Practice, Practice, Practice….

Blocking, Props, Lights…Camera….Action!

The Nurse Scene from Romeo and Juliet

The Argument Scene from The Taming of the Shrew

Caliban scene from The Tempest

Dividing the Land scene in King Lear

Scenes from Midsummer Night’s Dream

July 9, 2015

Today we started off juggling and jousting with the President of England (a.k.a Poma). After that, we played “word ping pong” and tried to CONQUER the other opponent. The President of England won the first two rounds as usual (how did he manage to become the President of England, otherwise?)

After the game, we got into our song lines and sang to that guy who trims the trees! Which means, we sang loud enough to sing over the gardener next door. After that, we went outside and danced in the yard that smelled like frogs. Afterwards, we came inside to get some refreshments and to put the delicious snacks in our mouths. After the snack feast from Frog Hollow Organic Farms, we came in to play some more games.

We learned about the Greensleeves song from Lady Heather…as we sang along with a live stand up bass and TWO guitars.

The counselors acted out Julius Caesar for our “play of the day”. We participated in yet another GRAND feast by Lady Becky the Baker of Frog Hollow Organic Farms. And that was our Thursday adventure!!

-By Jack and Skye

July 8, 2015

Today was another AWESOME day at Shakespeare for Kids! We started off the day with a warm-up game called, “Energy Ball”. Then we practiced our Shakespeare flower quotations on stage. After we sang our traditional Shakespeare songs (Heigh Ho, Tame Crane, Come Follow, and Barley Mow). Then we had an AMAZING snack from the organic Frog Hollow Farm. After we had our “junior” Olympics. Featuring shot put, discus, hurdles and standing long jump. A special guest came to this event, 2004 and 2008 Olympian, Grace Upshaw Tyler. She is currently our CEO for Shakespeare for Kids. We came inside and played our party guessing game. After, we had an awesome lunch…. Spaghetti! During lunch, our Artistic Director, Windy Margerum, called each student aside to ask them which character they’d like to be in the final night’s performance. It was another GREAT day at Shakespeare for Kids!

By Camille and Jessie