Short Performances & Workshop
A 70-minute short performance followed by a 50-minute workshop in which key scenes are revisited for further analysis and interpretation. Depending on your students, short performances and workshops can focus on dramatic performance or narrative comprehension.
Do you want a powerful emotional performance or something that just helps students to follow the narrative? In the workshop would you like us to explore a range of interpretations supported by the text or focus on a specific approach that you are teaching? If you would like us to focus on a specific interpretation, we need to know this in advance and know the details of what you want conveyed.
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Oedipus The King
"Let every man in mankind's frailty consider his last day; and let none presume on his good fortune until he finds Life, at his death, a memory without pain."
After an exciting performance, the workshop will explore key questions including: "Is the tragedy that Oedipus' arrogance caused his demise?" and "Is he a good man who simply can't face a truth too horrible to bear?" If we are to learn from tragedy, we must have empathy and see how it reflects our common humanity. So maybe the answer to "what is Oedipus about", is what is in Oedipus that is uncomfortably familiar?
Unless the school wishes us to stay focused on one or the other style of reading, we will ask students to choose which style they want for the performance. Post show, the workshop examines key characters and the themes: fate, guilt, blindness, prophecy and the quest for truth and enlightenment.
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Prices
$22 per student
$2200 min booking fee
Prices do not include GST
Running Times
2 hour workshops
** For a small additional charge this program can be delivered at the Malthouse subject to availability.
*** If necessary, we can delivery this program as a 70 min short performance only for a slightly reduced price.
Romeo And Juliet
"I saw Shakespeare, it wasn't hard, and don't tell anyone but I may have even liked it." This is a verbatim quote from a student post show but the type of comment we often hear. Truely we couldn't hope for more. This performance starts out as a comic, romantic journey where we draw audiences into laughter, love and frivolity. As the tragedy unfolds, we give you the chance to feel deeply and have cause and reason to "go hence and have more talk of these sad things".
Unless guided by the school, toward specific goals, in the workshop we explore iconic readings of the play as well as how it's often perceived by young audiences. We also like to probe, how different perceptions of the play give different answers to, common essay questions like "Who is to blame?" and "Does love or hate win in this play?"
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Prices
$14.50 per student
$1450 min booking fee
Prices do not include GST
Running Times
2 hour Sessions
** For a small additional charge this program can be delivered at the Malthouse subject to availability.
*** If necessary, we can delivery this program as a 70 min short performance only for a slightly reduced price.
Macbeth
A tale of envy and jealousy, greed, ambition and an echo chamber of regret and the forces of manipulation that surround us. This performance brings the role of the witches into the foreground, as an almost ever-present force playing with their human puppets. The struggle of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are still at the center of the performance but one gets the sense that it's the supernatural and the witches' awareness of human frailty that drives the tragedy.
Unless otherwise requested by the school, our workshop focuses on different possible readings of the lead characters. Is Macbeth a good man, who is not strong enough to stand up to his wife's emasculating ambition?
If Lady Macbeth does manipulate him, given that he is a general, does it make sense if she does it with outright force? Is it possible the two are deeply in love and desperately want the other to get what they see is rightfully due?
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Prices
$14.50 per student
$1450 min booking fee
Prices do not include GST
Running Times
2 hour Sessions
** For a small additional charge this program can be delivered at the Malthouse subject to availability.
*** If necessary, we can delivery this program as a 70 min short performance only for a slightly reduced price.