British Shakespeare Association Biennial Conference 2005
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Workshop - It is as difficult as Golf: A workshop on Shakespearean
Verse Speaking
Friday 2nd September 2005, 11.00am-12.30pm,
Bedson Teaching Centre G37
with Abigail Rokison and actors James Wallace and Sarah Tansey
Abigail Rokison trained as an actress at LAMDA. She worked extensively in television and theatre, including playing a number of Shakespearean roles. Abigail is now writing a PhD thesis on 'Shakespearean Verse Speaking' at Cambridge University.
In this workshop Abigail will work with three professional actors: James Wallace (most recently seen as in Steven Unwin's English Touring Theatre's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead) and Sarah Tansey (whose roles include Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre) exploring theories and practice relating to the function of metre and lineation in Shakespeare's drama. Abigail's work is based on research undertaken into Modern and Renaissance Theatre practice and the interaction between the actor and the edited text.
James Wallace
Theatre includes: Vermilion Dream (Salisbury); The Way of the World (Wilton’s
Music Hall); Something Cloudy, Something Clear (Finborough); A&R (Latchmere);
Dead Funny, The Whisperers and The School for Scandal (all Rough Magic); Henry
IV Parts I and II (RSC); Lady Windermere’s Fan (Chichester); The Merchant
of Venice (Lyceum, Edinburgh); Northanger Abbey (Greenwich); Tartuffe (Almeida);
Hamlet (Hackney Empire and Broadway); Waiting for Godot (Italian tour).
Television includes: Margaret, The Bill, The Alan Clark Diaries, Pie in the
Sky, Between the Lines, The Prince, Out of Darkness.
Sarah Tansey
Theatre includes: Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Arms and the Man (Stoke), Ghosts
(West End), Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Ursula in Much Ado About
Nothing (Regent's Park), Lady Anne in Richard III (Colchester), A Doll's House
(West Yorkshire Playhouse), The Rivals (Exeter), A season at the Orange Tree
Theatre.
Television includes: Far From the Madding Crowd, Heartbeat
