Teaching Shakespeare Through Performance

Every summer, teachers from across the USA spend two weeks at Shakespeare's Globe. During their time here the teachers work on the following projects: 

Teaching strategies for the contemporary classroom

Teachers work with Globe Education staff and practitioners to explore practical, active approaches to the teaching of Shakespeare. As the course progresses, teachers reflect on their process and discoveries and consider how their learning at the Globe might inform classroom practice.

Creating a production for the Globe Theatre

Teachers are immersed in the life of a working theatre. As well as attending two of the Globe's productions, teachers meet and work with members of the Globe Theatre Company responsible for design, direction, movement, music, text and voice to explore how productions at the Globe are conceived and mounted.

Producing a scene for the Globe stage

Teachers work in groups with directors on particular scenes from the Globe repertory and will present them on the Globe Theatre stage.

Teachers are selected by the English Speaking Union. Click here to download the Teaching Shakespeare Thorough Performance 2012 brochure or for further information please contact the ESU:

      International Programs
      The English Speaking Union of the United States
      144 East 39th Street
      New York, NY 10016

      Telephone: (+001) 212 818 1200