Shakespeare & Company When Action is Eloquence

Tina Packer, MaConnia Chesser, Natsuko Ohama, Rory Hammond, Susan Dibble, Bella Merlin, B.H. Barry, Kevin Coleman, Allyn Burroughs, Devante Owens, Jenny Jadow

eAudio - 2021

Shakespeare & Company: When Action is Eloquence is the first comprehensive insight into this internationally acclaimed company founded in 1978 in Lenox, Massachusetts, by actor-director Tina Packer and voice pioneer Kristin Linklater, with the transformative power of Shakespeare's language at its heart. Why act Shakespeare? What's his relevance in the twenty-first century? Compelling answers to these questions lie at the center of this highly accessible journey into Shakespeare & Company's aesthetics and practice. Drawing on hitherto unpublished material – including notebooks, lectures, interviews, rehearsal diaries – and the Company's newly collated archive, this book provides insight into a working theatre ...company and sheds light on the role Shakespeare plays in our modern world. It also details: Shakespeare & Company's founding and early history Its aesthetic based on the Elizabethan theatre's principles of the Art of Rhetoric; Structure of the Verse; Voice and... more