Education
Your support is crucial to fulfilling the mission of our Education Department: to connect young people with Shakespeare. We work with young people between the ages of 5 and 19, their teachers, and prioritise those who don't have easy access to the RSC.
- Our Stand up for Shakespeare manifesto calls for young people to 'See It Live, Start it Earlier and Do it On Your Feet' and secured almost 15,000 signatures online with endorsements from actors, teachers, academics and people all over the world.
- Open Access education workshops and projects are delivered in all of our performance venues and target areas. Last year we worked with 30,000 young people and 2,500 teachers.
- Through our national Learning and Performance Network we are promoting and supporting creative approaches to the teaching, learning and performance of Shakespeare's plays. To date we have worked directly with 1,640 teachers and estimate that 65,000 students have benefited.
- Young People's Shakespeare productions serve as a powerful first exposure to live Shakespeare with last year's YPS productions of The Comedy of Errors and Hamlet playing to sell-out houses, following a schools tour.
- Our online learning resources are expanding with each play we stage, offering anyone the opportunity to access director's talks, rehearsal room practices, performance histories and a wealth of additional material.
- We have piloted RSC teaching methods for Shakespeare internationally through partnerships with Ohio State University and Melbourne University and will take our work stateside when the company visits New York in 2011.
RSC education will also feature prominently in the World Shakespeare Festival in 2012 (part of the London 2012 Olympics). The Festival will empower young people at home and abroad through ownership of Shakespeare and the challenge and fun of performance and will collaborate with the huge non-professional theatre movement in the UK.
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RSC Education is generously supported by The Polonsky Foundation
The Learning and Performance Network is generously supported by the
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
London Education Partner 2011: The Nomura Charitable Trust
Young People's Shakespeare is generously supported by RSC Friends