Shake-it-up Shakespeare!

Every Saturday from May 20th - July 22nd

14-17 year olds:  3.45 - 5:15

18+:                          5.45 - 7:15

In The Maya Angelou Room

Shake-it-up Shakespeare!

Every Saturday you will be taken through a bunch of activities and games that look at Shakespeare, his slang, where it still shows up and why it’s still relevant today. Each session will take you through a range of activities to help you understand and decipher the Shakespearean tongue; you will look at;

• Character – meeting a Shakespearean character for the first time and finding out more about them by bringing your imagination and experience to the front
• Performance – discovering what types of performing creates a scene and a scene into a play. Exploring how we use our bodies and actions to tell a story!
• Rhythm – learn the rhythms of iambic pentameter and the poetic bars that inspire rappers to this day and had the Elizabethans on the edge of their seats
• Text –  Breaking down old words and finding out what they mean to us, so that we can recreate our own versions and perform them in a way we understand.

Have you ever heard Hamlet done in a Caribbean accent? Or imagined Romeo and Juliet doing up netflix and chill?

Or seen Macbeth and the Mandem on ends?

No? Then join us and explore Shakespeare in a way you’ve never seen before!

Talawa and the CSEP are linking up to bring you some FREE fun and explorative acting sessions that will broaden your idea of the Shakespearean tongue.

But we promise it won't be dead!

These Shake it up Shakespeare sessions will have you laughing in a whole new language!

Inclusive of Drama, storytelling, and text work and ending in a small performance to family and friends, this is going to be epic!