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Introducing
The Shakespeare Centre
The Shakespeare Centre was established in 2009 to fill the gap created by the closure of The Shakespeare Globe Centre Australia.
The Shakespeare Centre will provide a variety of Workshops, Productions and Events for students, teachers and the wider general public.
By using theatre practitioners, as well as experienced teachers and academics, the creative program focuses on Shakespeare as a living and relevant performance blueprint.
And to launch this new organization, The Centre is offering your school a FREE 2010 Institutional Associate Membership as well as FREE 2010 Individual Associate memberships to teachers until October 2nd, the End of Term Three (After Term Three Associate memberships will rise to $50 and $15 respectively).
What will Associate Membership entitle you to? Substantial Discounts on all our 2010 educational activities: Such as:
- January Round about the cauldron go – Macbeth Summer Workshop
- February Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow – Launch of the 2010 Shakespeare Youth Festival
- March -May Speak the Speech – Making Sense of Hamlet workshops
- April Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths… Richard III Teachers intensive
- April As You Like It – Professional production of this HSC Text
And more to come…
AND IN THE MEANTIME, The Centre invites your Students to participate in our October Holiday Workshop, What A Piece of Work, a workshop and devised performance as part of the Shakespeare Schools Festival (UK), proudly supported by the English Speaking Union NSW-Branch.
Please email
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or Phone/ or /Fax Diana Denley or Victoria Nicolls at (02) 9572 9998 so that they can forward you the appropriate information.
2009 Creative Program
WHAT A PIECE OF WORK… -To launch The Shakespeare Centre and as part of
the International Shakespeare Schools Festival we invite your students
to participate in the October production WHAT A PIECE OF WORK…
2010 Creative Program – The First 6 Months
JANUARY 2010
Round about the cauldron go…
MACBETH Summer Workshop
Monday 18 – 22 Jan 2010
Participants will explore the intertwining themes of passion, revenge
and the supernatural, culminating in a showcase performance of
highlights from Macbeth.
Recommended for Yrs 8 – 11
FEBRUARY 2010
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow…
Join us for the Launch and Registrations for the 2010 School’s Youth Festival.
Recommended for Yrs 7 – 12
MARCH- MAY 2010
Speak the Speech… – Making sense of HAMLET -
A three hour in school workshop delivered in-schools designed to let
your students discover Shakespeare’s language without fear. Avail State
Wide
Recommended for Yrs 10-12
Drama and English Students
In assoc with Actors College of Theatre and Television -Australia's leading independent college for the performing arts.
APRIL 2010
Major Production
A production of a Shakespeare text from the Syllabus AS YOU LIKE IT
The Cleveland St Theatre, Cleveland St, Redfern (Opp. Prince Alfred
Park - a 5 minute walk from Central).
Recommended for Yrs 8 – 12
APRIL 2010
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths….
RICHARD III Teachers Intensive
7 April – Saturday 10 April
A four day intensive practical workshop in text analysis, adaptation,
voice, movement and ensemble work for teachers to explore Shakespeare.
Recommended for English and Drama Teachers
JUNE 2010
State Youth Festival
Celebration of the state wide School’s
Youth Festival
Recommended for Yrs 7 – 12
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