Ready, Set ... Shakespeare!
SSDS students perform scenes from 'Macbeth'
by Hinda Mandell, SSDS '94
The Jewish Advocate
March 16, 2007
The goal is to get about 30 students to perform Shakespeare after a single 45-minute rehearsal. Is it mission impossible for these fourth-graders at Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston? Not with Shakespeare and Company actors leading the charge.
On March 8, students at Jewish day schools in the area received a crash course in the 16th century playwright through a Bureau of Jewish Education program. Minutes before the energetic kids stormed into the gym for the event, members of the Lenox-based theater group said that youngsters have a natural affinity to Shakespeare that adults three times their age find inaccessible.
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