ASV: SUMMER 2024 COACHING AUDITING, COST, SCHEDULE:

PERICLES: Shakespeare, was always in love with the history of Christianity--and with most of the human race--and he puts his fellings on stage. "Oh, how insipid." Not a bit. Ther heroine is captured by pirates and sold into a brothel, and the world agrees that nobody but Shakespeare could have written the brothel scenes. They were always cut in the 19th century. Victorians did immoral things, but they didn't have a sense of humor about it.

KING LEAR--LIVE!--in which the usually mild-mannered Shakespeare loses his patience with the human race and our belief that anger excuses everything and physical violence is always justified. The play is horribly relevant. I'm casting DJT as Cornwall.

This fall's cycle will consist of EIGHT classes on TUESDAYS, 7-10:30PM (end time approximate; via Zoom), organized around PERICLES and SEVEN classes on SATURDAYS, 2PM-5PM, organized around KING LEAR For the convenience of students who live on the West Coast, Tuesday's classes will be taught via the beloved ZOOM. Saturday's classes will be taught IN PERSON, LIVE, right here in Manhattan, at palatial AMDA Studios at 250 W. 54th Street. (In the summer we often need air conditioning.)

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Marina
Marina! (actually Laura Whittenberger)
lamenting being sold into a brothel.
Click on her picture. 
King Lear His daughers, Goneril and Regan visiting
their sister Cordelia in Paris
(actually it's the Supremes);		    

NB: I'm sorry to say that neither the Lennon Sisters nor the Supremes will be in the class.

Public service announcement: FOLGER which is very reliable has put the entire text of PERICLES on line at https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/pericles/read/, and the entire text of KING LEAR at https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/king-lear/read/. You can even download them to your computer (smartphone, Kindle, etc.). Only problem: these on-line edititions have no footnotes. But if you buy the Folger, you get very good footnotes.

AUDITING


You may audit any of the PERICLES Zoom classes you wish. You just have to let me know.

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COST


If you are brand-new student--that is, have never worked with me before--the cost will be $50/class, payable all at once or by the class (gasp!). If you are a former student from no matter how long ago, you will pay the old rate. If you need a special payment plan, please discuss it with me.

If you want a private session with me it costs exactly the same as a class. If you've never taken a class it costs $75.

You can mail me a check or checks to:

Deloss Brown
444 Central Park West, 5A
New York, NY 10025

IN ANY CASE, IF YOU WISH TO PARTICIPATE, YOU MUST RESERVE IN ADVANCE. PLEASE EMAIL ME delossbrown@prodigy.net or call me at (212) 865-1127. I have a special relationship with my cellphone: I hate it and it hates me.

I try to keep the class at a reasonable size, so that people can work on their monologues. I've had to extend class time by 1/2 hour to try to fit more monologues in. Last fall the class always ran over.

SCHEDULE

 PERICLES IS BEING TAUGHT VIRTUALLY, OVER THE INTERNET. THIS STARTED DURING THE PANDEMIC BUT I'M CONTINUING IT FOR THE BENEFIT OF STUDENTS WHO LIVE OUTSIDE NEW YORK CITY.
FOR KING LEAR, WE'LL MEET IN PERSON. NO BLOOD WILL BE SHED.

TUESDAY
7-10:30PM

PERICLES

via the beloved ZOOM		 SATURDAY
2-5PM

KING LEAR

LIVE!--but without
the murders at
AMDA, 250 W. 54th Street.
Jul  2 Jul 13
Jul 9 Jul 20
Jul 16 Jul 27
Jul 23 Aug  3
Jul 30 Aug 10
Aug  6 Aug 17
Aug 13 Aug 24
Aug 20 No class

The FOURTH of JULY falls on July 4th
LABOR DAY is Monday, September 2nd. We'll be done by then.


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