Fall Festival of Shakespeare

The Fall Festival of Shakespeare is a non-competitive region-wide collaboration between Portland Playhouse and area high schools.
The Festival is a spectacular theatrical event, in part because student actors connect well to Shakespeare; they get the passion, large stakes, disaster…high school is not unlike an Elizabethan Tragedy. But the biggest surprise is the creation of an electric and fully engaged audience during the Festival. This Festival audience is the most active and alive theatre audience you will ever encounter. They “oooh” and “ahhh”; call out “Oh no she didn’t”; scream and laugh. It’s the closest thing we have to how an Elizabethan audience at Shakespeare’s Globe might have reacted. It’s an unforgettable experience for the students involved, and an engaging cultural phenomenon for everyone to witness.

2012 Fall festival participants

• Franklin High School!!!  will be performing "As You Like It"
• Grant High School
• Trillium Charter School
• De La Salle
• Ridgefield
• Fort Vancouver
• King Elementary

All performances will take place the first weekend of November at the Winningstad Theatre in downtown Portland.
This year’s performance schedule has yet to be announced. Stay tuned!

Questions? Visit the Portland Playhouse website: http://portlandplayhouse.org/fall-festival-of-shakespeare

Email info@portlandplayhouse.org or call our office at 503-488-5822