Linked with HSC Unit Module: Text and Human Experiences    

Honouring the text with rich, multifaceted performances this session connects students to the anomalies, paradoxes and inconsistencies in human behaviour and motivations. Between scenes we deep dive into character, Shakespeare’s language and the original context and explore how adjusting this context, playing with purpose, stylistic and grammatical features and form impacts the human experience. This session is pure gold for HSC students.

Between scene discussion learning focus:

• Context and historical background
• Appropriation
• Characterisation
• The women of the play
• Themes of racism, appearance, justice, loyalty
• Parent/child relationships
• Drawing comparisons
• Plot structure
• Shakespeare as a writer of comedy
• Shakespeare’s language styles and how they inform character and drive the story