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Nationally replicated and locally treasured, the annual Fall Festival of Shakespeare brings more than 500 high school students together each year for a nine-week, collaborative, non-competitive, celebratory exploration and production of multiple Shakespeare plays.
The flagship of our Education Program, the annual Fall Festival of Shakespeare is a residency program at 10 high schools in Massachusetts and neighboring New York. Shakespeare & Company directing teams lead students at each school through a language-based exploration of different Shakespeare plays, culminating in full-scale productions at their own schools and then on the main stage at our own Tina Packer Playhouse. When high-energy teenagers are turned loose – through the power of Shakespeare’s language – the thrill is contagious. And the houses are packed.
“This is a rock concert of Shakespeare! Show after show after show the theater is jammed with kids and adults cheering for the performers and the productions.” –WBUR Radio, Boston
The Fall Festival deeply engages students through personally meaningful, educationally rigorous and dramatically compelling experiences of Shakespeare’s classical dramas. The Festival is truly a celebration, never a competition. Students from multiple schools work collaboratively, exploring Shakespeare’s words, unpacking the humor and the heartbreak, the intensity and humanity of these unparalleled plays.
The 34th Annual Fall Festival of Shakespeare
November 17 - 20 at the Tina Packer Playhouse
SCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCES
Thursday, November 17
- 6:15 pm – Lee Middle & High School’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
BUY TICKETS - 8:30 pm – Berkshire Waldorf High School’s Much Ado About Nothing
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Friday, November 18
- 6:15 pm – Mount Greylock Regional School’s As You Like It
BUY TICKETS - 8:30 pm – Taconic High School’s Julius Caesar
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Saturday, November 19
- 1:15 pm – Monument Mountain Regional High School’s Henry V
BUY TICKETS - 3:30 pm – Springfield Central High School’s Love’s Labor’s Lost
BUY TICKETS - 6:15 pm – Pittsfield High School’s Twelfth Night
BUY TICKETS - 8:30 pm – Mount Everett Regional School’s Macbeth
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Saturday, November 19
- 12:00 pm – Lenox Memorial Middle & High School’s Hamlet
BUY TICKETS - 2:15 pm – Taconic Hills Jr/Sr High School’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
BUY TICKETS - 4:30 pm – Chatham High School’s Macbeth
BUY TICKETS - 6:15 pm – The Closing Reverence
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