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Dateline: 6th January, 2006

The Bath Shakespeare Festival has announced a unique opportunity to spend a weekend learning from and working with a diverse range of Shakespeare professionals from around the world: the Bath Shakespeare Festival Masterclass Weekend on Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th March, from 10 am to 5 pm.

The BSF Masterclass weekend will offer fifty selected applicants the chance to spend two days exploring different approaches to Shakespeare performance through a series of practical workshops. In addition, those practitioners and others will lead talks and discussions on their experiences of working with Shakespeare's plays.

Over two days, each participant will take part in six one hour practical workshops and four lectures. As well there will be opportunities for discussion of what's going on, and of course a chance to see some of the performances which will be going on as part of the Bath Shakespeare Festival.

The masterclass leaders come from an wide range of theatrical backgrounds and experiences. Some are involved with productions which are part of the festival, others will be in Bath just to be part of these masterclasses.

1. John Bell - Artistic Director Bell Shakespeare Company from Australia, whose production of the Comedy of Errors plays in the main house during the first week of the festival
2. Bruce Wall - Director London Shakespeare Workout, who have pioneered taking Shakespeare into prisons
3. Tina Packer - Artistic Director of Shakespeare and Company, the leading producing and training company working with Shakespeare in the US
4. Adrian Jackson - Artistic Director of Cardboard Citizens, a specialist company working in the UK with the Homeless, who established themselves in the public eye with an acclaimed production of Pericles where they worked with the RSC
5. The members of T.E.A.M (Theatre of the Emerging American Moment), a cutting-edge New York based company, Fringe First winners at Edinburgh in 2005, whose production of A Thousand Natural Shocks is in the Ustinov Studio during the masterclass weekend
6. Tim Crouch - writer, and actor, who will be presenting his versions of Macbeth and Midsummer Night's Dream for young people during the festival, and who has an international reputation for his theatre performances which are constantly pushing the boundaries of contemporary theatre.

The masterclass weekend is designed for recent performance graduates, aspiring performers, and experienced amateurs. The weekend is limited to fifty participants and the masterclasses will be given to groups of 25. The cost for the weekend, for the masterclasses and talks is £50. If you'd like to apply to be part of the masterclass weekend, write to

Philip Parr,
Director,
Bath Shakespeare Festival
c/o Bath Theatre Royal

giving some details of your practical experience, and the reasons why you'd like to take part in the weekend. There is no upper age limit, but applicants must be over 16.

For full details of the Bath Shakespeare Festival, see our separate page.

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