Week 1 - The Merry Wives of Windsor - 2 scenes - The Rehearsal Room

The Working Actor's Journey

🏁 In our first week, highlights include:

• Detailed analysis and debate of character motivations and intentions
• Several linguistic nuances and potential stage directions were clarified
• Discussion of whether certain actions were scripted or improvised

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🎭 CREATIVE TEAM

• DIRECTOR: J. Paul Nicholas
• DRAMATURG: Gideon Rappaport
• FALSTAFF: Todd Scofield
• MRS. PAGE: Michele Schultz
• MRS. FORD: Corinna Christman

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😮 THE SCENE

Our group will be working on two scenes where the wives plan revenge on Falstaff!

• Act 3, Scene 3 (Falstaff's first visit to Mrs. Ford), ending before Mr. Ford arrives

• Act 4, Scene 2 (Falstaff's second visit to Mrs. Ford), again ending before Mr. Ford arrives

Scenes from the Folger Shakespeare Library here and here.

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📚 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: One of our dramaturgs, Dr. Gideon Rappaport, has written three books on Shakespeare:

• Appreciating Shakespeare: https://amzn.to/3XjY6Pe
• Shakespeare’s Rhetorical Figures: An Outline: https://amzn.to/3KEzyZK
• William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Edited and Annotated: https://amzn.to/3xdt012

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