Macbeth Performance & Workshop with Nashville Shakespeare Festival

We are excited to bring The Nashville Shakespeare Festival to our homeschool program!

In 1992, the Nashville Shakespeare Festival developed a series of touring versions of Shakespeare’s best-known works. Since then, these abridged productions tour schools throughout the region as well as colleges and universities, libraries, and other venues. To accompany the performance, The Nashville Shakespeare Festival’s company of professional actors and teaching artists also provide dynamic in-classroom workshops as well as Q&A sessions that deepen students’ understanding of the text and the production.   Our event will include the play MACBETH and a one hour workshop for students.

PLAY 

 In MACBETH, five actors tackle the captivating journey of a man and his wife as they navigate a powerful prophecy and strive to achieve a position of utmost power, no matter the consequence. This adapted production features a full musical score and sword fighting, and demonstrates the lasting lessons and power within Shakespeare’s poetry.

Content warning: Discussions of murder and death. Fake blood and scenes of violence are depicted.  Recommended for ages 10 and up as appropriate for your student.

WORKSHOP 

Taught by our Shakespeare Education Experience tour actors and teaching artists, workshops are the best possible way to give your students a memorable experience with a theater performance and with Shakespeare!   Workshops include games to encourage students to explore the big ideas of the play, and the motivations of the main characters.  With text from the play, students are encouraged to speak aloud and apply techniques used by professional actors to bring Shakespeare's language to life.  We will even get to try our hand at learning some stage combat!   It is a fun, energetic, and exploratory opportunity for students to engage with the play before or after they see it.