Designed as an exciting, high-energy introduction to the most well known works of Shakespeare, Shakespeare To Go brings six actors to North Carolina area schools, performing edited versions of entire plays. Shakespeare To Go offers educators the opportunity to provide their classes with performance experiences of Shakespeare's world and work created especially for students. Performed by young, enthusiastic, professional actors, Shakespeare To Go will also offer workshops designed to get the student audiences up on their feet, experiencing the magic of speaking and performing the Bard for themselves! Shakespeare To Go features direct audience contact between actor and audience - literally. Actors incorporate the student audience into every performance, giving students the valuable experiences of both observing and participating in a live performance of the Bard's work. The program offers minimal use of set and costumes, sharing with students a primary focus on the language of Shakespeare, while also allowing performances to take place in almost any venue a school can offer. The program encourages its audience to use its imagination and sense of play, as actors double and triple the roles they perform in any given production. THE 2010 TOUR: February 1 – May 15 Fresh on the heels of its 2009 American Express sponsored tour - the most popular in the program's 31 year history! - The Festival's 2010 tour of Shakespeare To Go offers educators a choice between an abbreviated production of Hamlet or The Taming of the Shrew.

Give The Festival an hour's traffic of the stage and we'll give you the entire plays...well, minus a few words here and there. Six actors, each playing multiple roles, sword play and some of the most famous and memorable characters in all of dramatic literature! NCSF promises an inviting and interactive experience that will enrich your school's study of the world's greatest dramatic figure.

Hamlet
In sixty minutes with six actors, we'll give you the whole enchilada (well, nearly the whole thing) -- the ghosts, the intrigue, the madness, the gravedigger, the sword-fighting, the play within a play, the deaths! You won't want to miss this production of, arguably, the world's most famous tragedy.

The Taming of the Shrew
What teenager can't relate to a character so misunderstood by others that her cries of "I gotta be ME!" fall on deaf ears? This timeless comedy pits the "good" girls and boys against those individuals who would rather buck the system, in favor of finding their own true selves. Six actors, sixty minutes - comic hijinks galore!

Shakespeare To Go Fees

$750 for a Single Performance. Individual performances must be booked for start times of: AM by 9:00 and/or PM at 1:00 or later. $600 for additional same-day-same-school performance, and $650 per performance for consecutive two-performance days booked by same presenter and playing in the same area.

$1200 for a One-Day Residency. A residency is a day in which the STG company is in residence at one school for the entire school day, and includes one performance plus classroom workshop visitations. The exact structure of the residency is to be customized by NCSF and the presenting school on a per case basis. $1100 per day for a Multi-Day Residency.

Maximum Performance Audience Size: 250-300
Maximum Workshop/Visitation Size: 30-35

PLEASE NOTE: Travel fees may apply, depending on presenter location.

For booking information, please contact NCSF at (336)841-2273, ext.226, or sales@ncshakes.org.