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 – $95
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 design a currculum that will 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 either Romeo and Juliet (available Fall 2008) or Othello (available Spring 2009)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.