Acting Shakespeare

Acting Shakespeare can be a daunting task for the most experienced of actors; we get so caught up in the text we forget that Shakespeare himself was an actor and wrote for actors not academics. Shakespeare’s characters are funny, sexy, serious, smart, sassy and above all human. This course will concentrate on combining verse and text analysis with some secret tricks of the trade to bring the stories and the characters to life.

Rachel More completed her Master of Theatre Arts in Directing from Toi Whakaari, in 2003. She has directed successful productions at both Circa and Downstage. She co-directed two very popular “Summer Shakespeares”, “Much Ado About Nothing” and “The Taming of the Shrew” at Te Papa, & has assessed for the National Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival in Wellington. Rachel is currently directing first year acting students at Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School in “As You Like It”, where she is an acting tutor, and will then act in the Dunedin performance of Roger Hall’s “Four Flat Whites in Italy’.