Auditions for The Old Globe's 2010 Summer Shakespeare Intensive will be held on Saturday, March 19 and Sunday, March 20 on the Globe campus. The four week program is a unique opportunity for high school actors and actresses to refine their skills as performers in a professional setting. The Intensive will take place on weekdays, July 18 - August 15. The program cost is $600 with a limited number of need-based scholarships available. For more information, please visit www.TheOldGlobe.org/SummerIntensive.
The students will study classical theater technique, voice, movement and stage combat led by theater professionals while rehearsing for two productions of Shakespeare's plays. The program will culminate with a performance of the plays in the outdoor Lowell Davies Festival Theatre on Monday, August 15. The original Old Globe Theatre was built in 1935 for the presentation of abridged versions of Shakespeare's plays as part of the California Pacific International Exposition. This year the students will perform 50-minute versions of both The Comedy of Errors and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Throughout the Intensive, the students have the unique opportunity to study Shakespeare while observing the productions of the Globe's Shakespeare Festival, which runs concurrently with the program. Festival company members are able to lend the students insights into the art of performing Shakespeare that they then apply to their own performances of the Bard's work. Last year, while rehearsing for their sold-out production of Shakespeare's As You Like It and Twelfth Night, the students attended workshops conducted by Michael Stewart Allen, Don Carrier, Ray Chambers, Christian Durso and Adrian Sparks.Videos