WORKSHOP DAYS
We are pleased to present a new programme of Workshop Days tailored to make learning about the Bard as inspirational, enlightening and educational as can be! Motivate your pupils to learn to love Shakespeare's ability to communicate the dilemmas of humanity. Workshops will be targeted to the needs of your students, and are suitable for those studying both English and Drama.
LOVERS, RUSTICS AND JUSTICE
"More of me comes out when I improvise." - Edward Hopper
16th, 17th and 18th June 2008
A unique day exploring improvisation skills and techniques developed by Viola Spolin, the American 'Godmother of Improvisation', focusing on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
This workshop has been created by poet Phil Bowen, who has worked extensively in over three hundred schools throughout the country as a writer in education, in association with 'Top of the Tree' literary agent.
Phil has developed the workshop to focus on creativity, adapting the concept of the play to unlock students' individual capacity for creative self-expression. Suitable for Key Stages 3, 4 and 5, both English and Drama students.
Students: £17.50 each.
10.00am Shakespearience Show
11.00am Workshop 1
12.30pm Lunch
1.00pm Workshop 2
2.30pm Depart
A bespoke, interactive workshop highlighting the endless accessibility of Shakespeare's key themes and ideas, utilising examples from film, television and popular culture.
The day focuses on enabling students to relate to the Bard by bringing him alive in the modern day, and emphasising the limitless capacity for adaptation that his universal themes and ideas represent.
Able to focus on a selection of Shakespeare plays, to suit. Any age group.
Students: £15.95 each.
10.00am Shakespearience Show
11.00am Workshop 1
12.30pm Lunch
1.00pm Workshop 2
2.30pm Depart
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES - Macbeth, IV.i
17th, 18th and 19th September 2008
A daring and exciting experience focusing on the supernatural, magic and dreams in Macbeth, The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream.
This inspiring day encorporates a walking tour of Stratford-upon-Avon led by local alternative historian Andrew Woolley, which will be full to the brim(stone) of interesting and quirky information about the life of the Bard, and how the local area may have influenced the weird and wonderful occurences in many of his plays.
An interactive and stimulating workshop concentrating on the bizarre, unearthly elements of Shakespeare's plays forms the first part of the day. Other plays can be implicit within the day upon prior request. Ideals for GCSE and potential GCSE students.
Students: £15.95 each.
11.00am Shakespearience Show
12.00pm Lunch
12.30pm Workshop
1.00pm Town Walk
2.00pm Depart
FOOLISH WISDOM
"What fools these mortals be!" - A Midsummer Night's Dream, III.ii
4th, 5th and 6th November 2008
The day is an investiagtion into ways 'fool' characters are celebrated and employed in plays by Shakespeare and Jonson. The day will explore ways in which the fool moves between different worlds in terms of social hierachy, types of character and phyrsical contexts, looking in detail at Jonson's Volpone and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and King Lear amongst others.
The day will provide students with the opportunity to evaulate and enjoy the ways in which fool characters distil and articulate the themes of the plays, and how they act as social commentators in the worlds of their plays.
This will be an exciting, thought-provoking and original day, encouraging students to use their initiative, and think deeply about the incredible world of Renaissance Drama. Other texts can be encorporated into the day upon request. Created and led by accomplished writer Dr Michael W Thomas. Suitable for KS5 English and Drama students.
4th, 5th and 6th November 2008. Students: £17.50 each.
10.00am Shakespearience Show
11.00am Workshop 1
12.30pm Lunch
1.00pm Workshop 2
2.30pm Depart |
