Speak The Speech

Instructor: Melon Wedick

Saturdays, 10:30am-12:30pm

September 25-October 30

Proof of Vaccination Required / Course Taught Outdoors

Course Description: 

Join local actor & director Melon Wedick for a six-week deep dive into fundamental techniques for speaking Shakespeare’s text with clarity and precision. Ever get the sense your audience isn't *totally* following along? Getting compliments on the number of lines you learned instead of your acting choices? Put an end to that by making sure your audience can understand every word you say! (Really!) This course will focus on the essential pre-work that frees an actor for spontaneous and creative performance: reading, understanding, breaking down, analyzing, memorizing, and speaking the text prior to acting. Never be given a line reading again! Students will prepare monologues for presentation in a showcase at the end of the course.

Bio for the Instructor: Melon Wedick studied theatre (and philosophy!) at Oberlin College. She studied Shakespeare performance with Paul Moser and Hal Ryder, and was a founding member of the Certain Players (Randolph, VT) and founding co-director of the Greenville Shakespeare Festival (Greenville, NH). She has performed with the Certain Players, Greenville Shakespeare Festival (NH), Black River Theatre Company, Shakespeare NYC, and the Montford Park Players, among others, and has directed productions of Hamlet, Measure for Measure, and Coriolanus. Now the artistic director of Nemesis Theatre Company, Melon is passionate about clarity and comprehension in Shakespeare performance.