I am currently working with internationally recognised writer/director George Rodosthenous to develop a series of masterclasses that involve an academic and performance perspective to the staging and characterisation of Euripides' Orestes. These will be open to the public and/or intended for the cast of George's new production of Euripides' Orestes (March 2011, world premiere at http://www.stage.leeds.ac.uk/).
I am happy to develop and deliver workshops on request to university and school and other arts groups in the UK. Please contact me (e.r.okell) on my university email (@leeds.ac.uk) to discuss your needs.
Previous workshops have included:
Aeschylus' Oresteia (staging issues and realising the Agamemnon's choral parodos- as a revision session for undergraduates at Leeds University)
Euripides' Trojan Women (staging to bring out literary critical perspectives - part of my teaching at Manchester and Durham universities)
Sophocles' Ajax (for sixth formers, designed and led jointly with Musical Theatre at Leeds University: working on the choral parodos from characterisation - physical and vocal - to use of space, to sung performance)
Phaedra and Hippolytus: Euripides, Seneca, Racine (changing staging conventions and stage directions within the script - part of my MA teaching at Durham University)
Dramatic Monologues (techniques for keeping the audience's interest during long speeches: Greek tragic messenger speeches and Shakespearean monologues, e.g. Titania's weather speech, Mercutio's Queen Mab speech, for student drama groups at Manchester University)
