With support from the California Arts Council, SHAKESPEARE-SAN FRANCISCO’s Shakespeare on Tour will bring a professional, 1-hour production of Comedy of Errors to 140 CA schools, including 40 underserved middle and high schools. The tour presents an interactive performance (entirely Shakespeare’s original text) in an accessible school assembly format. The program also partners with teachers to provide a curriculum guide indexed to State Standards, a brief talkback, an a 1-hour Playshop.
Free Shakespeare in the Park each year presents a professional production of Shakespeare in five public park venues, reaching up to 30,000 Bay Area citizens. The Festival also engages communities through five arts education programs: -Shakespeare on Tour performs an abridged Shakespeare play at 150 schools, libraries and community centers in the Bay Area and all over the state. -Over 300 youth ages 4-18 attend Bay Area Shakespeare Camps to explore Shakespeare’s plays and also learn the skills needed to perform them. -Tailor-Made Residencies connect Festival teaching artists with classroom teachers for in-school theater enrichment tailored to their students. -Midnight Shakespeare provides a challenging theater residency program for over 100 under-served youth in school settings in Oakland, San Francisco and San Jose.