Shakespeare To Go
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 scenes and 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. Each presentation is designed to fit within one class period’s “traffic of the stage,” and is 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 2009 TOUR
January 29-April 19
For its Winter/Spring 2009 tour, Shakespeare To Go will offer educators a choice between an abbreviated production of Romeo and Juliet or a compendium of selected scenes in The Shakespeare Primer.
Romeo and Juliet
Yes, that’s right. Give us one class period’s traffic of the stage (60 minutes) and we’ll give you the entire play…Well, minus a few words here and there. Six actors taking on 11+ roles, sword play, and the most famous love story of all time! NCSF promises an inviting and interactive experience in our first ever school tour of one of the Bard’s plays. Don’t miss it!
The Shakespeare Primer
Comedy is the name of the game for 2009. This 45-minute program is designed to take students on an inclusive, whirlwind tour across the Bard’s canon. Scenes, soliloquies and songs will highlight Shakespeare’s clowns, fools, lovers and misguided comic characters of all stripes. The Shakespeare Primer is a valuable first contact with Shakespeare’s words, works, and characters.
Shakespeare To Go Fees
| $100 – |
Classroom Visitation/Workshop
(Available only with a performance – Maximum
Audience is 30) |
| $750 – |
Single Performance (Maximum
Audience – 450) |
| $925 – |
One-Day Residency |
| |
Format A: One Performance and Two Visitations
or Workshops
Format B: Two Performances at One Location
Format C: Two Performances, One Each at Two Adjacent
Locations |
| $825 – |
Multi-Day Residency (Rate
is per day) |
For booking information, please contact Joan Andrews at 336-841-2273, ext.226, or sales@ncshakes.org.
PLEASE NOTE: For some locations, travel fees may apply. |
