ASV: FALL 2019 SCHEDULE

This summer's cycle will consist of EIGHT classes on Tuesdays or Thursdays organized around THE WINTER'S TALE (Tuesdays) or OTHELLO (Thursdays).

The FREE sample classes on HAMLET will be given at Shetler Studios, 244 W. 54th Street, on Tuesday, September 24nd in room 1200 and Thursday, September 26th, in room 1204, in the 12rh floor. If you have a monologue you want to work on, please bring it in. I'll have some Shakespeare monologues available. PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND EITHER OR BOTH OF THE FREE CLASSES SO THAT I CAN KEEP YOU INFORMED, AND MAKE ENOUGH HANDOUTS. Hamlet's schedule may change; he's helping his uncle paint Elsinore.

TUESDAY, SEP 24
4-7PM

FREE SAMPLE CLASS
HAMLET

Shetler ROOM 1200
THURSDAY, SEP 26
4-7PM

FREE SAMPLE CLASS
HAMLET

Shetler ROOM 1204
4-5:30PM Verse work: HAMLET
5:30-7PM Monologues
4-5:30PM Verse work: HAMLET
5:30-7PM Monologues

The regular cycle of eight (8) classes will be held at my palatial studio, 444 Central Park West, cross street 104th, B & C trains stop at 103rd. If you are brand-new student--that is, have never worked with me before--the cost will be $50/class. If you are a former student from no matter how long ago, you will pay the old rate.

TUESDAY: THE WINTER'S TALE: do not, I beg you, mistake this for a minor work. Shakespeare was at work on it at the same time as he was working on THE TEMPEST. In the latter play he summed up his view of the world and his own life; in THE WINTER'S TALE he summed up what he had done in the theater, sometimes using materials he had dealt with before, and then proceeded to top it. When he had finished the two plays mentioned he retired, worn out at the age of 48 (he died at 52).

THURSDAY: OTHELLO: you will be amazed at the events, ideas, emotions, sources and scenes put into this play. Yes, it's a terrible and frightening tragedy: Othello and Desdemona love each other, and though they should live happily ever after--well, you know what happens. Satan himself has a hand in it--but the tragedy is a result of human failings. Satan merely helps us along.

TUESDAY
7-10PM

THE WINTER'S TALE

444 CPW (see above)
THURSDAY
7-10PM

OTHELLO

444 CPW (see above)
Oct 1 Oct 3
YOM KIPPUR
NO CLASS
Oct 10
Make-up session at 6PM
Oct 15 Oct 17
Oct 22 Oct 24
Oct 29 Oct 31
Nov 5 Nov 7
Nov 12 Nov 14
Nov 19 Nov 21
Nov 26 NO CLASS--
TURKEY

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