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Improvising Shakespeare


Improvising Shakespeare with Andy Crouch

This Monday’s Class is CANCELLED! 

Words words words. If you’re going to improvise in the style of Shakespeare, you have to let words fall out of your mouth faster than you can think, faster than you can self-censor and faster than you can put them in the right order and not accidentally make up a few gibberish words along the way – that will get you 90% of the way to “improvised Shakespeare.” The other 10% is covered by a few tips and tricks on rhythm, rhyme, character, antique language and an over the top acting style. This workshop will cover the basics of improvising in the language and genre of Elizabethan theater, preparing you for your next Maestro scene in the style of Shakespeare, kicking up your freestyle rap game to epic levels or whetting your appetite for the next (inevitable) run of Fakespeare at the Hideout.

Andy Crouch is the Education Director at the Hideout Theatre. He fell in love with Shakespeare over the summers of 2002 and 2003 in the University of Texas’s Shakespeare at Winedale program. Andy has directed three or four improvised Shakespeare mainstage shows at the Hideout over the last decade and has also directed numerous scripted Shakespeare shows in Austin.

$30 / 7-9pm, one week only / Limited Space