The New Hampshire
Shakespeare Festival
The New Hampshire Shakespeare Festival is currently on hiatus. Thank you to all the students who joined us from 2019-2023! If you’re a student, an educator, or a school leader who’d like to help us revive NHSF in a coming year, please contact us at [email protected]. We’d love to work with you!
Festival is an education program where students work with a directing team of teaching artists who lead the teens through a language-based exploration of Shakespeare. At the end of 10 weeks, the groups come together to showcase their work.
What to Expect from the Program:
- Flexible scheduling: teens choose how many days a week they'd like to participate and which days (all outside of school hours)
- Participants at each school will draw up a company contract, agreeing on their own rules and guidelines for rehearsals. This program runs on teen agency - they make decisions throughout the entire process!
- A directing team of teaching artists leads teens through a language-based exploration of Shakespeare.
- All teens (ages 13-19) with an interest in acting or the technical aspects of theater are welcome! Everyone who wishes to participate will be given a part!
- Students from all participating schools are invited to combined Master Classes in topics such as Clowning, Stage Combat, Movement, Performance, and Technical Theater.
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Interested in having your school or theatre group participate in the NH Shakespeare Festival?
Email Lucy at [email protected] to get involved! |
NH Shakespeare Festival: A Look Back
June 2023
The Ballad of Pyramus & Thisbe - Newfound Regional High School
Love’s Labours Lost - Inter-Lakes Middle High School
Twelfth Night - Winnipesaukee Playhouse
November 2021
Much Ado About Nothing - Newfound Regional High School
The Tempest - The Sandwich Cobble
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November 2020
Hamlet - Newfound Regional High School
A Midsummer Night’s Dream - The Sandwich Cobble
November 2019
Romeo & Juliet - Newfound Regional High School AND The Sandwich Cobble
SOME COMMENTS ON THE SUCCESS OF THE FALL FESTIVAL OF SHAKESPEARE IN LENOX, MA.
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"This has been a life-changing experience!. It has made me stronger and more confident.”
-Taconic Hills H.S. Student. |
"Through the process of rehearsing and performing the plays of William Shakespeare for themselves, students inhabit a Renaissance world of beautiful language, profound thought, and passionate feelings that articulate and celebrate the full spectrum of human experience.”
– Kevin G. Coleman, Director of Education, Shakespeare & Company |
“Fall Festival showed me an inner strength that I was never aware of. It taught me to appreciate the beauty and complexity of the human being, and to believe in myself.”
- Fall Festival Alum |
*A 2-year study of the Program by students from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education (Project Zero) “recommended replication and adaptation in every high school in the nation.”
