This is an example to show how we divided the actors among three coaches for The Winter’s Tale. The names in parentheses are actors who are also under another coach. Since we had to share them, we made a rough chart to show who started out with them and when they should switch to the other coach. The remaining actors stayed with their assigned coach the entire time. The first two days we stretched the workshops to last the entire four hours, but the last two days we ran through the entire play in the afternoon. This run-through only works if there is at least one coach who works backstage to cue actors to get ready to go on for their parts. It is important to keep the run-through going. Coaches and actors should take notes to share suggestions after the rehearsal.
Coach 1: scenes that take place in Sicilia (Act I, sc ii; Act II, sc I, sc ii, sc iii; Act III, sc ii-Coach 2 coaches sc I-, Act V, sc I, sc iii)
Leontes
(Polixenes)
Hermione
(Camillo)
(Antigonus)
(First Lord)
Paulina
Attendant to Paulina
A Gaoler
Emilia:
Servant
(Cleomenes)
(Dion and “Lord”)
Officer
(Florizel)
(Perdita)
Coach 2 : coaching Time, mariner’s scene, Cleomenes and Dion scene and the 3 gentlemen: (Act III, sc I; Act III, sc iii; Act IV, chorus; Act V, sc ii-only 3 gents part; all time’s speeches but not the pantomime in the background.)
Time(Antigonus)
(Cleomenes)
(Dion and “Lord”)
A Mariner
First Gentleman
(Second Gentleman)
Third Gentleman
(Autolycus)
Coach 3: scenes that take place in Bohemia (Act IV, sc I, sc ii, sc iii; Act V, sc ii-only clown and shep part)
(Camillo)
(Polixenes)
Florizel
Perdita
Autolycus
Clown
Dorcas
Mopsa
An Old Shepherd
Servant of Old Shepherd