Shakespeare Globe

Summer Schools

Teaching Shakespeare Through Performance

Every summer, 25 teachers from across the USA spend three 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 three 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.

For further information and application forms please contact the ESU:
International Programs
The English Speaking Union of the United States
144 East 39th Street
New York, NY 10016

Telephone: (212) 818 1200

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