South Africa: Learners With Disabilities Steal the Show At Shakespeare Festival

South Africa: Learners With Disabilities Steal the Show At Shakespeare Festival

Shakespeare School Festival runs until 31 May at the District Six Homecoming Centre in Cape Town

Learners with disabilities steal the show at Shakespeare festival

Shakespeare School Festival runs until 31 May at the District Six Homecoming Centre in Cape Town

Learners with Disabilities Steal the Show at Shakespeare Festival

For the first time, learners from a special needs school in Brackenfell took to the stage at the 15th Shakespeare Schools Festival held in Cape Town over the weekend.   Cape Town, South Africa (22 May 2025) — The crowd cheered after the Paarl School for the Neural Disabled performance of an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the District Six Homecoming Centre. Performers included learners with physical disabilities,…

The Most Magical Place In London: Allie Esiri on Shakespeare in Regent’s Park

Tell us about Shakespeare in Regents Park. It’s a really fun evening where we bring many of the best moments in Shakespeare to life. For example, we have Romeo and Juliet’s balcony scene, the Macbeths (Damian Lewis and Kate Fleetwood!) plotting to murder the king and the course of true love not running at all smoothly in some very funny extracts from A Midsummer Night’s Dream.James Phoon (Bridgerton and the recent Jamie Lloyd Shakespeare’s) and …