Throughout the year, we offer exclusively-priced student matinee performance dates available to homeschool families and co-ops. This full-day experience at the Blackfriars Playhouse includes a performance and actor talkback, lunch, and a workshop with our award-winning education team.
Much Ado About Nothing
Wednesday, March 25 | 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. >>> SOLD OUT!
Feel the joy of love won and the ache of love lost as this classic comedy makes you laugh, breaks your heart, and then somehow puts it back together again. Then, in our Making the Masquerade workshop, students will follow clues embedded in Shakespeare’s snappy dialogue to stage their own version of the famous masquerade scene in Much Ado.
FULL SCHEDULE
10:00 a.m. | Arrival at the Blackfriars Playhouse
10:30 a.m. | Much Ado about Nothing Student Matinee
12:30 p.m. | Actor Talkback
12:45 p.m. | Taco Salad Lunch Buffet
1:30 p.m. | Making the Masquerade Workshop
3:00 p.m. | Departure from the Blackfriars Playhouse
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Thursday, May 14 | 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. >>> SOLD OUT!
Enter a world of lovers and fairies in our 90-minute adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. With a mischievous Puck and the course of true love running anything but smoothly, this is a hilarious comedy with lots of heart. In our paired 90-minute workshop, join Bottom and the rest of the rude mechanicals in an exploration of the clues in Shakespeare’s text that help an actor bring characters to life! Participants will use these embedded stage directions to help them play multiple characters from Midsummer.
FULL SCHEDULE
10:00 a.m. | Arrive at the Blackfriars Playhouse
10:30 a.m. | Matinee performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
12:00 p.m. | Actor talkback
12:15 p.m. | Boxed Lunches from the Stonewall Jackson Hotel
1:30 p.m. | Words and Worlds of Midsummer Workshop
3:00 p.m. | Departure from the Blackfriars Playhouse
Questions? Contact liz.bernardo@americanshakespearecenter.com