In connection with Advice To The Players’ production of The Tempest that is touring to PSU on Wednesday, September 25–the company will be offering a Shakespeare and movement workshop led by Charls Sedgwick Hall*. The workshop will be in the Smith Recital Hall Wednesday 9/25 from 4:30-5:30/5:45 (dependent on number of participants).
Shakespeare On The Move is a workshop of embodying Shakespeare’s text through a series of movement exercise. Active participation in this workshop is limited to 15 students. Please RSVP to Jessie at jmchapman@plymouth.edu to get on the list. An unlimited number of observers are welcome at the workshop (no rsvp required). To participate fully in the workshop please come in with a monologue/piece of memorized Shakespeare text. If you need help selecting a Shakespeare monologue, you can contact Jessie. (If you have already taken Voice & Diction 1, you can use your monologue from that class).
After the workshop you can see Charls perform as Prospero in The Tempest. The performance starts at 7pm in the Cheney Studio Theater and attendance is free for PSU community. The performance runs under 90 minutes with no intermission.
Charls Sedwick Hall Bio: Charls is an actor, teaching artist, movement teacher, director who has worked across the country and is on the faculty at Shakespeare & Company. His association with Shakespeare & Company as a performer and student began in 1981 during which time, he toured with the Education Program and trained as a Movement teacher in the inspired discipline of Trish Arnold. Select acting credits include various with Shakespeare & Company, Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Richard III with Thin Air Shakespeare; Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing with Southern California Shakespeare Festival; A Christmas Carol, The Little Foxes, Cymbeline, Cyrano with A Noise Within; Tartuffe, Arms and The Man with The Classical Theatre Company; The Color Purple (The Musical) – Los Angeles Ovation Award winning production, and many others. Teaching engagements: Guest Professor of Movement at the National Institute of Performing Arts in Sydney, Australia, Guest Artist as a Movement Professor and Performer in Angels of Lemnos at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, Director of Training & Movement Instructor with Two Pence Theatre Company. *He is a proud member of the Actors’ Equity Association and SAG/AFTRA, holds an MFA from New York University’s School of the Performing Arts Graduate Acting Program.