FREE 9-minute Talk:  Shakespeare in Kindergarten, or Let Rome Fall
a radical proposal for a radical time by TSC Founder and Producing Artistic Director Dan McCleary
If our country’s education system increasingly feels to you as if it is manifest exclusively in rubrics, tests, and computer software, you are not alone.  “Learning” has a varied definition in our classrooms. Articulating feelings, playing, creating, and personal discovery can seem diminished or even exempted from education. Shakespeare’s plays were written for those who could not read; loved to play; needed visual and aural focus; were hungry for words; and were curious about their genesis, what to do in the face of violence and love, and how to speak truth to power.  By formally adapting Shakespeare’s plays into our core curriculum starting in Kindergarten, we might rebuild our humanist culture and prevent a second fall of Rome in America.