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Dearest Talented Loved Ones,

Happy Fall everyone! We are sincerely hoping to see many of you in these upcoming classes!  We'd  also genuinely appreciate your help in spreading the word about our classes by forwarding this class menu to all of your cool actor pals!!  Offerings this session are the LAST CLASSES OF THE YEAR!  

Please find below our class offerings for November and December 2018 ! We are offering Beginning and Intermediate Monologue classes , and Back-To-Basics Scene Study class ( last offering of the YEAR for Scene Study by the way!!)

The "One-Play-Focus"  pick for November/December is......ROMEO AND JULIET!!!! That’s right advanced students! Just the greatest love story ever told! We did our first exploration of this play several years ago, and everybody absolutely loved it! It’s one thing to think you know this story, it’s another to live through it by actually doing it! So, advanced students, please check your calendars and come join us on our dazzling journey to Verona!! 

We will look forward to seeing many of you soon!     

 Huge Love and Gratitude  ....always...

 Susan and Jeffrey

 

 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018

Here we go!
 

TO REGISTER, PLEASE RESPOND TO: carlsonandhart@gmail.com. an $80.00 non-refundable, non-transferable deposit is required within 7 days after you register, or we cannot insure that your reservation is secure. This deposit is applied to the class fee. We prefer online payment for deposits,  and have Venmo, Chase Quick Pay, Bank of America online  transfer, as well as the new Zelle option( which many banks now use for bank-to-bank transfers!) Just let Susan know which method you prefer,  and she will send you instructions for online payment of deposit ).  Also, if you need to mail a check, let Susan know and she'll send her mailing address to you!  If necessary, due to finances, you may pay half of the balance at the FIRST CLASS and then the remainder at the THIRD CLASS. This payment plan is available ONLY if you let SUSAN know UPON REGISTRATION.If you email to register, you should receive a response within a few days. The majority of classes are held in Andersonville on Chicago’s north side. Specific locations are TBD.

 
AVAILABLE CLASSES
 
BEGINNING MONOLOGUE
($340.00)
(Class Limit 8 people)

A prerequisite to all other courses, this five week course will introduce you to the Folio Technique (the foundation of Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, where Susan has done 15 shows and Jeffrey played Prince Hal in Henry IV, parts 1&2, and the title role in Marlowe's Edward II).  In addition, we go well beyond that technique, as we have hugely expanded our vocabulary on teaching great Shakespeare over the years! Jeffrey Carlson has a Juilliard education where, among the brilliant faculty, he was fortunate enough to study with "Shakespeare Greats" Michael Kahn and Barry Edelstein. So we use the basics of Folio technique, with many  more delicious technique approaches as well.

 

As a result, our students not only receive "First Folio Training", but many helpful tools in approaching Shakespeare's text (i.e. clarity, word-choice, poetic devices, and - most importantly - a truthful, honest connection to the characters one thought at a time).  The goal is, of course to eventually let your character be a living, breathing human being who just happens to speak beautifully! You will promptly get to work on your very own Shakespeare verse monologue to apply technique. Every student receives a great deal of individual attention and if you feel, in any way, over your head with the Bard as a professional actor…This class is for you.

 
 
ONE session offered:
 
MONDAY EVENINGS
6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
November 5th - December 10th
(skipping November 19th for Thanksgiving week!)

 
 
  INTERMEDIATE MONOLOGUE (Back To Basics)

 
($340.00)
(Class limit 10 people)

 
Prerequisite: One must have taken Beginning Monologue to take this course.

This is a five week course, taking you to the next level of verse speaking technique. The Book Thinking Shakespeare by Barry Edelstein will be required reading for this course. Mr. Edelstein is the Artistic Director of the Old Globe in San Diego, and a former faculty member (and Jeffrey’s teacher) at the Juilliard School.  T THE NEW PRINTING is available NOW and we are thrilled to have it  once again available for your education! Its a great, fun read!! !Available at Target.com and on Amazon!! The knowledge in the book and this course is almost certain to clarify any issues you may still have regarding verse speaking technique. Mr. Edelstein’s book forces the actor to ask the question "WHY?" constantly, and has proved an invaluable tool to us and our students. You will then apply your new knowledge to a brand new monologue chosen by your instructors as a contrasting piece to your first from Beginning Class!



ONE session offered:
 

WEDNESDAY EVENINGS
6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
November 14th - December 19th
(skipping November 21st for Thanksgiving week)

 

SCENE STUDY (Back to Basics)
(340.00)
(Class limit 10 people)

 

Prerequisite: Students must have taken Beginning Monologue and Intermediate Monologue (Back to Basics). This is a five week course in which we further apply the wonderful tools from THINKING SHAKESPEARE.  The scenes we will explore will, predominantly, be two person scenes.   This will require rehearsing outside of class with your scene partner.  You will be faced with new challenges beyond monologue class like shared lines, short lines, and a super fun part – LISTENING!! – What a novel concept – and you will genuinely be interacting with another human being using Shakespeare’s amazing language.

 

ONE session offered:

 Thursday Evenings
6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
November 1st - December 6th 
(skipping November 22nd for Thanksgiving Day!)

 


ONE PLAY FOCUS SCENE STUDY
($380.00)
 Prerequisite: Student MUST have taken Beginning Monologue, Intermediate Monologue and B2B Scene Study classes. Teacher approval required.
This is a 6 week class which explores an individual Shakespeare play in depth, by choosing key scenes involving the major characters. Each actor will have a scene in which he/she plays a larger role, and may be asked to play small roles in other scenes if needed. Sometimes this involves gender-bending, which is AWESOME! It’s a joy to work as a team and explore some of the wonderful puzzles these plays provide as the characters head on in their journeys. The responses to these classes have been tremendous.              
Serious students only please.  These classes are a lot of work and require discipline.
 
 
ONE session offered:

SUNDAY EVENINGS
6:00 p.m. – 10: 00 p.m.

November 4th – December 16th
(skipping November 25th for Thanksgiving Day weekend!)
Location: The Den and Edge Theatres



Romeo and Juliet 

 A glooming peace this morning with it brings.
The sun for sorrow will not show his head.
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things.
Some shall be pardoned and some punished,
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
 

Honestly getting goosebumps just typing this infamous quote!  The most famous lovers' tragedy of all time, the one Shakespeare play that most of our families are at least familiar with (LOL!).....ROMEO AND JULIET is quite simply a masterpiece!  We are just thrilled to once again explore this play in our "One-Play-Focus" series!!! As bias and hatred continue to rear their ugly heads in the news EVERY day, and throughout history in every corner of the globe, what's NOT to relate to in this play?? The reason for the hatred between the Montagues and Capulets is, brilliantly, never discussed in the play itself. Shakespeare asks us to accept the hatred, as hatred itself, with no explanation at all. In our modern world, the news is brimming with such stories. When Jeffrey played Romeo at  the McCarter, his director, Emily Mann, brought in a photo of a Palestinian woman holding the body of her young dead son, accompanied with the quote" I'd give up 7 more for the cause"  Hatred was as palpable in Shakespeare's day as it is today, and this beautiful play touches the hearts of all who encounter it with profound resonance. It is truly an honor for us to again dig in to this play in class with such talented folks as you !  (As mentioned earlier, we have each huge soft spots for this play, each having been in it 3 times!!  More stories about that at class!)

So, come explore the greatest love story ever told, and intimately get to know Juliet (the magnificent girl who suffers the agonizing  journey from sheltered only child, to a courageous young woman in a very, very short time); Romeo (the  passionate innocent who cares so deeply about people he loves, that it turns out to be his undoing) ; Juliet's well-meaning but ultimately misguided parents, Lord and Lady Capulet; Juliet's feisty, bawdy," heart-of-gold" Nurse; Romeo's trusted companion, the peace-loving, level headed Benvolio;  the less level headed, but brilliant Mercutio; the fiery, HOT headed Tybalt;  and one of the most intriguing characters in the play, dear Friar Laurence, who unwittingly propels the tragedy forward through a series of well-meant actions. We'll also have a blast with the smaller characters...the Montague parents, Peter, Paris, the Prince and more! 


 It’s one thing to have read, or seen this play, but quite another to live through it!  Most of you will wind up being in this play at some point in your careers, so ,even though you think you know it well, why not get to know it more intimately in class? 

 We can barely contain our excitement at the prospect of this class. Please join us! 



     







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