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2011-12 Productions

Registration Packet

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YSP Parent Guide

Silent Auction

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Performing soon

Spring Workshop, "Shakespeare One-on-One: Great Two Person Scenes" Performs May 19-20

Dramatic Reading of James Thurber's "13 Clocks" Performs June 8-10

Shaw's Caesar & Cleopatra
Performs June 15-17 & 22-24

See Current for performance details

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The Young Shakespeare Players (YSP), a non-profit theater program founded in 1980, performs full-length, uncut original works by Shakespeare, G.B Shaw, and Charles Dickens, with actors 7 & up. There are no auditions or rejections. Read more About Us, learn about YSP's unique Materials & Methods, find Upcoming Productions, and participate at YSP!

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YSP News

• Our Silent Auction is now closed. Thanks to everyone who bid on items and donated to the auction!
• We are proud to announce the opening of our very first YSP chapter outside Madison, in Brattleboro, VT. YSP East–New England will inspire young people in the region to fall in love with the works of Shakespeare! Read more & register.
• Registration materials for spring & summer productions, including King Lear and As You Like It, are now available. Dates are here, along with YSP's other 2011-12 productions. (Dates are also in the registration packet.)
• Intros to productions coming up: May 14, 5-8 pm, our first summer production, King Lear; June 11, 5-8 pm, our second summer production, As You Like It.
• Read theater critic Damien Jacques' December, 2011, "My most inspirational theater person," a new article about YSP!
• YSP's Annual Membership Drive is over, but you can still join YSP! Read more about becoming a member here, and use our PayPal Donate button to do that!
• Two Shakespeare plays have been added to YSP's repertoire this year: King Henry IV, Part 2 and As You Like It! King Henry IV, Part 2 will be performed together with King Henry IV, Part 1 in August, 2012!
• What does an original YSP production look like? Here's a short discussion and footage of "Shakespeare's Show of Shows: Great Comic Scenes from Shakespeare and Sid Caesar," performed March, 2012!
  
  
  
  
• And here's a scene from the workshop, the popular "Beethoven's Fifth," in which a married couple argues to music!

• The Actor's (and Intelligent Reader's) Guide to the Language of Shakespeare, by Richard DiPrima, was published in 2010. Read more about the book that developed out of YSP's series of focused workshops on the language of Shakespeare!
  
• YSP performed its first original production in 2011: a project of similar scope to the Royal Shakespeare Company's 10-hour Nicholas Nickleby—this one bringing to life Dickens’s great final completed novel, Our Mutual Friend. Link to the Directors' Blog for Our Mutual Friend, read more about Dickens at YSP, and watch clips from the productions. Listen to directors & actors discuss Our Mutual Friend (& perform scenes!) on WORT's Radio Literature (June 23, 2011). Read about the play in the Wisconsin State Journal (October 9, 2011).
  
  

Richard DiPrima explains what a YSP play looks like. Footage from The Tempest (2007),
video by Brad Parkel.