Shakespeare: Off the Page and Onto the Stage
Prices and Availability
Play History
Montana Shakespeare in the Schools
1993 - Shakespearean Scenes
1994 - Shakespeare’s Supernatural
1995 - Shakespeare’s Supernatural &
Shakespeare in Disguise (2 tours)
1996 - Coming of Age
1997 - No tour
1998 - Macbeth - Spring and Fall tours
1999 - A Midsummer Night's Dream
2000 - Romeo and Juliet
2001 - As You Like It
2002 - Julius Caesar
2003 - Twelfth Night
2004 - A Midsummer Night's Dream
2005 - The Merchant of Venice
2006 - The Comedy of Errors
2007 - Othello
2008- Much Ado About Nothing
2009- Romeo and Juliet
2010- Twelfth Night
2011- As You Like It
The SIS tour will begin booking in May 2012 for fall
2012. The tour runs from October 12 through
December 21, 2012.The price for the SIS package
is $800 per school.
This includes:
*75 minute production of
Macbeth
*A Q&A Session following
the performance with entire
acting company.
*Up to four workshops led by
members of the acting company.
To save a spot for your school, contact
Susan Dickerson at susan@montana.edu or
(406)994-3303
Stage Combat in Theater & Film
(How the effect "affects")
Maximum Size: 40
This workshop works on two levels to meet
the needs of today's students. It provides an
active introduction to stage combat by
emphasizing basic technique, safety and
combat in performances. It also focuses on
how violence in plays, movies, and television
affects us as members of the audience as well
as in our daily lives.
There are two sides to stage combat, the
technical and the "effectual" The technical
aspect is what makes the actor's strike look
real. The “effectual” aspect is what makes
the strike important to the telling of the story,
leaving the audience with a specific
impression. We will discuss and explore
both of these facets and the effects that staged
combat has on us as a society.
Two “Relevance Workshops”
Shakespeare may be long gone, but his ideas,
stories, and the themes of the plays are
eternal. With this in mind, each year SIS
creates two different workshops that take a
specific theme of the play and have students
explore how that theme affects not only the
characters in the play, but also their own lives.
Through a combination of activities and
discussion items, Shakespeare is very much
alive and well in these relevance workshops.
Custom Workshop
Several of the schools that SIS visits are
working on a play or scene when we arrive. If
you would like to use one workshop slot to
have two of our professional actors coach
your students in a particular scene or scenes,
we would be happy to customize that
workshop time to your specific needs.
Just Speak English!
(Decoding Shakespeare)
Maximum Size: 35
Actors put on a workshop for middle school students.
When our youth get exposed in positive
ways outside of this community, they gain a
sense of empowerment.
Teacher, Box Elder School, Box Elder, MT
Workshops
This workshop is designed to help take the
fear out of reading Shakespeare by
familiarizing students with the use of verse
and dramatic devices. Utilizing specifically
designed exercises, students will learn the
difference between verse and prose;
investigate Shakespeare's use of strange
words, dramatic sounds and often-used
forms of language such as antithesis,
repetition, alliteration and rhythm. All
students will have the opportunity to speak
some Shakespearean verse lines.
A scene from 2011’s SIS production As You Like It.
There was love, humor and
excitement!
Student, Alberton High
Reserve a date for your school or organization today. Contact Susan at susan@montana.edu or (406) 994-3303
Montana Shakespeare in the Schools
Although Montana Shakespeare in the
Parks has been playing to outdoor
audiences in the summer all over Montana,
Wyoming and southern Idaho since 1973,
we are equally proud of the progress our
educational outreach program has made
since the first fall tour in 1993.
In less than a decade, we have grown from
a two-actor tour that performed scenes with
very limited costumes and scenery to an
eight member professional company that
performs a 75-minute production of a
complete Shakespearean play complete
with ornate costumes and scenery as well as
a Q&A session between actors and students
and a full complement of workshops
following the performance.
SIS acting company enjoys a lunch with students
Many of our students were engaged and
motivated at a level I've never seen. Their
energy was used in a positive manner and I
saw smiles on the faces of students who
rarely smile.
Teacher, Lame Deer High School
Macbeth, MSIP 2008
Fall Tour 2012
“Double, double, toil and trouble.”
The 2012 Shakespeare in the Schools
production will be Macbeth. Macbeth is one
of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies and
explores what happens when ambition runs
amok.
NEA: Shakespeare for a New Generation
Actor Peter Eli
Johnson explains
the 7 Ages of
Man Contest
Actor Christopher Peltier heads up a verse workshop with students.
This play rocks my socks.
Student at Sentinel High School
Montana Shakespeare in the Parks
Shakespeare in the Schools
P.O. Box 174120
Bozeman, MT 59717-4120
(406) 994-3303
Learning is but an adjunct to ourself,
And where we are our learning likewise is.
~Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act IV, Scene 3
Shakespeare in the Schools and Montana
Shakespeare in the Parks are outreach programs of
Montana State University and sponsored in part by:
This fall marks the 20th season that this
unique touring program will bring a live
Shakespearean play and workshops directly
to middle schools and high schools. Of the
48 schools visited last year, the company
performed on or near six of Montana’s
seven Indian reservations and 41% of the
schools were located in communities with a
population less than 1,000; the smallest
being Bainville, Montana, pop. 155.
We are also pleased to announce that,
once again, SIS has been selected as a
recipient of the National Endowment for the
Arts: Shakespeare for a New Generation
Phase 5.
This grant will be used Brought to you in part by:
to support salaries and
travel costs, developing
workshops that apply
specifically to Macbeth
and will allow us to
increase the number of
schools we are able to
visit in Montana,
Wyoming and Idaho.