COD 2018 - S610

The play's the thing! Reading, watching and performing Shakespeare's Macbeth (IGCSE 2018 - 2019)

IGCSE Literature teachers and anyone who enjoys Shakespeare

1 sesiones, inicia: 10-Abr

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Ciclo: 2018
Nivel: Secundaria
Idioma: Inglés
Estado: Terminado
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Capacitador/es: James Murray, Claudia Ferradas PhD
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1 10 Abril 2018 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Capacitador/es

James Murray

Studied acting in Buenos Aires with María Rivera, Inés Pascual, Carlos Gandolfo & Augusto Fernándes. In New York with Uta Hagen at the HB Studio & Penny Allen thanks to a scholarship from Robert De Niro. Winner of the British Council – Fondo Nacional de las Artes scholarship in Theatre, he took a post - graduate course in Classical acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He has acted in cinema under the direction of Sergio Renan, Oscar Barney Finn, Eliseo Subiela, amongst others. In television he is remembered for his role as the Yanki from Oklahoma that claimed his portion of the foreign debt from legendary Tato Bores. Co founder of the Actor Repertory Theatre at the British Arts Centre performing and directing in plays in English with Spanish subtitles. Including Shakespeare, Wilde, Pinter, Ayckbourn & Ibsen. Directed for Romay Producciones the musical JAZZ SWING TAP winning 13 prizes. He co directed RENT at Ciudad Cultural Konex. For The Suburban Players he directed and played Professor Higgins in MY FAIR LADY for their 50th anniversary. In 2016 he adapted and directed A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM in Spanish at the Teatro de La Comedia. He has lectured and done workshops on Drama in education around Latin America, Kel Ediciones, ESSARP and the British Arts Centre upon the visit of HRH Prince Charles. At present he is Coordinator of the Drama department at St Luke’s College and gives classes on acting and directing at the Universidad de Palermo.

Claudia Ferradas

Dr. Claudia Ferradas is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she got her first degree as a teacher of English at the Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”. She holds an MA in Education and Professional Development from the University of East Anglia and a PhD in English Studies from the University of Nottingham, UK. She is an experienced presenter and ELT author who travels the world as a teacher educator. She often works as a consultant for the British Council and Trinity College London. She is also a presenter for Oxford University Press and is an Oxford Teachers’ Academy Trainer.
In Argentina, she has taught language and literature at the Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”, Buenos Aires, where she was also “Regente del nivel superior”. She teaches on the MA programme in Literatures in English at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza. She coordinates the literature and cultural programmes at ESSARP.
In the UK, Claudia has been a Visiting Fellow and research supervisor at the School of Languages, Leeds Metropolitan University, and is now a member of the NILE (Norwich Institute for Language Education) Advisory Board and the Extensive Reading Foundation committee.
Claudia has co-chaired the Oxford Conference on the Teaching of Literature on five occasions and has also worked as Project Manager for the Penguin Active Readers Teacher Support Programme. She has also taught on the MA programme in TEFL at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
She is a member of the editorial committee of several journals: AJAL (Argentine Journal of Applied Linguistics); Revista Interdisciplinar de Formación Docente Kimün (Instituto de Formación Docente Continua, San Luis, Argentina); Conexión, Revista de Investigaciones y Propuestas Educativas (Instituto de Educación Superior N° 28 “Olga Cossettini”, Rosario, Argentina) and CLELE Journal (Children’s Literature in English Language Education).
IGCSE Literature teachers and anyone who enjoys Shakespeare
• to present ways in which students can approach the play to respond to it and enjoy it as they prepare for IGCSE
• to provide classroom activities that promote critical and analytical thinking skills
• to link the reading and study of the play to the way actors work on the text to perform it
• to provide materials to help frame students’ visit to the theatre if they decide to see the play at the Metropolitan Sura 2 Theatre as from May 8
• to consider ways in which film can interpret gaps and ambiguities in the text
- The importance of the context of production to understand the play
- Shakespeare’s poetry and its implications for acting
- Key soliloquies
- Shakespeare in performance
- Drama activities for the classroom
- Textual ambiguity in Juston Kurzel’s 2015 film version
• Key speeches will be analysed and discussed from different perspectives
• Participants will experience drama activities which they can implement with students
• James Murray, director of the play at the Metropolitan Sura 2, will discuss aspects of acting which can help students and teachers understand the play
- BEJA, M. (1976). Film and Literature. New York: Longman.
- BLOOM, H. (1998). Shakespeare: the invention of the human. New York: Riverhead Books
- BURT, R. (1998). Unspeakable Shakespeares. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
- ------------- (ed.) (2002). Shakespeare After Mass Media. New York: Palgrave.
- DICK, B. (2002). Anatomy of Film. Boston & New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s.
- KURZELl, J. (dir.) (2015). Macbeth. UK and France: Anton Capital Entertainment, Creative Scotland, DMC Film, Film4, See-Saw Films
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