THE SHAKESPEARE INSTITUTE

The Los Angeles Shakespeare Institute Is a unique, two-week institute for English and Drama teachers, presented by The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles and the UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

The Institute focuses on teaching Shakespeare through performance. The course features an international faculty of scholars, educators and theatre professionals;and takes advantage of one of the world's great libraries and research centers, its contemplative gardens, and its proximity to the entertainment capital of the world.

Topics covered Include scene study, verse and text work, voice, movement, classroom pedagogy, and theatre history and criticism. Attendance at selected plays and museums is required during the two week course. Outside reading and a final evaluation are also required.

LOS ANGELES SHAKESPEARE INSTITUTE

Summer 2020

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course Title: “The Division of the Kingdom” – King Lear and Social Justice

Content area/Topic: Shakespeare (English/Drama)

Target Grade Levels: 6-17

Multicultural Course: General

Total Credit Points: 5 (LAUSD approved; other school districts please contact us)

Class Dates: July 6-17, 2020

Class Meeting Hours: Monday - Friday 9:30AM - 4:30PM; plus attendance at four performances at area theaters TBA 7:00PM to 10:00PM

Class Location: Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles (1238 W. First Street, LA 90026; UCLA William Andrews Clark Library, 2520 Cimarron, Ave., LA 20018

Total number of sessions: 14 (10 days x 9:30 a.m.- 4:30 p.m.; plus four sessions at theatres)

Total number of hours: 75 hours

Total outside prep hours: 150 hours

Assignment Completion Date: July 30, 2020

Course fee: $250.00

Maximum enrollment: 24

Classes during the two-week workshop include: scene analysis, acting and directing techniques, curriculum development, research techniques, and lectures by distinguished scholars and theatre professionals. The course includes visits to Los Angeles area museums and attendance at theatres.

While the modules that constitute the course are the same each summer, the content within each module varies every summer. The standard modules for The Shakespeare Institute are:

Text analysis (Duff – 6 hours); Verse (Scheeder – 6 hours); Acting and Directing Workshop (Fantasia – 12 hours); Voice (Sanders – 3 hours); Movement (Marsden – 3 hours); Classroom Techniques (Lohmann & Nicholson – 6 hours); Teaching Tutorials (Todd – 6 hours; Fantasia - 3 hours); Scholars’ Lecture (TBA – 6 hours); Museum Seminars (Getty & Clark Library staffs TBA – 12 hours); Play Production (theatre attendance TBA – 12 hours)

THE SHAKESPEARE INSTITUTE

The international faculty is lead by writer and director Louis Fantasia, formerly Director of the International Shakespeare Globe Centre's Teaching Shakespeare Through Performance Institute and former President of Deep Springs College. Louis is the author of Instant Shakespeare, and Talking Shakespeare. Staff includes master teachers and theatre practitioners, as well as guest speakers and visiting scholars. Planned faculty for 2020 includes:

Charles Duff, international theatre and opera director, teacher and author, has been involved with the rebuilt Shakespeare's Globe and Globe Education from its inception. He is the author of The Lost Summer (Nick Herne UK and Heinemann USA), which chronicles the heyday of the British theatre between the two world wars.

Frances Marsden is a member of the faculty and Board of Directors of the Alexander Training Institute of Los Angeles, Inc. She is past Chair of the Training Approval Committee of the American Society for the Alexander Technique. She also maintains studios in North Hollywood and Pasadena.

Skip Nicholson has taught English for 20 years at South Pasadena High School where he was Head of English. He has worked as a master teacher in Folger Shakespeare Library/NEH summer institutes, and for conferences of the Shakespeare Globe Center and the English Speaking Union.

Yolanda Sanders BA in Communications, Howard University; MFA in Acting, UCLA. Some of her work includes the national one-person show, "Faces of America," Voice of America's popular radio drama "Pay Day," as well as other numerous radio dramas, documentaries, and PSA's.

Dr. Louis Scheeder is the Associate Dean of Faculty and Interdisciplinary Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, and Associate Arts Professor at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. He is the co-author (with Shane Ann Younts) of All the Words on Stage: A Complete Pronunciation Dictionary for the Plays of William Shakespeare (Smith & Kraus).

Dr. Susan Gayle Todd is Producing Artistic Director of Austin Scottish Rite Theater and cofounder/director of The Weird Sisters Women’s Theater Collective in Austin, Texas Her playwriting credits include Sycorax, and numerous cross-cultural adaptations for young audiences. She received a 2016 B. Iden Payne award for her direction of Rosita y Conchita. Her play Sycorax was recently produced at University of Kansas.

For more information contact:

Marina Oliva, Director of Education

The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles / 1238 West 1st Street / L.A., CA  90026

(marina@shakespearecenter.org) /  (213) 481-2273