"Playing With Shakespeare" Workshop Announced!

After the success of our latest Shakespeare reworking, HAMLET: ROTTEN STATES, and the previous success of MACBETH: A TALE OF SOUND & FURY, we have decided to share some of our practices in a brand new workshop. With MACBETH and HAMLET, we have established a fairly successful formula for approaching and reworking Shakespeare texts, making them exciting, vibrant and original pieces of theatre whilst respecting the language and the beauty of the verse.

We want to share our approach to Shakespeare in a workshop that will explore:

• our approach to verse
• our approach to chopping up the text
• how we play with form and style
• making comedy of tragedy
• turning lack of budget into innovation

We think this workshop will be hugely enjoyable and useful whether you're a fresh-faced acting student or a seasoned thespian. It is primarily aimed at:

• actors looking to "brush up their Shakespeare"
• theatre makers thinking of approaching a Shakespeare/classical text
• people who have always found Shakespeare inaccessible

We welcome participants from all backgrounds and all levels of training. If you have any access requirements please let us know. The workshop will involve a lot of movement, so please come in comfortable clothes.

Date: Saturday 1st February 2020
Time: 10am - 4pm
Location: Brixton, London
Price: £35, concessions £25

The workshop will be run by 6FootStories' co-artistic directors, Jake Hassam and Nigel Munson.

​To book your place, please email with a short introduction to yourself to [email protected].

​Jake Hassam trained as an actor at the Oxford School of Drama, and has an MA in Voice Studies from Central School of Speech and Drama.

He teaches voice and acting privately as well as at prestigious drama schools like Oxford School of Drama, Rose Bruford and Italia Conti.

​You can see more on his practice at his website.

​Nigel Munson also trained as an actor at the Oxford School of Drama.

​He works extensively as a director and facilitator, running courses and projects for Chickenshed, East 15, Bodens College of Performing Arts, Shakespeare Schools Festival, Kingdom Drama School, Fourth Monkey and many other organisations.