BOOKING DETAILS
: No need to book
: Just turn up between 2pm and 4pm
: Free with museum entry

MORE
: Visit the Story Museum website   
: Read Twelfth Night with the Folger Shakespeare Library
: Listen to a radio production of Twelfth Night 
: Join our Sharing Shakespeare Facebook group

BOOKING DETAILS
: No need to book
: Just turn up at Deda's CUBE Cafe
: Click here for the Deda website

MORE
: Visit the website of Mind, the mental health charity
: Read The Winter's Tale online
: Listen to a radio production of The Winter's Tale
: Join our Sharing Shakespeare Facebook group

1623 and QUAD present
Digital Shakespeare
EDUCATION WORKSHOPS 
#1623learning  

Available throughout the year
QUAD, Market Place, Cathedral Quarter, Derby DE1 3AS

Workshops for all Key Stages and post-16 education

"The brightest heaven of invention"
: Henry V

Bring your class over to QUAD to take part in a fun interactive workshop that brings together energetic live performance and dazzling digital art.

You and your class with will work with an actor from 1623, QUAD’s award-winning resident theatre company, and a digital artist to explore a scene from a Shakespeare play, create digital scenery inspired by the scene and perform it in the digital environment that you have created.

1623 and Derby Theatre present
Shakespeare Night
WORKSHOP ON MEASURE FOR MEASURE
#1623participation  

Friday 29th January 2016 
7.30-9.30pm at Derby Theatre, St Peter's Quarter, Derby DE1 2NF  

A participatory workshop for everyone 

"The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?"
: Angelo

Explore the plot, characters and themes of Measure for Measure - Shakespeare's passionate exploration of vice and virtue - through activities run by 1623 participation coordinator Shane Lynch. 

Shakespeare Night is for everyone, from absolute beginners to seasoned Shakespeareans, from actors and students to artists and theatre-goers, from young people and families to amateur theatre-makers. Workshops are monthly and we look at a different Shakespeare play each time. Click here for the full Shakespeare Night programme.

MORE
: Read Measure for Measure online
: Listen to a radio production of the play
: Check out the monthly programme of Shakespeare Night workshops

1623 and QUAD present
Animating Shakespeare
EDUCATION WORKSHOPS
#1623learning  

Available throughout the year
QUAD, Market Place, Cathedral Quarter, Derby DE1 3AS

Workshops for all Key Stages and post-16 education

"O, brave new world!"
: The Tempest

Excite your class with Shakespeare by combining energetic drama with fun animation.

Animating Shakespeare consists of two related half-day workshops run by QUAD and 1623 theatre company

Workshop 1 : DRAMA AND STORYBOARDING (2.5 hours at school/college or QUAD). Theatre games and activities based on a Shakespeare play of your choice facilitated by 1623 to explore the play’s plot, language, characters and themes; by the end of the workshop your class will produce some basic storyboard ideas to tell the story of the play, or part of it, or a new story inspired by it, to use in the next workshop

Workshop 2 : ANIMATION AND SCREENING (2.5 hours at QUAD). Reviewing storyboards from the first workshop before transforming them into short animations with a QUAD associate artist by creating characters and backdrops to set the scene before using simple animation techniques; all animations will be screened at the end of the workshop and sent to you via web transfer after the workshop

1623 and Royal & Derngate Theatres present
Ophelia's Garden
YOUTH THEATRE PRODUCTION
#1623training  

Saturdays 13 and 20 February 2016 
5.30-6pm at the Royal & Derngate, Guildhall Road, Northampton NN1 1DP  

A new production with R&D Young Company 

"My father is my lord, my life, my keeper"
: Patriarchal Oath

In the not-too-distant future, the government revives an old law that makes young people the legal property of their fathers. 

Ophelia is banned from going out with Hamlet. So she invites her friends - also in relationships forbidden by their fathers - to declare their love in a peaceful protest among the flowers and herbs of her garden. But will it make a difference?

MORE
: Visit the Royal & Derngate website
: Find out more about R&D Young Company 
: Follow us on Twitter
: Like us on Facebook

1623 and Deda present
Shakespeare's Mind
DISCUSSION ON HAMLET
#1623participation  

Wednesday 17 February 2016 
6-8pm at CUBE Cafe, Deda, Derby DE1 3GU

A participatory discussion for everyone 

"My wit's diseased"
: Hamlet

Explore the mind of Hamlet by reading and discussing his speeches and scenes in Shakespeare's play.

Shakespeare's Mind is a series of public discussions that consider mental health issues at work in a range of Shakespeare's characters.

BOOKING DETAILS
: No need to book
: Just turn up at Deda's CUBE Cafe
: Click here for the Deda website

MORE
: Visit the website of Mind, the mental health charity
: Join our Sharing Shakespeare Facebook group

1623 and Derby Theatre present
Shakespeare Night
WORKSHOP ON MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
#1623participation   

Friday 26 February 2016 
7.30-9.30pm at Derby Theatre, St Peter's Quarter, Derby DE1 2NF  

A participatory workshop for everyone 

"Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably"
: Benedick to Beatrice

Explore the plot, characters and themes of Much Ado About Nothing - one of Shakespeare's best-loved comedies - through activities run by 1623 participation coordinator Shane Lynch. 

Shakespeare Night is for everyone, from absolute beginners to seasoned Shakespeareans, from actors and students to artists and theatre-goers, from young people and families to amateur theatre-makers. Workshops are monthly and we look at a different Shakespeare play each time. Click here for the full Shakespeare Night programme.

MORE
: Flick through our Much Ado About Nothing booklet
: Read the play online with the Folger Library
: Listen to a radio production of the play
: Check out the monthly programme of Shakespeare Night workshops

1623 and University of Nottingham present
Same Love Shakespeare
LGBTQ WORKSHOP
#1623participation   

Wednesday 2 March 2016 
7-9pm at University of Nottingham (venue to be confirmed)

A participatory workshop for everyone 

"Stony limits cannot hold love out"
: Romeo

Try on a costume, pick up a script and act out love scenes with 1623 theatre company, which is all about seeing Shakespeare differently.

Same Love Shakespeare is an LGBTQ workshop to celebrate the diversity of love in a range of Shakespeare's plays in a safe and welcoming environment.

1623, University of Leicester and The Lost Boys present
Richard III Does Battle
WORKSHOPS AT BOSWORTH BATTLEFIELD
#1623learning  

Thursday 3 March 2016 
All day at Bosworth Battlefield

A pair of workshops that explore verbal and physical combat

"Fight, gentlemen of England; fight, bold yeomen!"
: Richard III

We head to the historical site of the Battle of Bosworth to workshop the battle speeches in Shakespeare's Richard III with first-year undergraduates from the University of Leicester.

Following our workshop, the students will learn an armed combat sequence with The Lost Boys, before performing their speeches and the battle on Bosworth Field, where Richard III was killed by the Earl of Richmond in 1485.

MORE
: Visit the Bosworth Battlefield website
: Find out more about the University of Leicester 
: Watch us on YouTube 

1623, British Council and Barefeet Theatre present
A Zambian Night's Dream
WORKSHOPS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
#1623participation   

Wednesday 9 to Friday 18 March 2016 
Daily with Barefeet Theatre in Lusaka, Zambia

A series of workshops with former street children 

"I have had a most rare vision, I have had a dream"
: Bottom

We join Barefeet Theatre, one of Zambia's most vibrant and exciting theatre companies, as part of the British Council's Shakespeare Lives project to mark the 400th anniversary of the playwright's death

Our artistic director Ben Spiller works with Barefeet's resident director Taonga Tembo and a fantastic group of young actors to explore A Midsummer Night's Dream through voice, movement, acrobatics and dance in a series of workshops. Barefeet will then go on to rehearse their production for performance in April.

MORE
: Visit Barefeet Theatre's website
: Check us out on Instagram 
: Watch us on YouTube 

1623 and Derby Theatre present
Shakespeare Night
WORKSHOP ON CORIOLANUS
#1623participation   

Friday 18 March 2016 
7.30-9.30pm at Derby Theatre, St Peter's Quarter, Derby DE1 2NF  

A participatory workshop for everyone 

"Look upon the wounds his body bears"
: Menenius Agrippa

Explore the plot, characters and themes of Coriolanus - one of Shakespeare's most political plays - through activities run by 1623 participation coordinator Shane Lynch. 

Shakespeare Night is for everyone, from absolute beginners to seasoned Shakespeareans, from actors and students to artists and theatre-goers, from young people and families to amateur theatre-makers. Workshops are monthly and we look at a different Shakespeare play each time. 

MORE
: Read Coriolanus online with the Folger Library
: Listen to a radio production of the play
: Check out the monthly programme of Shakespeare Night workshops

1623 and The British Council present
Twelfth Night in Botswana
WORKSHOPS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
#1623learning   

Sunday 20 to Thursday 24 March 2016 
Daily in secondary schools across Botswana

A series of workshops with students and teachers 

"If music be the food of love, play on"
: Orsino

We join students and teachers to explore Twelfth Night, as part of the British Council's Shakespeare Lives project to mark the 400th anniversary of the playwright's death

Our artistic director Ben Spiller runs theatre workshops in several schools across Botswana to bring Twelfth Night to life through fun drama games and activities

MORE
: Visit the Shakespeare Lives website
: Check us out on Instagram 
: Watch us on YouTube