Actors from The San Francisco Shakespeare Festival sat down with a group of homeless men and women to talk through a Shakespeare play — and show them some acting exercises.
Meghan Freebeck outside London's Globe Theatre in 2017. By Cathy Free March 14 at 8:00 AM In the early 1600s, butchers, tanners and other commoners all paid a penny — often almost an entire day’s wages — to join the masses in watching one of Shakespeare’s plays at London’s Globe Theatre. They were called groundlings because they stood on the ground while wealthier patrons sat higher in the stands.
That is how 16 homeless people in San Francisco ended up sitting in a circle last month with several actors Freebeck recruited from the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival to learn a bit about the Bard’s plays — and also learn how to apply the lessons of Shakespeare to their own lives:All of these phrases are from “As You Like It,” which was read and explored at a workshop that Freebeck believes is the first of its kind in the country: wisdom from Shakespeare spread out to all, not only the...
Participants who responded to Freebeck’s invitation to attend a “Shakespeare for All Neighbors” workshop at Project Homeless Connect’s downtown offices began the afternoon with a catered lunch of sandwiches, fruit and desserts, before splitting into groups of four for some light acting exercises. “It was a fun way to show how we all have stories and unexpected connections,” Freebeck said. “One man who is living in a shelter with his two brothers shared a story about his mother’s chicken soup recipe and how he hopes to make that soup when he has a kitchen again.”
“Growing up, I was taught the same values many people were taught — and that’s to fear people who are different,” she said.“No one was more different than me," she said. The story they developed was about a wealthy man who puts all of his money into jewelry, loses it, and learns what really matters in life when a poor man saves him from being hit by a carriage.
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