The Historical Acting Summer Academy

Attitudes, gestures and rhetorical declamation suitable for the stage will be explored in practice, using handbooks and exercises from the period. The goal is to give students tools for expressing spoken texts using appropriate historical techniques, which will in turn affect the emotional impact of their performances.

The daily group classes will focus on learning how to work effectively with original sources, so that students will be empowered to continue on their own after the course has finished.