SPRING 2024

Shakin' Up Hoosier Schools

Let Hoosier Shakespeare Festival "Shake Up Your School" with a live, professional production of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet for your middle and high school students.

Hoosier Shakespeare Festival uses Renaissance Style Staging (RSS). This style of theatre leaves the lights on the audience, employs a simple set, and always includes music and audience interaction.

“Hoosier Shakes” style is fresh, accessible, and focused on the joy that is unique to live performance for which Shakespeare was originally writing.

Fall 2022 production of Macbeth toured to six counties in Northern and Central Indiana.

BOOK A SCHOOL PERFORMANCE

A one-hour performance filled with music and magic, sword play and foul play. Staged in classic Hoosier Shakes Renaissance Style Staging: the lights stay on the audience and the actors talk right to you! Followed by an optional Q & A with the actors.

WORKSHOPS

Choose from several workshops on bringing Shakespeare’s works to life, the nuances of Renaissance Style Staging, beginning (or advanced) Shakespearean verse, and more! Most workshops are limited to 30 students.

2024 WORKSHOPS

* Workshops are interactive and typically can accommodate up to 30 students
* Demos have minimal interaction, but can accommodate as many students as fit in the space.

WORKSHOPS and DEMOS

1. WITH THE LIGHTS OUT, IT’S LESS DANGEROUS

Renaissance Style Staging. Demo.
Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain was right! Find out why Hoosier Shakes employs the same “dangerous” staging conditions as Shakespeare original company. Using examples from Macbeth, Hoosier Shakes actors demonstrate why universal lighting, thrust staging, double casting, cross gender casting, and rapid pacing make for a dynamic theatrical experience.

2. ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE

Beginning Shakespearean Verse. Interactive

Be an actor for a day! In this hands-on workshop, your students are taken step by step through the process that Hoosier Shakes actors go through in turning “dusty old words” into a living, breathing, on-stage experience. Great for all ages and experience levels.

3. ONCE MORE INTO THE BREACH

Stage Combat. Interactive or Demo.

Students learn the basics 0f stage fighting. Led by the Hoosier Shakes Macbeth fight captain. Actors will demo how stage combat is choreographed and rehearsed. Safety and storytelling are emphasized, and students will learn their own brief fight sequence.

4. SPEAK THE SPEECH, I PRAY YOU…

Acting Shakespeare. Interactive.
The best advice on acting Shakespeare came from Shakespeare himself. Hoosier Shakes lead your students through the “advice to the players” speech from Hamlet and apply Shakespeare’s wisdom to your student’s audition pieces. Students should have 6-10 lines of Shakespeare well memorized.

5. LAW AND ORDER: SCOTLAND

The Trial of Lady Macbeth. Interactive.

Lady Macbeth kills no one in the play—but is she responsible for turning her husband into a mass murderer? On TV, the prosecutor would claim, “Macbeth was a loaded gun and lady Macbeth pulled the trigger.” Explore the plot and themes of Macbeth in this, fun, interactive mock trial. Students serve on the prosecution and defense teams and serve on the jury.

* Want a workshop about something else? Just ask and we will do our best to accommodate your request.

2024 PRICING

AVAILABLE ON REQUEST!

To book a show or for more information, contact:
Executive Director, Tracy Manning at execdirector@hoosiershakes.com