I’d also say that for me, acting Shakespeare requires an odd marriage of the highly cerebral and the highly emotive: on top of the usual script analysis work of breaking down the play, I have to incorporate techniques for recognizing rhetorical patterns in the language, and isolating what the images are, and scanning lines to look for emphasis/acting clues, and keeping Shakespeare’s Lexicon and an OED nearby so I know EXACTLY what I’m saying; but at the same time, of course nowadays as actors we want to bring emotional depth and spontaneity to what we’re doing, and that kind of stuff you can’t theorize about, you have to get up, get in there, do it, be alive, and experience it. Then you hope for the best! Read DC Metro Theater Arts interview with Clifton Duncan, Caliban in THE TEMPEST: goo.gl/fFaFxO For THE TEMPEST tickets and information: goo.gl/EEFRqg
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 17:00:00 +0000
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