A&V coach Anita, a high school junior, on the Princess monologue from Loves Labours Lost. Using a technique that assigns a location to each noun and pronoun, whole worlds of questions open up and Anita’s room gets covered in a ton of stickies. There’s no better way to pull apart the grammar of Shakespeare’s text and use it as a map for the “who, what, where, when and why” of your monologue.
Loves Labours Lost: Princess - Act II, scene i

A&V coach Anita, a high school junior, on the Princess monologue from Loves Labours Lost. Using a technique that assigns a location to each noun and pronoun, whole worlds of questions open up and Anita’s room gets covered in a ton of stickies. There’s no better way to pull apart the grammar of Shakespeare’s text and use it as a map for the “who, what, where, when and why” of your monologue. Loves Labours Lost: Princess - Act II, scene i

A&amp;V coach Anita, a high school junior, on the Princess monologue from Loves Labours Lost. Using a technique that assigns a location to each noun and pronoun, whole worlds of questions open up and Anita’s room gets covered in a ton of stickies. There’s no better way to pull apart the grammar of Shakespeare’s text and use it as a map for the “who, what, where, when and why” of your monologue.
Loves Labours Lost: Princess - Act II, scene i

The Pointing Exercise

Sure we all love Shakespeare but how the heck do you DO it? 

Even the best interviewers seem to stop short when actors finally get down to the nitty gritty of technique. Just when listeners are about to discover the gold of HOW performers and directors approach the real work of Shakespeare’s text, the interview veers off. 

Victoria and Amanda wanted to create something they couldn’t find: a podcast devoted to sharing techniques through live coaching sessions so actors, educators, directors and Shakespeare fans can build an arsenal of tools to draw upon for their own work.

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Sure we all love Shakespeare but how the heck do you DO it? Even the best interviewers seem to stop short when actors finally get down to the nitty gritty of technique. Just when listeners are about to discover the gold of HOW performers and directors approach the real work of Shakespeare’s text, the interview veers off. Victoria and Amanda wanted to create something they couldn’t find: a podcast devoted to sharing techniques through live coaching sessions so actors, educators, directors and Shakespeare fans can build an arsenal of tools to draw upon for their own work.

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The Pointing Exercise

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