Teaching Shakespeare’s Plays through Scholarship and Performance

FAIN: ES-261599-18

Theatre for a New Audience, Inc. (New York, NY 10014-2840)
Kathleen Dorman (Project Director: February 2018 to March 2021)

A two-week summer institute for 25 school teachers on the text and performance of Shakespeare’s plays.

Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA) proposes a two-week Summer Institute on Scholarship and Performance: Teaching Shakespeare's Plays, to be held July 15-26, 2019, at TFANA's Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn, New York. Offered to a national group of 25 middle and high school teachers, the Institute introduces a carefully integrated approach for exploring text-based scholarship, contextual and original source material, language, and performance in three Shakespeare plays. This year's participants will study ROMEO AND JULIET, ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, and RICHARD III under the guidance of leading Shakespeare scholars Julie Crawford (Columbia University) and Mario DiGangi (Lehman College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York), and master teaching artists and theatre practitioners Krista Apple and Claudia Zelevansky.