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Saturday/Sunday 5-6 March	Saturday / Sunday 5-6 March SIMON BELL Artistic Director CAMBRIDGE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL SHAKESPEARE WEEKEND Shakespeare's Women
	A practical workshop experimenting with different approaches to playing several of the great female Shakespeare roles. A choice of specific monologues, duologues and scenes will be provided.
	Applications: Open to any professional actor
	Maximum Places: 12 COST: £60 (weekend), £35 (day), Observers: £12

	SPECIAL MASTERCLASS
	INTERNATIONAL Theatre Director ADRIAN NOBLE SHAKESPEARE MASTERCLASS FOR ACTORS	One of the theatre’s most respected and sought-after directors, Adrian Noble's career has taken him around the world directing both opera and theatre. He spent 13 years as artistic director of The Royal Shakespeare Company (1990-2003) and has received 120 Olivier Award nominations. Noble's recent productions include Carmen at Opéra Comique in Paris (June 2009), his universally acclaimed production of Hamlet at Canada's Stratford Festival (2008), Verdi's Macbeth at The Metropolitan Opera (2007) and the West End productions of the musicals Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and The Secret Garden. He will also be directing Don Giovanni for Opera de Lyon and Alcina for the Vienna State Opera in upcoming seasons.
Thursday 11 March 10.30am - 2.30pm	Participants £75 Competitive Selection Equity Members or equivalent professional experience.
	STRICTLY LIMITED PARTICIPANTS Some observer places available
	APPLICATIONS Suitably experienced actors wishing to apply who are also participating in Simon Bell’s 6/7 March Shakespeare Intensive will be offered places preferentially (see below). Remaining places will be offered through audition or through agents.	In July 2010, Noble takes up the post of Artistic Director of the Old Globe's Shakespeare Festival in San Diego, USA, where he will oversee the Festival and direct three of its productions..
	Audition Dates:- Tuesday 2 March, 6.30pm - 10pm Wednesday 3 March, 2pm - 5pm Sunday 7 March, 6.30pm - 10pm Monday 8 March, 2pm-5pm
	Auditions Please be prepared to present two speeches:- - a Shakespeare monologue - a contrasting contemporary piece.
	Please submit your CV and headshot to ats@theredhedgehog.co.uk. Clare Fischer Artistic Director 07817 109093






	SPECIAL MASTERCLASS
Thursday 18 February 2pm - 4pm	MAX STAFFORD-CLARK Artistic Director Out of Joint Theatre Company
PREPARATION OF TEXT	A practical workshop in the working methods of MAX STAFFORD-CLARK A general workshop on text preparation in rehearsal, as developed and practised over decades by the distinguished theatre director Max Stafford Clark. A practical review of the working methods will culminate with work on a specific scene from a recent play by Out of Joint.
	COST £35
	PARTICIPANTS Equity Members - or equivalent relevant professional experience DIRECTORS - 4 observer places available Scripts - will be provided
	LOCATION This workshop will be held at the premises of OUT OF JOINT for which directions will be provided separately. NB - bookings taken only c/o The Red Hedgehog.
Founded Joint Stock Theatre group in 1974 following his Artistic Directorship of The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. From 1979 to 1993 he was Artistic Director of The Royal Court Theatre. In 1993 he founded the touring company, Out of Joint. His work as a Director has overwhelmingly been with new writing, and he has commissioned and directed first productions by many of the country's leading writers. For Out of Joint these have been The Queen and I by Sue Townsend, The Libertine by Stephen Jeffreys, The Break of Day by Timberlake Wertenbaker, The Steward of Christendom by Sebastian Barry, The Positive Hour by April de Angelis, Shopping and Fucking by Mark Ravenhill, Blue Heart by Caryl Churchill, Our Lady of Sligo by Sebastian Barry, Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker, Drummers by Simon Bennett, Some Explicit Polaroids by Mark Ravenhill, a double bill of Rita, Sue and Bob Too by Andrea Dunbar and A State Affair by Robin Soans, Feelgood by Alistair Beaton, Sliding with Suzanne by Judy Upton, Hinterland by Sebastian Barry, A Laughing Matter by April De Angelis, Duck by Stella Feehily, The Permanent Way by David Hare, a site-specific, Africa-set production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Talking to Terrorists by Robin Soans, O go my Man by Stella Feehily, The Overwhelming by JT Rogers (National Theatre in association with Out of Joint), King of Hearts by Alistair Beaton, The Convict's Opera by Stephen Jeffreys, Dreams of Violence by Stella Feehily and Mixed Up North by Robin Soans. New writing directed for Joint Stock includes Fanshen, The Speakers (both with William Gaskill), Light Shining In Buckinghamshire and Cloud Nine. For The Royal Court: The Arbor, Operation Bad Apple, Top Girls, Rita Sue And Bob Too, Falkland Sound, Tom And Viv, Rat In The Skull, Aunt Dan And Lemon, Serious Money, Our Country's Good, Icecream, My Heart's A Suitcase, Hush and Three Birds Alighting On A Field. In addition he has directed The Seagull, The Pope's Wedding, The Recruiting Officer and King Lear for the Royal Court; A Jovial Crew;The Wives' Excuse and The Country Wife for The Royal Shakespeare Company; and Road, The Man of Mode, She Stoops to Conquer, Three Sisters and Macbeth for Out of Joint. He directed David Hare’s The Breath of Life for Sydney Theatre Company in 2003. He has also directed for The Abbey Theatre, Dublin and Joseph Papp's Public Theatre, New York. Academic credits include an honorary doctorate from Oxford Brookes University and a Visiting Professorship at the University of Hertfordshire. His book Letters to George was published in 1989.