London 31st October 2011-That’s Education!
Fantastic event at the Greenwich Theatre on 31st October 2011! Full up to the last seat. Parents, grandparents, friends, teachers, all enthusiastic about the great performance of the students from the Borough schools: Primary, Grammar, College, all together to play Shakespeare’s works (Othello, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Twelfth Night). The director from the Shakespeare Schools Festival was impressed by the commitment of all the students and, in particular, of the youngest from Southrise Primary School who performed a surprisingly effective Julius Caesar.
The experience was unique for the actors, the organizers and the audience. In the picture the students from Bexleyheath Grammar School who splendidly performed The Twelfth Night.
Shakespeare Schools Festival is a great invention of the UK world of Education and Drama.
Libby Purves (The Times ) says: “SSF has done more than anybody to jazz up the once-dreary-curricular approach to our greatest playwright”.
“Taking part in the Shakespeare Schools Festival was like an awakening of an imagination in them”Teacher, Samuel Cody School
2011 Festival
Since 2000, 4,248 schools have taken up the challenge to become a Shakespeare School. SSF is the largest youth drama festival in the UK.
For the last ten years we have worked with teachers to challenge the preconception that studying Shakespeare is difficult, dry or dull through a combination of teacher training, workshops and student performance in a local professional theatre.
In the process we have enabled over 90,000 young people to appreciate the genius of Shakespeare through a creative, hands-on approach to the texts.
Make your school a Shakespeare School!
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