The Experience: Ten Classrooms, Ten Workshops, One Semester

In both the Fall and Spring semesters, ten classrooms (one from each school) will work with STC Teaching Artists on acting, language, and design with As You Like It in the Fall or Macbeth in the Spring as the foundation.

Each of the ten workshops will be student-centered and provide participants with the opportunity to draw personal connections, integrate elements of current cultural and social events, and take ownership of the experience.

In an effort to bring STC’s full season into the Residency curriculum, students will briefly explore the other productions presented during their semester alongside As You Like It and Macbeth.

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Festival Day at STC
The Residency culminates in a performance project that showcases what students have learned and gained from the experience. Each school group will have the opportunity to share their showcase onstage at STC and invite their families to attend. The Residency Festival Day will feature student performances, lobby displays of student work, and opportunities for schools to engage with the larger STC community. Students will also be given access to tickets to attend As You Like It or Macbeth.

STC’s Fall season features a selection of diverse works that involve storytelling through music. At the core of the Residency experience will be a new production of As You Like It set in the 1960s that blends Shakespeare’s text with the music of The Beatles. Through the Residency experience, students will explore the art of adaptation to create bold and illuminating interpretations of Shakespeare’s work. Students will also briefly explore Evita, a musical about Eva Perón’s meteoric rise to First Lady of Argentina, and Macbeth in Stride, an original piece that uses various music genres and Shakespeare’s most iconic characters to examine what it means to be an ambitious Black woman, as examples to further guide their adaptation journeys.