Matthew Collins
Speaker | Writer | Voice Coach
"We Sons of WW2 Veterans"
Podcaster
Matthew's next 2026 Shakespeare workshop,
Speaking Shakespeare's Ghosts, will be a Halloween Special in West London's Brompton Cemetery.
It will be on Sunday 1st November (2.30pm-4.30pm).
We'll meet outside the Visitors Centre (by West Brompton gate) and process to the chapel via Shakespeare-related graves.
Once in the reverberant chapel, Matthew will guide explorations of ghostly speeches from Hamlet; Julius Caesar; Richard III and other plays.
Participants will be encouraged to experience the intellectual, emotional and physical delight that comes from speaking Shakespeare's poetry - language that can take voices to unexplored zones.
Like all Matthew's workshops, it will be non-thespian, non-academic. And enormous fun. This Halloween Special is suitable for everyone (including children, accompanied by a parent).
Tickets are £16.95 (inc booking fee).
Mineral water, tea and biscuits will be provided.
To book, please click here:
https://matthew-collins-words-voice.sumupstore.com
More info about the workshop at the bottom of this page.
Matthew Collins is a writer, speaker and voice coach. He spent twelve years as a TV presenter. He raised two sons alone. And he spent ten years teaching in prisons.
Matthew runs presentation, public speaking and Explore Your Voice by Speaking Shakespeare workshops.
He gives regular talks and speeches:
Corporate/Social
Funny/Serious
Entertaining/Informative.
Subjects include:
Ten Years of Trips for BBC TV's The Travel Show
Across Canada with the Boys and Three Grannies
Teaching Shakespeare to Prisoners
and
We Sons and Daughters of WW2 Veterans
Matthew runs corporate voice workshops for sales teams.
And he offers one-to-one public speaking sessions for individual and corporate clients. (These can range from quick fixes for a looming presentation - to more long-term voice work.)
Last year he spoke at The European Speechwriters Network conference at Exeter College, Oxford.
And he launched We Sons of World War Two Veterans, a podcast about men who fought in World War Two whose stories are told by their sons.
Among recent Shakespeare workshops Matthew has run are:
Speaking Shakespeare's Sonnets in the chapel of London's Brompton Cemetery
Speaking Shakespeare's Women in a Chiswick pub.
Workshops in Kensington's Lycée Charles de Gaulle.
For more information about the We Sons of World War Two Veterans podcast click here.
For a full bio of Matthew, click here.
For information about talks and speeches; corporate / social / individual voice work; and Explore Your Voice by Speaking Shakespeare workshops, please contact Matthew via the form below.
Next Public Speaking Shakespeare Workshop
Matthew's next public workshop, Speaking Shakespeare's Ghosts, will be a Brompton Cemetery Halloween Special on Sunday 1st November (2.30pm to 4.30pm).
During the workshop, Matthew will introduce the principles of voice work and use exercises to help participants explore speeches from Hamlet; Julius Caesar, Richard III; and other plays.
The exercises will encourage participants to take their voices out of habitual usage patterns and into unfamiliar, ghostly zones.
This workshop is suitable for regular participants and for people who've never done voice work.
It's equally suitable for Shakespeare aficionados and for those who've never read a line of his poetry.
Children over 12 are welcome (if accompanied by a parent).
Nearest tube stations to Brompton Cemetery are West Brompton, Earl's Court and Fulham Broadway.
Tickets are £16.95 (inc booking fee).
Mineral water, tea and biscuits will be provided.
To book, please click here:
https://matthew-collins-words-voice.sumupstore.com
For more info on Matthew's Speaking Shakespeare workshops (corporate; educational; private) and his talks and speeches, please get in touch via the form below.
Thank you.
