Playing Shakespeare from the Heart with Jacque Drew
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26 November 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Online (Equity Members 18+)
Applications Open 5 November 2026 6:00 am
Applications Close 26 November 2026 11:00 am
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Synopsis
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26 November 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Join Jacque Drew to gain a deeper connection to Shakespeare’s text. Using a heart-centred approach to language, participants will use voice and breath to ignite the vocal energy centres of head, heart and gut. You will explore the text via exercises aimed at creating spontaneous, emotional connection to language rather than mechanical recitation. You will also discover how “operative” words can drive meaning and clarity beyond intellectual understanding, to find the visceral, emotional heart of the text. NOTE: participants are encouraged to zoom from a location where they can use their voice (the group will be on mute) and take part in a guided visualisation. Please note: This event is at 12:00pm AEDT (Sydney/Melbourne time) and 2pm NZ time. You will be sent a Zoom link to tune in.
Online (Equity Members 18+)
Host(s)
Jacque Drew
Jacque Drew is an actor, educator, voice and dialect coach based in Auckland, New Zealand. She was a founding member of the Tygres Heart Shakespeare Company (Portland, Oregon), where she performed in over a dozen of Shakespeare’s plays. In her time at Tygres Heart she also served as education coordinator, earning the outstanding contribution to education award from the Teachers Association of Oregon. She trained in Shakespearean performance with Tina Packer and Kristin Linklater at Shakespeare & Company (Lenox, Massachusetts ) Australian audiences may have seen Jacque at the Pop-Up Globe appearing in the Melbourne season of Much Ado About Nothing and Othello.
