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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.
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’.
http://www.fresnobeehive.com/archives/2008/12/theater_review_75.html#more
Excerpt from Donald Munro’s review:
“I thought Moore’s “Hamlet” soliloquy was hysterical — and we even get a good-natured ribbing at Shakespeare himself questioning why the Bard offered a seemingly sounding suicide speech at a moment when the character is contemplating murder. Petrie’s ancient Polonius is a scream, and Hume has an amusing romp as a flighty Juliet. . . .
From Shakespearean scholars to those who hated him in school, “Complete Works” has enough guffaws to exercise just about anyone’s belly-laugh muscles.”
Each month during our off-season, Woodward Shakespeare Festival presents a free reading of a Shakespeare play or other classic to the public. Our more experienced actors are paired alongside lesser experienced community volunteers for the presentation. The experience allows those unfamiliar with Shakespeare performance a chance to learn from more seasoned actors and our seasoned actors act as teachers and mentors to the newbies. Together, they read for an audience eager to become more familiar with Shakespeare’s canon. The experience puts a diverse group of people together who all share a passion for The Bard and other classical playwrights.
November’s Reading at the Woodward Park Regional Library and in conjunction with the Fresno County Library was the Shakespeare/Fletcher collaboration, Henry VIII.
WSF Henry VIII Introductions (5min)
WSF Henry VIII Act 1 & 2 (53 min)
WSF Henry VIII Act 4 & 5 (35 min)
Simply click the links to listen on your computer, or right click and choose “Save Link As. . .” to save in your Music or Audio Folder on your computer. Then download to your mp3 player at will.
The following are dates are coming up on our Production Calendar:
Sunday, July 27th: 1st Hamlet Set Workday, begins 8:30 a.m. (Further workdays TBA)
Sunday, July 27th: 12N load out and clean up, begins at 11 a.m.
Wednesday, July 30- Wednesday, August 5– Hamlet Costume Fittings, to be scheduled by Debora Bolen.
Sunday, August 10th — Hamlet First Tech Run
Monday, August 11th– Hamlet Costume Load in. Tech Rehearsal.
Tuesday, August 12th– Hamlet tech/dress rehearsal
Wednesday, August 13th– Hamlet Full tech/dress. FINAL REHEARSAL
Thursday, August 14th– Hamlet Opens.
The following dates have events in the Rotary Amphitheater (that we know of!): Saturday, 16th and Saturday, 23rd.
Saturday, August 30th– Deadline for WSF New Playwright Competition
Saturday, September 13th– Hamlet closing night.
Sunday, September 14th– Hamlet load out. Hamlet strike begins. Full strike dates and times TBA.
As company members, we ask that you arrange your schedules as well as possible to fully participate! We need to meet all of our deadlines to finish this season out successfully. The company needs you!
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