It’s Summer, and Shakespeare Youth Festival invites you to join us for our Friday Summer Recitals! Every Friday, at 2 pm, our young actors and writers (ages 8 through 17) will share their work in a free public performance.
YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL
Eight young playwrights have spent a week creating and developing new short plays. They will present their work, read by an ensemble of adult professional actors, and teen actors from the Shakespeare Youth Festival ensemble.
Friday, June 25 at 2 pm
Online.
SHAKESPEARE AND NATURE
In the 16th Century, we were still in harmonious communication with the dirt below our feet and the spheres and lights above. Our actors have spent a week exploring Shakespeare’s use of Nature in his plays. Join us as they present their work.
Friday, July 16 at 2 pm
Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area
SHAKESPEARE AND MUSIC
In addition to exploring the music found in Shakespeare’s plays, our actors have created their own movement pieces, inspired by the composers and artists inspired by Shakespeare.
Friday, July 23 at 2 pm
Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area
SHAKESPEARE AND MYTHOLOGY
In earlier times, human eyes looked both above and below for help and guidance. Our actors have spent the week with the Ancients – blending our favorite myths together with similar references in Shakespeare’s plays.
Friday, July 30 at 2 pm
Online
SHAKESPEARE AND MAGIC
From the prophecies and dreams in Julius Caesar to the Weird Sisters predictions to Macbeth to the resurrection in A Winter’s Tale, to the illusions and shape-shifting in The Tempest – magic was in the air during the time of Shakespeare!!
Friday, August 6 at 2 pm
Online