Drama workshops for Shakepeare Week and Book Week
✓ Reception - Year 6
✓ Led by a professional actor-facilitator
✓ Available throughout the UK
✓ Delivered in your school hall
Experience Shakespeare’s plays through drama, using the skills and techniques of professional theatre
Shakespeare’s plays were written to be performed! Our Shakespeare workshops use drama to give children an in-depth discovery of our greatest storyteller’s most famous plays.
For Book Week and Shakespeare Week 2025, we can bring your whole school together to perform an abridged version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream or Macbeth in just one day, or work class-by-class with our ever-popular ‘Shakespeare Explorer’ workshops to investigate the characters, themes and story of A Midsummer Night’s Dream or The Tempest.
With the guidance of an expert actor-facilitator, children develop their collaborative and analytical skills as they step into the world of your chosen play through drama. By taking creative ownership of the play they gain a newfound confidence with Shakespeare that they can carry with them outside the classroom and in future.
Developed in the heart of London’s West End, our Shakespeare workshops have hundreds of five-star reviews and are available for Primary Schools throughout the UK.
For more play options at other times of year please visit our year-round Shakespeare workshops page.
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Abigail Rosser
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Our ever-popular Shakespeare Explorer workhops sessions are great for any number of classes, and encourage children to form their own creative responses to your chosen play.
- We work with children in their usual classes from Reception to Year 6.
- Sessions are 35 - 40 minutes for Reception, 35 - 60 minutes for KS1 and 50 - 90 minutes for KS2.
- We can work with up to six classes per day, or up to five KS2 classes.
- To work with fewer classes we can visit for just an afternoon or morning session. To work with more than six classes we can visit across multiple days.
- For two or three form entry schools we work across multiple days.
- To cover the material we need at least three classes from KS2.
- At the end of the day, children come together to perform their section of the play to each other, creating a full performance with music and narration.
- To explore and develop a deep understanding of the story of the chosen play.
- To develop empathy and understanding by inhabiting the lives and physicality of the characters.
- To explore the rhythm and imagery of Shakespeare’s poetry and prose.
- To gain confidence through play and performance.
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Get a flavour of the West End in Schools experience with our new workshop highlights video.
During the World Book Day and Shakespeare Week period (24 Feb - 30 March 2025) we will be running workshops based on our specially chosen plays. For workshops at other times of year, please visit our year-round Shakespeare workshops page.
Play Options
Shakespeare Today
Whole school or 5/6 KS2 classes
Shakespeare Today
Whole school or 5/6 KS2 classes
Shakespeare Explorer
Reception, KS1, KS2
Shakespeare Explorer
Reception, KS1, KS2
