Shakespeare Quiz ANSWERS: January, 2009

“LAST LAUGHS”
Following are the final lines of five Shakespeare plays often classified as comedies.  Match the right title to each concluding statement.

1.  Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tam’d so.”
2. Sir John/To Master Brooke you yet shall hold your word,/For he tonight shall lie with Mistress Ford.”
3.  We came into the world like brother and brother;/And now let’s go hand in hand, not one before another.”
4.  Well, while I live I’ll fear no other thing/So sore, as keeping safe Nerissa’s ring.
5.  Till then I’ll sweat and seek about for eases,/And at that time bequeath you my diseases.

a.  The Merry Wives if Windsor
b. The Comedy of Errors
c. The Taming of the Shrew
d. Troilus and Cressida
e.  The Merchant of Venice

 

 

ANSWERS:

1.C spoken by Lucentio

2. A spoken by Ford to Falstaff

3. B  Dromio of Ephesus

4. E  Gratiano

5. D Pandarus bequeathing his venereal diseases.

2009 WSF Auditions Announced

Auditions for Woodward Shakespeare Festival’s 2009 Season of Plays, As You Like It and Richard III, will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. on Monday, March 9th and Tuesday, March 10th at the California Arts Academy, Blackstone in Fresno. By appointment only. Please come prepared to read a monologue 2-3 minutes in length.

Contact Program Manager Laura Vogt– laura.vogt77@gmail.com– to schedule a time. If you cannot appear at the auditions due to a rehearsal schedule or other commitment, please discuss other appointment options with Laura.

WSF Spring Workshops!

Woodward Shakespeare Offers Affordable Workshops for Local Actors:
Classes in Shakespeare’s language, audition techniques at a low cost.

Woodward Shakespeare Festival is pleased to sponsor two day-long acting workshops offered to Fresno area actors interested in improving their audition techniques and their use of Shakespeare’s language.

The first workshop will be Audition Techniques: Choices and Language held on Saturday, February 21st– two weeks prior to WSF’s 2009 season auditions.

The second workshop will take place on Saturday, April 4th and will focus on Shakespeare’s Shapely Language, an approach to speaking the language of Shakespeare developed by renowned voice and text coach Jan Gist at the Old Globe in San Diego.

The cost for a single workshop is $20, $15 for students and goes directly to offset the costs of the workshop.

Both workshops will be taught by Jennifer Sampson, a teaching-artist with an M.F.A. from the University of San Diego and a former student of Gist’s.
Sampson has extensive experience in teaching classical acting techniques having taught and performed with the Old Globe in San Diego, the La Jolla Playhouse and the Summer Theatre Institute of
New York City.

To register for workshops or for more information, click to www.woodwardshakespeare.org and choose ‘WORKSHOPS’.