CoF’s new Producing Artistic Director, Scott Palmer, has more than 20 years’ experience with classical text, heightened language, and Shakespearean verse. In this workshop, participants will be asked to analyze 20 lines of Shakespearean iambic pentameter to mine the Bard’s verse for hints, clues, and explosive insights into how to perform Shakespeare.
All participants must have a minimum 20 line Shakespearean speech memorized.

Palmer will use his “10 Approaches To Verse” system, which involves learning about scansion, literary and poetic devices, and academic literary analysis to explore how heightened language text can be transformed by the actor in performance.