School Visit Adaptations
Photo by Jenny Graham
David Eric Thompson and David Salsa performing a scene from Hamlet.
Have Shakespeare, Will Travel
By Scott Kaiser
Five Shakespearean Adaptations for Three Actors
From the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s School Visit Program
These five Shakespearean adaptations—one tragedy, one history, one comedy, and one romance—were created for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's School Visit Program.
They were performed in high school gymnasiums, auditoriums, cafeterias, assembly halls, and classrooms in places like Weaverville, California; Kenai, Alaska; Kailua Kona, Hawaii; and Roswell, New Mexico.
They require only three actors, and run no more than forty minutes. They call for absolutely no scenery, and only the few costumes or props than can fit into a small trunk.
They were created not by one person, but by the collective efforts and combined imaginations of a team—an ensemble of three actors and a director, working from scratch in an empty space.
The following are provided here in PDF format:
- Introduction
- Othello
- King Henry the Fourth, Part One
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- The Winter’s Tale
- Titus Andronicus
For more information about the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's School
Visit Program, click
here for the OSF website.