The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. is usually the tranquil domain of researchers and historians. However, this week, the library has opened its doors to hundreds of schoolchildren as it hosts the 29th Annual Children’s Shakespeare Festival. The festival began Monday and concludes today.
Over thirty elementary schools were invited to perform in this year’s [...]
This month, students from six West London Schools are getting the chance to work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and perform on the set of the RSC’s production of the complete history cycle at the Roundhouse Theatre. The student performances are part of the RSC’s 2008 Playback Project, a performance-based outreach program that encourages students [...]
Over 30 elementary schools will take part in the Folger Shakespeare Library’s 29th Annual Children’s Shakespeare Festival. The festival starts today, May 12 and continues through Friday, May 16. Children in grades 3 through 6 will act out Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets on the Elizabethan-style stage at the library. The festival embodies the Folger Education [...]
“Teaching children a passion for Shakespeare and the beauty of his language used to be one of the main aims of English lessons. Now the plays are being chopped up and shown to schools in truncated form…pupils see performances only of the scenes on which they face tests,” writes Nicola Woolcock in “The Times.” Woolcock [...]
Ron Jenkins, a professor of theatre at Wesleyan University, took a group of students from the university to teach Shakespeare for one semester to incarcerated teenagers at the Connecticut Juvenile Training School.
When they started, Jenkins says, “They were prepared to explain the meaning of the Bard’s words to the Cady School students, and they did [...]
“For the Bay Area youths who ask themselves to be or not to be, there will be an opportunity to question whether’tis nobler for the mind to suffer endless video games or spend the summer performing Shakespearean theater. The San Francisco Shakespeare Festival has been hosting summer Shakespeare camps since 1993, in which 7- to [...]
“The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) today announced that 40 nonprofit, professional theater companies will receive grants to participate in Shakespeare for a New Generation from June 1, 2008-May 31, 2009. Part of the NEA’s Shakespeare in American Communities initiative, Shakespeare for a New Generation targets middle and high school students, introducing young people [...]
“The idea to re-imagine some of William Shakespeare’s best-known works as graphic novels didn’t come to Clive Bryant while he was thumbing through a comic, or at the theatre, or even while he was reading one of the bard’s plays. The idea came, oddly enough, while he was on the train, absorbed in Malcolm Gladwell’s [...]
Judge Paul Perachi in Pittsfield, MA sentences kids to perform Shakespeare. It’s that or jail.
“We take kids that are in the court for delinquencies and criminal offenses…we order them as a condition of probation to participate in and complete the Shakespeare program,” said Judge Paul Perachi. He sentences kids in court to perform Shakespeare. It’s [...]
“Shakespeare 24 (S24) is an exciting worldwide Shakespeare performance event. Beginning in New Zealand and ending 24 hours later in Hawaii. 60 youth groups will stage 30 and 45 minute adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays at 7pm, local time on Shakespeare’s 444th birthday, April 23rd 2008. Young people from around the world are invited to participate [...]
