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Fall Festival of Shakespeare
November 18, 2018 @ 12:00 pm - 9:00 pm
$20 – $30The Fall Festival of Shakespeare is a non-competitive region-wide collaboration between Portland Playhouse and area middle and high schools. The Festival is a spectacular theatrical event, in part because student actors connect well to Shakespeare; they understand the passion, the large stakes, and the disaster. High school and middle school is not unlike an Elizabethan Tragedy.
The students are not only performers in the festival, but a large and vocal component of the audience. They are most active and vibrant theatre patrons you will ever encounter. They “oooh” and “ahhh”; call out “Oh no she didn’t”; scream and laugh. It’s the closest thing we have to how an Elizabethan audience at Shakespeare’s Globe might have reacted. It’s an unforgettable experience for the students involved, and an engaging cultural phenomenon for everyone to witness.
Performance Block One
12:00 -4:00 pm
Arts & Communication Magnet Academy – Much Ado About Nothing
Fort Vancouver High School – Henry V
Metropolitan Learning Center – Twelfth Night
Performance Block Two
6:00 -9:00 pm
Harriet Tubman Middle School – Hamlet
Da Vinci Middle School- The Tempest
Jefferson High School – Closing Piece
Reverance
Please note: Schools may not perform in the order they are listed in their specified performance block. Tickets are available for $20 per performance block or $30 Festival Pass to all performances.
All seating is general admission.
[from the Portland’5 website]