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RSC tour of schools
Guardian News
THE Royal Shakespeare Company will visit Rotherham schools as part of its tour of Hamlet this Autumn.
Wales High School will host a performance, along with schools in Wickersley and Winterhill. There will also be two public performances at Magna Science and Adventure Centre.
The tour heralds a new way of reaching audiences who may not normally have access to the RSC’s work. In schools the daytime performances will be for children, with evening performances aimed at their families and the local community. In the theatre venues tickets will be available to anyone.
The six week tour of the Young People’s Shakespeare production of Hamlet will visit schools and local theatres across England.
The 70 minute version of the play is performed using Shakespeare’s original text and without an interval. Many of the daytime performances will be followed by a schools’ workshop led by the actors, and most other performances will offer a question and answer session with the company.
Since 2008 the RSC has invited directors and writers to make surprising, challenging and entertaining work for children giving them a first experience of Shakespeare.
Jacqui O’Hanlon, RSC director of education, said: “The Hamlet tour is the fulfilment of a long held company ambition to take our work on the road and into schools and communities that would otherwise rarely get the chance to see it.”
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