06/03/2026
CALLING ALL SHAKESPEARE LOVERS!!! The Becoming Arts Collective is offering a new class: Shakespeare's Verse Text: A Practical Workshop by Brett Sullivan Santry.
There is both form and function to the verse text in Shakespeare's plays. Understanding it from a practical standpoint involves more than just following the structured pattern of iambic pentameter. Shakespeare was a poet, writing in Elizabethan blank verse meant not only for reading or reciting, but for acting. The actors for whom he was writing anticipated both the structure and the deviations from it, which conveyed performance cues.
This workshop offers a practical approach: tuning in to the rhythm, learning about how deviations reveal nuances, and identifying cues informing character relationships, self-confidence or lack thereof, and even proximity indicators — tools that are straightforward, not mystical.
Open to actors and non-actors, the session is informative and entertaining, with some ribald material. Participants receive printed materials, are encouraged to bring a pencil, and are asked to dress comfortably for movement. The goal is to understand how verse drives the text from the page to the stage.
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Dates: July 18th and 25th
Brett Sullivan Santry is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania native. He works in various roles as an actor, director, teaching artist, and dramaturg. He holds MFA and MLitt degrees from Mary Baldwin University’s Shakespeare in Performance program in association with the American Shakespeare Center, as well as a BA in Playwriting and Directing from Goddard College. Brett’s ongoing show is a newly-devised production, Lady Lord Macbeth, distilled from Shakespeare’s tragedy. Visit linktr.ee/ladylordmacbeth or find for all details.
