Shakespeare's Text: strong foundations in verse & meaning

Iambic penta-what? Befuddled by Shakespeare's Early Modern vocab? Join us for some practical tools to build confidence in understanding the plays and communicating their meaning.

Through extracts from A Midsummer Night's Dream and Hamlet Emma will walk you through some text analysis tips and practical exercises to help you identify:

• different literary forms in the plays (peotry/pros)
• the importance/impact of poetry/pros
• how to find meaning in challenging language
• build confidence in your choices

This 2 hour, small group workshop, will look at one play per hour. With text, context, practise & sharing (optional) you will try, explore & apply some tools that will build your knowledge and confidence towards a strong foundation in approaching Shakespeare's plays.

The workshops will take place in the Theatre at , on Shaftsbury Square, Belfast.

All you need to bring is a pen and a copy of the provided Shakespeare scripts that you can annotate.

About Emma Copland

Emma Copland is a Scottish theatre director, maker & facilitator based between London and Belfast. She trained at CSSD with Katie Mitchell, The Shakespeare Institute, Queen's University Belfast & Lyric Drama Studio with Anna Newell. An Artsdepot Resident 25/26, &TDNI INVEST 24/25 Artist she is mentored by Erica Whyman and has recently shadowed Tamara Harvey at RSC.

Her theatre credits as Director: Fuscardi’s (Druid Debuts, Mick Lally Theatre), Liz’s Story:The Right to be Heard (Black Box Belfast), Lady Macbeth Uncut (Drayton Arms), Deaf as a Post (Culturlann Belfast, Barons Court, Mac DAFNI), Slippery When Wet (Barons Court Theatre, Naughton Theatre, Bewley’s Cafe Theatre), Cooking With Carrie (Drayton Arms), Failing Better, Belmont Road (site-specific), Winter Tales (Barons Court Theatre), Faster than the Flies (Black Box Theatre), Entra, Silvio! (Ulster Hall Group Space), I Left My Heart (Hampden Park), Much Ado (Crescent Arts Centre), Two Gents (Crescent Arts Centre) and several youth theatre productions including 3 years of shows with Primary Shakespeare Company, Shady Business (Prissian Theatre), Emilia (Prissian Theatre), The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Prissian Theatre), Second Person Narrative (Prissian Theatre), Tristan & Yseult (Prissian Theatre) and The Boy Preference (JAGS Studio Theatre). Credits as an Assistant Director include: Romeo & Juliet (Lyric Belfast), Teechers (touring), The Border Game (touring), Iyalode of Eti (Arcola Theatre), Titans (Titanic Belfast), A Better Boy (MV Confiance Barge), 1 in 5 (Limavady Workhouse) and Perfect (Brian Friel Theatre).

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