Christopher Luscombe, Claire Marchionne and Paul Greenwood rehearsing A Midsummer Night's Dream Act 1 scene 1, Act II scene 1 and Act IV scene 1. View of stage lights. View of playhouse. Cicley, Christopher, Claire and Paul on stage Lizabth in front of CSO showing Workshop scene with Fiona Shaw. Footage of Ian Holm as Puck. Lizbeth in front of CSO with audience clapping at Swan theatre changing to books. Footage of John Gielgud in "Diary for Timothy". Still of Haymarket theatre programme for Hamlet. Stills of John Gielgud. Footage of John Gielgud in "Prospero's books". Entrance of RADA. External night time view of the Gielgud theatre. Richard Attenborough talking to John Gielgud inside the Gielgud theatre interspersed with still. Footage of John Gielgud as Hamlet. Richard Attenborough talking to John Gielgud inside the Gielgud theatre interspersed with stills. Footage from "Prospero's books" interspersed with stills. Richard Attenborough talking to John Gielgud inside the Gielgud theatre interspersed with stills. Footage from the BBC's RSC's production of "The Cherry Orchard" Richard Attenborough talking to John Gielgud inside the Gielgud theatre interspersed with stills. Richard Attenborough and John Gielgud leaving the Gielgud theatre. Footage of John Gielgud. Still of the exterior of the Gielgud theatre.
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Videofinder number: 5684
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