Performing Shakespeare's Twelfth Night - With Gareth Kennerley

Performing Shakespeare's Twelfth Night - With Gareth Kennerley

A purchased ticket is for an 8 session course. Participants must be able to make the majority of sessions.

Dates and times: Sundays 2-5pm

1. 29th September
2. 6th October
3. 27th October
4. 3rd November
5. 10th November
6. 17th November
7. 24th November
8. 1st December

*Please note there are no sessions on 13th or 20th October - these will be learning weeks.

Location: Golden Lane Community Centre

Join us for 8 Sundays of laughter, love, and mistaken identities as we explore Shakespeare's Twelfth Night with the talented Gareth Kennerley. Get ready to immerse yourself in the enchanting story of Viola, Duke Orsino, Malvolio and Olivia in this classic comedy, and develop the skills to tackle the verse and bring the strory to life in performance. These in-person classes promise to be memorable, challenging and fun and in our final session we will share excerpts of the play in a performance presentation to an invited audience of family and friends in an afternoon filled with witty, accomplished and unforgettable performances. Don't miss out on this opportunity to get to grips with the magic of Shakespearean comedy in performance and to hone your acting skills.

The course will refresh techniques for approaching verse over the 8 weeks and spend time digging down into the text so all participants are clear on the story and understand the particualar language of the piece.

Leading from intellectual understanding to clarity of delivery to the nuance of expressive performance the course is open to all levels of experience but is perhaps best suited to particiapnts who already have some experience of working with Shakespearean verse.

Sections of the play will be allocated for performance and then coached and directed by Gareth - rehearsing to a final presentation that will 'frame' the piece with narration and share various speeches and scenes with an audience.

Feel free to sign up at patreon.com/gazken at the £5 tier or above to gain acess to a discounted ticket price.

Gareth Kennerley has 20 years experience as a professional performer on stage, screen and radio. He has worked in theatre in the West End, at the National Theatre, The Donmar Warehouse and The Almeida among many others across the country, on screen for ITV, Amazon and others and on Radio for BBC RADIO 4. His most recent Shakespearan work includes 2 productions A Midsummer Night's Dream at Kew Gardens; acclaimed productions of Macbeth directed by Yael Farber for the Almeida and Othello directed at the National by Clint Dyer - where he had the opportunity to play Montano but also to cover Iago; he has just finished a 3 week developmental workshop with Sinead Rushe working towards an innovative reimagining of Hamlet.

As a teacher Gareth has, among a varied range of experience, previously run his own performance and training company (through which he has directed/written/devised upward of 20 shows), coached LAMDA, voice, confidence, audition technique and reprtoire building on a one to one basis as well as having taught as a visiting practitioner at the Guildford Schooll of acting and other school and university settings. His teaching method is friendly and personal but always with the goal of stretching the student so that they become unafraid of being extraordinary.

'I've had the pleasure of working with Gareth Kennerley on a classical piece of text.

His process is very practical, precise, insightful and HONEST, which suited me perfectly.'

Remigiusz Rachuba – Actor (1-1 Acting Coaching Student)

'Gareth was fantastic to work with and get advice from. He brought out the best in me as an actor by making me really think about the texts we were looking at. After a few months’ work focusing on audition monologues, sight-reading and singing, I won places at the Central School of Speech and Drama and LAMDA. I couldn't have done it without his first-hand knowledge of the industry and how actors are working today; his sense of fun, his openness and his work ethic.'

Samuel Jenkins-Shaw - Actor (1-1 Acting Coaching Student)

I couldn't have dreamt of a better introduction to the world of acting.... It was fun, beautifully paced and inspiring. The format was great but the magic was for me in Gareth's ability to get us to feel totally comfortable in the group. It really made all the difference when it came to acting.

Clyde Ancarno – Former Training Company Member

Host or Publisher Gareth Kennerley