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Shakespearience presents the play Hamlet
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April 2, 2016 |
by Mary Fioravanti
The Idaho Shakespeare Festival visited Bonners
Ferry High School on Monday. Wherever the cast
goes they perform a Shakespeare play in what is
known as "Shakespearience." As you can tell by
the name, it is the "Shakespeare experience."
Shakespearience actors and actresses visit BFHS
every year. Every year on the same day as the
performance, the 8th grade move-up day has been
scheduled in order to give the 8th graders the
wonderful opportunity to catch some Shakespeare
magic themselves while visiting the high school.
Although the tour comes to Bonners Ferry every
year, actors and actresses will transfer within
the cast and may not always be the same,
providing a new and refreshing experience each
year.
Each year the Idaho Shakespeare Festival
alternates between comedies and tragedies the
Shakespeare plays they perform. This year
Shakespearience performed the more serious
tragedy Hamlet, but last year they put
on The Comedy of Errors, which was very
funny for the audience. They also make it a
point to offer drama workshops to any interested
students an hour before they show. This is an
enjoyable tradition, and is also very helpful to
those looking for a career in acting.
The Shakespearience cast always performs in such
a way that makes the plays fun and interesting.
There are generally only six Shakespearience
cast members that will go on tour at a time,
which means just six actors performing multiple
characters. They do a really great job jumping
from character to character, and also making the
impossible Shakespearean language easy to
understand for the audience.
They do not change Shakespeare's plots much,
they only change your perception of how they
work. For example, they will use modern clothes
with an old English style and have some modern
props, but they will keep the language of the
"thees" and "thous." This reminds us that people
still have the same conflicts now that they did
over 400 years ago, and we see how we are not
that different from those who lived in other
times.
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