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Applications now open for Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank: Romeo and Juliet

We're starting the new term with a bang as we open applications for our free-to-access tickets for Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank: Romeo and Juliet. 26,000 free tickets are available for state secondary schools in London and Birmingham to experience this dynamic 90-minute production of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy, with thousands more subsidised tickets available soon for schools nationwide. 

Don't miss your chance to book our 'joyous' ★★★★ (Time Out), 'exuberant' ★★★★ (Daily Telegraph) As You Like It which will be running until 29 October plus book our Lively Action workshops to get our best rates for 2023. And celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse with us this winter.

Lastly, we still have plenty of space in our new CPDs for 2024! Find out more below.

We can't wait to welcome you and your students to Shakespeare's Globe.

In this edition:
⭕Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank
⭕Lively Action Workshops
⭕CPDs
⭕See As You Like It at the Globe.
⭕ Winter 2022/23

Apply for free-to-access tickets to Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank: Romeo and Juliet.

We are delighted to announce that applications for free-to-access tickets for London and Birmingham academically non-selective state secondary schools, plus accompanying student workshops and CPD sessions, are now open!

In 2024, Shakespeare’s famous tragedy comes to life on stage in a dynamic 90-minute production, created especially for young people and designed to support the curriculum. Performances will run from 29 February – 27 March 2024.

Applications for free-to-access tickets are open until 22 September. Applications for subsidised tickets for all other schools will open on 2 October.

Schools will also have access to our dedicated Romeo and Juliet microsite which hosts a wealth of teaching resources and is updated throughout the school year.

Stream our 2023 production of Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank production of The Tempest into your classroom now.

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Register now and have access until 22 December. This stream features integrated British Sign Language, enhancing the poetry, richness and beauty of Shakespeare’s language. Available for free to all schools nationwide.

Lively Action.

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Whether it's starting a Shakespeare unit with a bang, or providing a bonding experience for your new class, a workshop at Shakespeare's Globe can support your curriculum as well as your climate for learning.

Focused around activities that build trust, team-work and confidence, Lively Action workshops are a great way for pupils to get to know each other and feel more relaxed in their new class. Our sessions are tailored for the age group you bring and can be focussed on a play of your choice, providing the perfect learning opportunity for KS2, KS3, GCSE or A Level.

Don't Miss These CPDs.

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Teaching Othello at A-Level.

Join this Continuous Professional Development session and equip yourself with tools to understand Shakespeare’s powerful tragedy Othello to enhance your teaching in the classroom.

Aimed at Key Stage 5.

10.00am, 25 January 2024.

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Teaching Othello and Anti-Racism.

Join this Continuous Professional Development session to equip yourself with new skills to build an anti-racist approach to teaching Shakespeare’s powerful tragedy, Othello, in the classroom.

Aimed at secondary school teachers.

10.00am, 6 February 2024.

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Teaching Othello and Gender.

Join this Continuous Professional Development session and equip yourself with tools to build an approach to teaching Othello that explores Shakespeare’s powerful tragedy through the lens of gender.

Aimed at secondary school teachers.

10.00am, 29 February 2024.

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Enhance your teaching of Macbeth.

Empower your teaching of Macbeth with a Continuing Professional Development session focused on Key Stage 4. Learn creative techniques to engage students with the play’s context, key themes and analysis of this summer’s production. You’ll finish by watching a performance of Macbeth in the Globe and receive a complimentary programme and resource pack.

7 October

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Teaching The Duchess of Malfi.

Join this Continuous Professional Development session and equip yourself with tools and an in-depth understanding of John Webster’s seminal revenge tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi, to enhance your teaching in the classroom.

Aimed at Key Stage 5.

10.00am, 1 March 2024.

Explore Key Stage specific CPDs.

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CPDs for Key Stage 3

Learn how to use practical rehearsal room techniques to enliven and deepen your student's understanding of a play, looking at context, themes and imagery.

Plays covered:

Twelfth Night
A Midsummer Night's Dream

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CPDs for Key Stage 4

Develop your toolkit for support your students through their exams and discover practical ways to explore the themes and language of the play.

Plays covered:

Romeo and Juliet
The Merchant of Venice
Macbeth

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CPDs for Key Stage 5

Enhance your student's understanding of the plays with practical, rehearsal room techniques and ways to develop their critical thinking skills.

Plays covered:

Doctor Faustus
Measure For Measure
The Taming of the Shrew

Don't miss As You Like It.

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Celebrate love, friendship and freedom.

Join us for a ‘joyous’ ★★★★ (Time Out), ‘exuberant’ ★★★★ (Daily Telegraph) celebration of love, friendship and freedom in Shakespeare’s As You Like It, now playing in the Globe Theatre until 29 October.

Our Winter Season.

[IMAGE] The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse 10th Anniversary Season including Ghosts, Othello and The Duchess of Malfi

Celebrate ten years of London’s only candlelit theatre, the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, with a season of intensely intimate and powerfully compelling drama, all told by the beautifully beguiling glow of candlelight.