School Workshops with Theatre 63
"I felt less shy and awkward. I had fun speaking and acting with the others."
The Workshops
The Company has, for the last 12 years, worked with numerous educational institutions, throughout Italy, to bring English literature off the page and onto the stage. This involves both live performances staged by our company of professional actors, as well as workshops in English dealing with a wide variety of the theatrical and non-theatrical literature that forms part of school English syllabuses.
The workshops are active and interactive, so the students will not be sitting, listening, and writing notes, but will instead be on their feet exploring the text, and bringing it to life in a performative space. Each workshop looks at plot, character, and themes to ensure the students are familiar with the whole work. Detailed textual exploration, style, motifs, character intentions, etc. are also explored.
The workshop leaders, as well as being professionally trained actors, arequalified Trinity/Cambridge English teachers.
Below is a selection of the workshops that are regularly requested. It is also possible to tailor-make a workshop around a literary work, not included in the list, that you are currently exploring with your students.
Late/Post-Modern
William Golding
Lord of the Flies
Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot
George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Animal Farm
Modern
Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
T.S. Eliot
The Waste Land
Victorian
Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Ernest
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Lewis Carroll
Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking-Glass
Romantic
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
Edgar Allan Poe
Fall of the House of Usher
Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth, Byron, Blake, Coleridge
Romantic Poetry
Restoration
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels
Renaissance
William Shakespeare
The Tragedies
Antony and Cleopatra
Hamlet
King Lear
Julius Caesar
Macbeth
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
The Comedies
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Merchant of Venice
Much Ado About Nothing
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
The Histories
Henry V
Richard III
Medieval
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
Further Information
Typically, we offer one-off, two-hour workshops, but we also organize longer projects of more than one session.
We welcome all students, regardless of any learning or physical disability (please inform us beforehand). Those who face real financial difficulty are invited to be part of the group without paying. We work with a maximum of one class at a time.
"A very worthwhile exercise for the students. We have already booked for next year"
"it helped us to create a team and was a greaty way to improve my English"
"it gave us more self-confidence, we had fun and got to know each other better"
If you need any further information, don’t hesitate to contact us
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