The Atlanta Shakespeare Company has been selected as one of the 21
venues for the Cultural Experience Project offered by the Office of Cultural
Affairs. This project will serve the
Atlanta Public School students in the 2016-2017 school year.
The Cultural Experience Project was launched during the 2005-2006
school year to give every Atlanta Public School (APS) student the opportunity
to experience the city’s premier art and cultural venues. The Atlanta Shakespeare Company will be
serving high school level students with performances of Caesar: 60, an hour long performance of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar directed by Kati Grace
Brown and adapted by Andrew Houchins.
These performances, taking place in September, will reach over 1000
students. By encouraging students to
hear and analyze Shakespeare’s language, plot, and characters, these
performances will meet criteria that directly ties to Common Core Georgia
Performance Standards and curriculum goals. Teachers will also receive study guides
before performances as well as post show question and answer sessions with the
actors.
The Atlanta
Shakespeare Company’s Education programs provide opportunities for students,
educators and parents throughout Georgia and the Southeast to experience the
power of Shakespeare’s language and dramatic vision through play, passion,
poetry, active participation and performance using dynamic, language based
methods. We do this through interactive,
fast paced playshops in the classroom; useful, in depth study guides for all
our school programs and performances; in school and after school residencies of
varying lengths where the full power of Shakespeare in performance can be
experienced by your entire school and summer programs that delve deep into the
world of Shakespeare performance and study for students and teachers alike.
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If you would like more information about this topic, please
contact Amanda Lindsey McDonald
at amanda@shakespearetavern.com .
