21/12/2025
We are so excited to announce our new Masterclass series that will run between club terms, offering something different to what we usually do! Exclusive to anyone who has been a member of Director’s Cut, so you’ll be amongst friends! This winter we have the brilliant Scott Brooksbank who will be running ‘Unlocking Shakespeare’. Workshops will be on Wednesday evenings 7-9pm on the 14th, 21st, 28th Jan and 3th Feb.
Workshop description:
These sessions will focus on unlocking the magic and treasures of Shakespeare’s verse. For actors, we will explore how we can harness its power and ‘surf’ the text, enabling us to speak it in a way that makes more sense, makes us more present on stage, and sound more human. The sessions will be active and fun, with lots of play. We will progress from working generally to focusing on specific scenes, and the aim is to make the learning cumulative over the course of the four classes. For writers, we’ll be exploring the form and structure of the language and how it can help and feed into the rhythm and flow of the actor’s performance; and for directors, the sessions will give insight into how to unlock classical texts for actors.
About your workshop leader:
Scott trained at Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where he recently returned as a project director. He also teaches and directs for Rose Bruford, Fourth Monkey, Central, LAMDA and Drama Studio London. He is a practitioner for the Creative Learning team at the RSC, and a workshop leader and storyteller for the Education Department at Shakespeare’s Globe.
He is a leading member and Associate Director of experimental theatre company The Factory, with whom he has played Cymbeline, The Tempest, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, The Odyssey, Hamlet, The Seagull, Round Two, As You Like it, Cymbeline, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Pericles, Timon of Athens, Troilus & Cressida, Love’s Labour’s Lost, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night and Measure for Measure.
More info and to apply go here: https://www.directorscuttheatre.co.uk/masterclass/diving-into-shakespeare-with-scott-brooksbank
We hope to see you there!
