Education
Contact our Education Department
206-733-8228 ext. 212
Seattle Shakespeare Company's productions are part of Shakespeare in American Communities: Shakespeare for a New Generation, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts in cooperation with Arts Midwest.
Workshops & Residencies
PERFORMANCE WORKSHOPS
Shakespeare On Your Feet – $85
Pre- or post- show workshops
One class period (about one hour)
Use this valuable interactive workshop to enhance your students’ enjoyment when attending a student matinee. A professional teaching artist will use the language of the play to get your students on their feet and using Shakespeare’s words to gain a better understanding of the language, themes, action, and characters when they see the play.
Post-Show Talkback – $45
Half-hour session
Ask questions, make comments, get insights into the play! Students join cast members in the theatre immediately following a performance. This is an opportunity to have a one-on-one discussion of the play with actors in the theatre..
ONE-HOUR CLASSROOM WORKSHOPS
Led by teaching artists in your classroom. All workshops last one class period (about one hour) for up to 30 participants.
Choose any one for $125
- Introduction to Julius Caesar
- Or any other Shakespeare play
- Unarmed Combat
- Fundamentals of Stage Fighting
- Elizabethan Dance and Movement
- Period dance in Elizabeth I’s court
- Renaissance Dress and Manners
- Let us dress you for success!
- Sonnets
- Introduction to short form verse
- Staging Shakespeare Scenes in the Classroom
- Create a working set for students’ active reading
- Armed Combat demonstration/discussion ($225)
- When a punch isn’t enough (students do not participate with weapons)
RESIDENCIES
Pick your programs ala carté!
You pick the play, and we will help you inject vibrant, active exercises designed to unlock the text, themes, and action of the play. Anchor your curriculum unit with a student matinee at Seattle Shakespeare Company or a performance of Shakespeare’s Top Ten at your school, and then choose from any of the one-hour workshops. Our professional teaching artists bring an actor’s perspective to support goals for both teachers and students.
STAGED READING
More class time, more fun!
Ten days for $800
Invite Seattle Shakespeare Company to lead your students through an actor's exploration of Shakespeare's verse as they see, hear, analyze, write and perform their soliloquies or sonnets.
*Mileage fees may apply outside Seattle area.