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Shakespeare Alive! Shakespeare Alive! is the touring educational outreach program of the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, which includes six different performance workshops which can be scheduled from September through May. Since 1990, Shakespeare Alive! has served over 160,000 in 109 of Kentucky's 120 counties, as well as in Indiana, Tennessee and West Virginia.

The program is a visionary approach to education through the arts. Its unique blend of performance and audience interaction makes an indelible impression on students and markedly affects their attitudes toward dramatic literature.

Shakespeare Alive! in unanimously approved by teachers and students. Audience sizes are limited to ensure an intimate theatrical experience. A study guide is available for each Shakespeare Alive! program.

List of programs for Shakespeare Alive!

Boy Meets Girl

Boy Meets Girl Meets Shakespeare

This 50-minute, two-actor, interactive performance workshop imaginatively engages students and helps teachers to achieve KERA goals. Based on this year's theme "To Thine Own Self Be True," these age-appropriate workshops contain scenes from Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It, and A Midsummers Night's Dream for elementary and middle school students, and Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, and Richard III for high school students. By viewing and discussing thematically-linked scenes, students discover the accessibility of Shakespeare and explore the complexity of the human condition.
Shakespeare's Clowns: A Fool's Guide to Shakespeare

A 50-minute/one actor interactive performance workshop for fourth grade through adult, featuring monologues and songs from some of Shakespeare's most loved humorous fools, clowns and jesters. The characters are selected from plays other than the "big 4" (Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth or Romeo and Juliet) to introduce the audience to the great variety of non-tragic characters in his 37 plays. This engaging montage depicts some of Shakespeare's funniest, yet most profound characters. Maximum audience: 100 per workshop.

Staging a Shakespearean Scene

This 50-minute interactive performance workshop is an excellent opportunity to access kinesthetic and verbal learners. Each workshop can be tailored to meet your students' experience or skill-level in one of two formats. The Introductory-level workshop introduces students to the basics of performance, using warm-up techniques and choral readings of Shakespeare's scenes. In the Advanced-level workshop, students build upon preparatory work supplied in the accompanying study guide to interpret and stage a scene from a selected play. Combining either format with BOY MEETS GIRL MEETS SHAKESPEARE will give your students a full experience of Shakespeare as a dramatist.

Shakespeare's Sonnets

A 50-minute/one actor interactive workshop that uses a professional theatre facilitator to get the students up and on their feet. For fourth grade through adult, it features several of Shakespeare's 154 sonnets to weave a magical spell of language, rhythm, and rhyme. Maximum audience: 35 per workshop.

Favorite Tales from Shakespeare

This 50-minute, one-actor, interactive performance workshop provides young children (K-3) with the perfect introduction to Shakespeare through audience participation and dramatic storytelling. Past stories have included Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Pericles, The Tempest, and Twelfth Night. Maximum audience: 35 per workshop.

Teaching Tolerance and Conflict Resolution

A 1.5 hour, 3 hour or 6 hour interactive drama workshop for fourth grade through adult that is designed to allow the participants an opportunity to examine relevant social issues within the structure of an aesthetic experience.

This approach allows the participants a 'safe' encounter with the complex issues and pressures that face them in today's world. Each participant explores the interpersonal and life skills necessary to be productive member of society.

Participants are challenged to develop problem solving skills, to build community, and to explore personal issues while working on the plays of William Shakespeare. Maximum audience: 24

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