Connecting to Shakespeare - A Workshop by Tracy Irish

 Saturday, 24 March 2012

Ranan (8 Sultan Alam Road, Calcutta 700 033)

10am to 1pm

Participation Fees: Rs. 350/-

See it live, Start it earlier, and Do it on your feet

These are the calls to action in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Stand up for Shakespeare manifesto summing up what the RSC believes is at the heart of the best teaching and learning of Shakespeare.

Using strategies inspired by the RSC rehearsal room and drama practice, this workshop helps develop the skills, knowledge and confidence to get pupils on their feet, working together through active approaches to connect with Shakespeare. The session will explore activities that encourage students to make personal, interpretive choices by seeing a play from different characters’ points of view and exploring the meaning of the language.

The workshop will focus on Hamlet, but can be transferred to any text.

Suitable for English teachers and actors / directors who work with young people. A working knowledge of Hamlet is advised.


Apply here or send an email with full CV and contact details to rananindia@gmail.com by
22 March 2012

Call 98312 56730 for further details.

Tracy Irish

Tracy Irish is one of the lead practitioners in the education department at the Royal Shakespeare Company. For the World Shakespeare Festival, she is exploring how and why Shakespeare is taught around the world, focussing on seven countries / cities: Brazil, the Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Kolkata, Los Angeles, Oman, South Africa. Each case study is a dialogue and includes visiting the countries to see schools, interview teachers and students, observe and lead workshops / lessons with teachers and students to share RSC practice. Prior to the RSC, Tracy was a teacher of English and Drama for sixteen years, with experience of running departments in the UK and abroad.  Her work with Shakespeare in the classroom led to a series of books, The Shorter Shakespeare, and to directing a number of productions with young people.