The Young Shakespeareans

“If I can do Shakespeare, I can do anything!”

Each academic year, elementary schools choose a Shakespearean play to read and discuss and select students to participate. Over the course of 12 weeks, Theatrical Teaching Artists lead students in carefully developed and challenging curriculum of academic and theatrical activities designed to foster awareness of innate abilities, to complement those abilities with academic and life skills, and to help them explore what they can be achieved through discipline, commitment, and teamwork. These efforts culminate in multiple performances by the students of an abridged but full-scale production of impressive quality for the school, and its families and extended communities.