Our newest Rep. Company member Zachary Johnson answers our second round of acting questions. 1) When creating a Shakespeare character, do you start from the “outside” (voice and physicality) or the “inside” (relationships and motivations)? Why? Inside. It kind of has to be with me. Mostly, I am going to be sitting alone reading these words over and over again…all by myself…thinking about what the hell any of them could possibly mean. In that way, I am already having the inter

Introducing Brad Sytsma! Troilus and Cressida is Brad’s first production with PCSC, so he’s answering round one of our Acting Questions. 1) How Do you typically go about preparing a Shakespearean character? This is my first Shakespeare show, so I can’t say that I have a typical way to prepare a Shakespeare character. I think I pretty much followed my usual routine where I started by looking at the dialogue and figuring out what my character was thinking, and what other peop

Rep. Company member Janna Rosenkranz talks about the challenges of doing battle onstage in our production of Troilus and Cressida. I couldn’t have been more surprised when I was cast as Ajax and Cassandra. The later character, Cassandra, is the type of character that comes easy to me in that I know what it feels like to be a woman whose voice is not always (for poor Cassandra never) heard or counted. Ajax, on the other hand, through me for a real loop. I had nothing, internal