“Hands On Shakespeare is designed to enhance teachers’ performance and presentation skills with Shakespeare texts”, says Pedro Silva, The Festival’s Managing and Artistic Director. “The concept is that as teachers become more knowledgeable about and comfortable with Shakespeare’s performativity, they can better impart this quality to their students and, hopefully, more fully engage them in the exploration and study of the plays.”
The workshops are introductory in nature, designed for teachers eager to better handle the plays’ language and theatrical potential. Each of the workshops is identical in content and focus, though each will use a different play as the key tool to develop teachers’ performance skills, as follows: April 25 – Macbeth; July 25 – A Midsummer Night’s Dream; October 24 – Romeo & Juliet.
Workshops will run from 12:00 – 6:00 each scheduled Saturday. The price for a workshop is $99 and includes all materials and refreshments. The Festival recommends teachers inquire at their schools about funding support and CEU teacher certification workshop credit. Space is limited.
All workshops will be headed by Martha Mendenhall, The Festival’s Outreach Education Artistic Associate. Martha has over twenty years experience teaching students and educators and working with young people on Shakespeare productions.
Call The Festival at 336-841-2273, x226 to register or for more information or email joan.andrews@ncshakes.org. Registration forms may also be downloaded from NCSF’s website, www.ncshakes.org, by viewing Hands On Shakespeare on the site’s Outreach and Education heading. The registration deadline for workshops is 2 weeks prior to each workshop date.
it's rather rare to find such kind of workshop these days especially since students will greatly benefit from these. teaching shakespeare texts indeed needs internalization and workshops can provide these. i commend organizers of such!
by: matthew
Posted by: Acting class Los Angeles | May 28, 2009 at 10:54 PM