Shakespeare in Action - Canada's Leader in Shakepeare Education

Shakespeare Alive Series

The program:
This series is an active approach to learning and understanding the language of Shakespeare. The performances and workshops in this series are intended to break the language barrier for young audiences, develop their critical and analytical-thinking skills, build self-confidence and encourage to their ability to communicate ideas and observations effectively The prolific works of Shakespeare, which students will continue to encounter throughout their lives, stimulate thought, and create a common platform from which to discuss the relevance of many thematic issues with a diverse student population.

Shakespeare’s Mirror

Students …..discover that Shakespeare’s themes of sex, love, hate, jealousy, dysfunctional families and political intrigue are just as relevant today as when he penned his plays.
The Toronto Star

This popular interactive show is intended to demystify the language and explore the relevance of Shakespeare for young audiences. The entertaining performance begins with a thumbnail sketch of the life and times of Shakespeare, explores the development of language, the impact of history on contemporary society and connects thematic scenes to the behavioral psychology within the study of Shakespeare’s plays. This presentation is designed for students to engage with the actors, to discuss the text and characters of the scenes viewed, and finally, to challenge them to redirect the scenes by drawing on their own experiences. The show ensures that students will actually see Shakespeare performed by professional actors, have the opportunity to interact in meaningful discussion and synthesize what they experience.

Maximum number of students: 150
Time: 75 minutes

Available: Upon Request
For booking or more information contact:
Michael Kelly
Shakespeare In Education Office
Tel: (416) 703-4881 Fax (416) 603-9136
mkelly@shakespeareinaction.org

Shakespeare Master Class

Othello-Hamlet-Macbeth-R&J-Midsummer-TwelfthNight-KingLear!

Attention
English & Drama Departments

"A marvelously creative program"….. The Globe And Mail

Breaking The Language Barrier:
This high energy Hands-On workshop session is intended to demystify Shakespeare's language and to excite students beyond the classroom. The focus is on the action and power of the spoken word. Students will work in an ensemble, conducted by master teacher, Michael Kelly, using participatory methods such as, word-play, choral work, and improvisation to infuse the text with sound, rhythm, and movement bringing Shakespeare Alive in the classroom.

Learning Outcomes:

How to create a scene in class
How to devise a choral arrangement
How to employ word-play games with Shakespeare
How to have fun speaking Shakespeare
How to improvise with the text

Cost:

1.session $125.00
2.sessions $225.00
3 sessions $300.00
4 sessions $375.00

Maximum number of students: 30
Time: 75 minutes

Michael Kelly is Artistic Director of the internationally acclaimed, Shakespeare In Action theatre company, Canada's leader in Shakespeare education. Mr. Kelly is the founding director of the Teaching Shakespeare Summer Institute at York University, master teacher at Shakespeare's Globe theatre, London, the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, the Stratford Festival, and the National Youth Drama School, NZ. He has taught acting Shakespeare at George Brown College, York University, Randolph Academy for The Arts & Equity Showcase Theatre.

Available: Upon Request

For booking or more information contact:
Michael Kelly
Shakespeare In Education Office
Tel: (416) 703-4881 Fax (416) 603-9136
mkelly@shakespeareinaction.org

Teacher's Resources

Classroom Study Guides
Common Theatre Vocabulary
Facts about Shakespeare
Elizabethan England in the Age of Shakespeare

You Are Quoting Shakespeare!
by Richard Ledderer

If you know that the course of true love never did run smooth,
Or have ever worn your heart on your sleeve,
Suffered from green-eyed jealousy,
Refused to budge an inch,
Acted more in sorrow than in anger,
Hoped for a plague on both houses,
Knitted your brow,
Been tongue-tied, a tower of strength,
Hoodwinked or in a pickle,
Made a virtue of necessity, insisted on fair play,
Slept not one wink, stood on ceremony,
Danced attendance, laughed yourself into stitches,
Had short shrift, cold comfort,
Or too much a good thing;
Seen better days, recalled your salad days,
Lived in a fool's paradise,
Been eaten out of house and home by your own flesh and blood-
Be that as it may,
As good luck would have it,
You are quoting Shakespeare. And, let me add, if you now bid me good riddance and send me packing,
If you think I am an eyesore, a laughing stock, the devil incarnate,
A stony-hearted villain, bloody minded, a strange bedfellow or a blinking idiot:
If you wish I was dead as a doornail,
Then
–By Jove! Oh Lord! Tut Tut! For goodness sake! What the Dickens!–
It is all one to me,
–Even if it is Greek to you–
If the truth be told,
You are quoting Shakespeare!

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