Shakespeare Workshops

Of the ten or so productions a year produced at YSP, usually at least two are workshops.

The workshop-format, which YSP started using in 1998, arranges a collection of uncut scenes from the Shakespeare plays.  Sometimes a Workshop focuses on a single play, but more often the scenes are selected according to a theme.

Read more about performance workshops.

Mechanical

Focused Workshops 

YSP's popular Focused Workshops are dedicated to basic aspects of Shakespeare’s craft, such as understanding, scanning, and using the rhythm of Shakespeare's verse to let him "direct" us; how to conceive, phrase, and deliver his beautiful long speeches; how to work "with" him to understand and create his small characters, etc.

Read more about workshops on Shakespeare's language.

Puck

Shakespeare Plays

MothMidsummer Night's DreamTitania
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Summer 2010

The Winter's Tale—2005

Sixteen of Shakespeare’s thirty-seven plays currently appear in YSP’s regular repertoire; uncut scenes from another twelve are represented in the workshops. The following plays are performed full-length in a cycle that usually includes four per year, two in the summer, one in the winter for home schoolers that's repeated with weekend rehearsals the following fall, and a veterans' challenge production:YSP logo

Much AdoBeatriceMuch Ado
Much Ado About Nothing, Summer, 2010