American Voices
CSC's script-in-hand reading series of American classics. The 2010-2011 series featured Anthony Rapp and Jim True-Frost as guest directors alongside CSC Artistic Director Steven Maler, and starred celebrated stage and screen actors Chris Cooper, Jason Butler Harner and Jeffrey Donovan.
Shakespeare and the Law
Presented each season in partnership with the Boston Lawyers Chapter of the Federalists Society and McCarter & English. Shakespeare & the Law features a staged reading of a Shakespeare play (past performances include Othello, The Merchant of Venice and Henry V) performed by local, state and national lawyers, judges and other politicos. The presentation is followed by a panel discussion lead by a moderator.
Tour of the Parks
CSC's touring initiative to local parks. The 2011 summer season features two productions: Shakespeare on Love, a collection of scenes, songs and sonnets from Shakespeare performed by Apprentices enrolled in Summer Apprentice Program, and A Shakespearean Cabaret featuring students from New England Conservatory.
Shakespeare on the Common
A Boston tradition since 1996, CSC has been presenting fully-staged productions of Shakespeare plays free-of-charge to Boston audiences.
Commonwealth Concerts
Sponsored by New England Conservatory, Commonwealth Concerts is a series of pre-show concerts featuring a wide range of musical stylings before performances of Shakespeare on the Common.
Events
Special events--including our Annual Gala--held throughout the year to raise funds to support all of CSC's FREE programming.
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May 24, 2012
New in 2012! Shakespeare & Leadership
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When:
May 24, 2012 6pm
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Venue:
Cutler Majestic Theater, 219 Tremont Street, Boston
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Need to know:
Performance and discussion will be approximately 2 hours long.
Event is FREE and open to the public.
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July 25 - August 12, 2012
CORIOLANUS
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When:
Tuesdays-Saturdays, 8pm; Sundays 7pm; 2 hours and 45 minutes
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Venue:
Parkmand Bandstand @ Boston Common
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Need to know:
There are NO performances on MONDAYS.
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Matinee: July 28th @ 2pm
ASL Performance:
August 11th
For information about chair rentals and reservations, visit the Support US section.
Visit the FAQ page to answer all your questions about attending Shakespeare on the Common.
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Words, Words, Words... An Actor's Journey: Weeks 6 & 7
Monday, August 15, 2011
Weeks 6 & 7 (CSC Apprenticeship)
Hello all! My apologies for the hiatus. It's been such a wonderfully busy four weeks since I last posted! We just closed a very successful run of All's Well That Ends Well on the Boston Common, and the Apprenticeship is coming to an end next week. But more of that with upcoming posts; on to catching up with what's been going on.
Week six began and we are CLOWNING! Antonio was our instructor for the workshop, and worked tirelessly with us to bring out our inner joy and encourage us to, well, fail. Failure, we learned, is one of the elements that makes a clown funny. We played Master/Servant, an exercise in which there is a clown with power, and a more submissive clown. We discussed the role of power and how it can effect scenes and any approach to a character. We endowed a rolled up newspaper baton with the power of the Master, so whoever held the baton, held the power. We at first improvised gibberish dialogue, then moved to actual dialogue, and finally incorporated the relationship struggle into our scenes for Shakespeare on Love. The week of clowning really opened me up to the art of failure. The clown is putting everything into their objective and we all found that the laughter thrived when the clown accepted the failure or impossibility of being funny onstage and lived in it. Antonio taught us how important it was for us to enjoy the laughter we bring to the audience, as we enjoy the thrill and happiness to being onstage.
In week seven, I was EXTREMELY pleased that we would be spending it working with Noah Tuleja from my home-state of RI! We worked only on hand-to-hand combat, and it was wonderful to get back into it. I am not sure if I have mentioned this before on my blog, but I have a deep love for stage combat; the choreography, the thrill of making an audience gasp in suspense, it's just incredible to me. Noah was fantastic! It was clear that he enjoys the work and also that safety was his first priority. With work on stage fighting, often times the adrenaline kicks in and the choreography can quickly become dangerous if it goes to quickly or is not precise. Noah was great about explaining and showing clearly the steps and the movements that make a fight onstage look believable to the audience. He showed us the basic punches: cross, jab, uppercut, and some slaps, chokes, and kicks. We got to pick our scenes and create our own moves after Noah gave us the first few beats. It was exciting and opened me up to the possibility of becoming a stage combat choreographer someday.
Stay tuned for weeks eight, nine and ten as well as an All's Well post. I've got to get ready for week ten!
All the best,
Micah
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