Post Primary Curriculum workshops
Shakespeare: GCSE & A Level:

Teachers are advised that students should have read
the chosen texts prior to attending the workshops.

Macbeth; Romeo and Juliet; Merchant of Venice; Julius Caesar; Richard II; Twelfth Night; Othello; Hamlet; Anthony and Cleopatra; King Lear; As You Like It.
(Other texts can be catered for, provided one week’s advance notice is given.)

The Shakespeare workshops are broken into three broad areas:
1) Characters
2) Themes
3) The language of Shakespeare
The workshops available for Shakespeare at GCSE and A Level are as follows:

1.Characters and Radio Drama

Age Range: 14 - 18
Duration: 1hr 30 mins (optional extra session with sound engineer will last one hour)
Group size: 30
Cost: £40 per group

This session will ask students to take a look at the main characters within the text they are studying and examine what clues Shakespeare gives us to make it clear what type of person they are.

We will look at the idea of 'dramatic irony' and investigate how the audience becomes privy to information not explicit in the text.
Students will then split into groups to rewrite a scene/scenes for a modern audience in the form of a scripted radio drama - incorporating and
demonstrating this new understanding. They will
be asked to rewrite the scene in a range of styles
- from soap opera to cop show. Examples of acceptable rewrites will include updating the language and setting to the modern day or imagining the innermost thoughts of the characters involved.

An optional second session can be booked with our recording engineer, who will record the finished dramas and instruct students in how to edit these and add sound effects.

2. Themes & Comic Books >>
3. Characters and Radio Drama >>