"My kids have participated in the Shakespeare Camp for 2 years and have loved it! I am always astonished at how much they achieve in such a short period of time. The end result (the play) is always so impressive - kids acting out Shakespeare and doing it well! It always blows me away!"
Parent

We had a great 2 and 1/2 weeks learning Acting and specifically Shakespeare work. As always, we saw the kids, from ages 10 - 15,  create amazing scenes in a thoroughly enjoyable experience for all.

Morning Star Productions Youth Theater
Classes and Rehearsal/Performance for
Tales from Shakespeare

Tales from Shakespeare is a play about two kids who have put off reading their assigned, three Shakespeare plays until the night before the test. They decide to go to the city park to be inspired by the giant statue of a book of Shakespeare which stands on the stone courtyard. As they begin to cram for the test by reading Lambs' Tales from Shakespeare, the characters they are reading about step out of the giant book and begin to bring the scenes to life.
Lots of opportunity here to perform classic characters, monologues, and scenes including Puck, Juliet, Lady MacBeth, Shylock, Viola, and others.
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The students will learn basic acting technique - character work, creative movement, improvisation, voice work, and scene work.
In addition, they will be given the tools to understand and clearly express Shakespeare's early modern English. You'd be surprised what they can do in a few weeks!

Ages 10 through 18

July 8, 9, 12 - 16 and 19 - 23, 2021.
​1 - 4 pm
Acting classes, rehearsals - July 8 - 22.
Performance of Tales from Shakespeare - July 23. 

Wooded Hills Church, 777 Hwy 164, Colgate, just 5 miles west of Menomonee Falls

$100 per student, $75 - sibling

​Teacher - Mary Ellen Atwood. Mrs. Atwood received her training from UW Milwaukee and The American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco. She has been acting, directing, and teaching for four decades. She is able to take adult concepts and translate them to a level which kids can understand and embody in their artistic expression. Classes will teach basic acting skills, theater games, and how to act Shakespeare.

contact Mary Ellen Atwood:
262-781-1235
lifeoutloudtheatre@gmail.com
www.morningstarproductions.org  ​

Photos from The Comedy of Errors and A Midsummer Night's Dream