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Let’s Read Shakespeare

NEW! Let’s Read Shakespeare with Chris Griffin
An appreciation class for non-actors and actors alike

ShakespeareOthelloShakespeare on the Page  – A Close Reading of Shakespeare’s Othello
One of the best ways to enhance our experience of seeing a Shakespeare play is to enter the theatre equipped with a clear understanding of what the heck are they saying up there! Too often we get the general gist of a scene, but large swaths of dialogue go by as if in a foreign language:   “The  native  act  and  figure  of  my  heart/  In  compliment  extern.” Come again? This class (the first in a series) provides a chance to look closely at the language of a play, to understand how language yields up meaning and character, to see that in Shakespeare what a character  says  reveals  who  that  character  is.  After  an overview of Elizabethan theatrical conventions, we will explore Structure, Character,  Language and Imagery,  all in the context of a close reading of Shakespeare’s Othello, with special emphasis on Iago – certainly one of the most spectacularly evil characters ever conceived – and how his WORDS reveal to us who and how he IS – or is not.

Class meets Tuesday afternoons from 2:00-3:30 pm for 6 weeks
Dates: Oct. 9, 16, 23, 30, Nov. 6 and 13
Cost:  $96   (Includes Folger Shakespeare Edition of Othello)

About the Instructor:
CG Alps croppedChris Griffin is a teacher at Palm Valley School in Rancho Mirage.  He holds an M.A. in English Literature from the University of California,  Berkeley.  His  areas  of  specific  study  and  interest  include  Shakespeare,  Christopher Marlowe,  William Blake,  John Keats,  Dostoevsky  and  Oscar Wilde.  He has  also  lectured  on  leit  motifs  in opera composer Richard Wagner’s Ring  of  the  Niebelung  at Arizona Opera and at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts.  For most  of  his  adult  life  he  worked  in  the  film and  television  industry,  in  New York  and  Los Angeles – first as an Assistant Director and then as a Producer.  He produced  several  movies  for  television,  as well as three seasons of the television series Nip/Tuck. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America.

For More Information about this class please email Chris Griffin directly grffn@aol.com

To sign up for classes, please call the Box Office at 760-296-2966

Click here to enroll online

 

 

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COACHELLA VALLEY REPERTORY THEATRE
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Rancho Mirage, CA 92270
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