Shakespeare’s Clowns: Age 4 - Rising Grade 1
Session 1: June 14 - 18
Session 2: July 5 - 9

Time: 9 a.m. - Noon

Tuition: $160; $300 for both sessions [register now]

This camp uses creative play and games to introduce children to the magical world of theater and the clowns of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew.

Shakespeare’s Jesters: Rising Grades 2-4
Session 1: June 21 - 25
Session 2: July 12 - 16
Time: 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Tuition: $210; $400 for both sessions [register now]

Using movement and ensemble exercises students will enter the wondrous world of Shakespeare and inhabit the colorful characters of his Twelfth Night.

Shakespeare’s Revelers: Rising Grades 4-6
Session 1: June 21 - 25
Session 2: July 19 - 23

Time: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Tuition: $235; $450 for both sessions [register now]

Focusing on voice and stage presence, students will explore the sounds and atmosphere of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

Shakespeare’s Players: Rising Grades 7-12
Session 1: June 28 - July 2
Session 2: July 26 - 30
Time: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Tuition: $260; $500 for both sessions [register now]

Students will work on monologues and scenes from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Cymbeline (OST selections for the 2010-2011 Season), as well as a sonnet, and explore Elizabethan movement and dance.

Shakespeare’s Bards: Rising Grades 7-11 who have taken Players or Bards previously
Dates: August 9 - 14

Time: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Tuition: $310 [register now]
Performance: Saturday, August 14 at 2 p.m.
Placement Audition: Saturday, July 24 from Noon - 4 p.m. or by appointment.

Students will delve deeply into Shakespeare’s verse, meter, rhyme and rhetoric to present a fully staged, abridged version of Hamlet.

Shakespeare With Heart – 1 (for First Time Participants)
Grades 7- College Freshman
Dates: Tuesday, June 21 - Friday, July 2
Performance: July 2 at Noon
Time: 9 a.m. - Noon
Tuition: $150 [register now]
This program is a collaboration between UCP of Central Florida, the Exceptional Education Department of UCF and the Orlando Shakespeare Theater to allow students with and without special needs to work together over a two-week period to produce a Shakespeare play. Because of the tremendous success of the original version of Shakespeare with Heart (now Heart-2), we are adding this program for first time participants in the program. Students from both groups work side by side in this program, with all participants being assigned a role suiting their ability. All students participate in daily voice, movement and warm-up activities before rehearsing together. The program culminates in a showcase production of scenes from a Shakespearean play.

Shakespeare With Heart – 2 (for Previous Participants)
Grades 7- College Freshman
Dates: Monday - Friday, July 12 - 23
Performance: July 23 at 7 p.m.
Time: 9 a.m. - Noon
Tuition: $150 [register now]
A placement meeting and audition will be held on Monday, June 28 at 7 p.m.
This program, which includes all of the activities of Heart-1, will lead previous participants in the program through a fully staged production of a Shakespearean play. Past programs have produced The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night and The Taming of the Shrew.

The Young Company: Rising Grades 9 - Graduating Seniors
Dates: June 14 - July 11
Time: Monday - Friday, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Performances: July 9 &10 at 7 p.m. and July 10 &11 at 2 p.m.
Audition: April 24 from 2 - 6 p.m. Call Anne Hering, Director of Training, for audition appointment and information at 407-447-1700 ext. 214.
Tuition: $425
Over a four-week period students will study aspects of Shakespearean text such as scansion, rhetoric, verse and prose, and performance clues as well as voice and movement. This year the intensive will culminate in a fully staged production of The Tempest.

For more information on this month-long intensive, click here.