TEACHING RESOURCES
Explore free KS3-4 teaching resources for a range of curriculum texts, and stream past Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank productions in your classroom.
Free online teaching resources
Over the past 20 years, to work alongside Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank productions or on their own, we’ve created a wealth of free teaching resource websites for individual Shakespeare plays. Find exercises and lesson plans exploring the characters, plot, themes and context of these plays.
Watch past Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank productions
To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank, we’re making two of our previous productions available to stream in your classroom this school year – A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2021) and The Tempest (2023).
The films will be available until 31 March 2026.
Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank: The Tempest at the Globe Theatre in 2023 c. Ellie Kurtz.
Student Graffiti Competition
Preparations have begun for this year’s production of Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank: Romeo and Juliet, and we’d love to give your students an opportunity to get involved. We will be running a competition for the chance to have your students’ designs featured in the Romeo and Juliet set, to be seen by over 30,000 students throughout the production.
This could be run as a classroom activity to supplement your study of Romeo and Juliet – either in art, or in English! The competition will be judged by Natalie Pryce, the production’s Olivier award-winning Designer.
Our challenge is for students to choose a one-to-two-word phrase that they feel best encapsulates their own interpretation of the many and varied themes present in Romeo and Juliet and create a graffiti design that can be displayed as part of the set, as shown in the image on the left. Entries will close at 1.00pm on Monday 5 January 2026.
Download the task brief below for information on how to enter, along with key dates for the competition.