The Philadelphia Artists' Collective

PAC Offers 3-Day Classical Acting Workshops

The co-founding artistic director at the Philadelphia Artists' Collective (PAC), Dan Hodge, and Krista Apple-Hodge, co-star of the company's recent production of Mary Stuart, will be leading classical acting workshops April 25–27, 2015.

PAC Classical Acting and Verse Workshop mirrors the company's practical and immersive approach to classical acting, focusing on the immediacy of language and thought and the pursuit of deep human motivation inspired directly by the text. "Whether you're a novice or professional, we'll empower you to speak—and hear—classical verse with radical practicality and emotional depth," a company e-mail says.

The curriculum includes the following:

• Basics of speech and rhetoric: Imagery, antithesis, and more;
• The rules of verse (and how to break them): How to uncover the rules of rhythm and how to exploit the exceptions;
• Text-driven character exploration: Clues to finding details in the text that reveal opinion, point of view, and objective;
• Living Language: Breathing, thinking and living on the line, the word, the sound.

The classes will be held at the Broad Street Ministry, 315 S. Broad St., from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. April 25–26 and 6–10 p.m. April 27. Cost is $175, and a $50 deposit is required. Click here to register. For more information, e-mail [email protected], call 215-551-1543, or visit www.philartistscollective.org/education.

January 26, 2015

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