"Taking part in the Festival has been truly life-changing."

In the past year more than 10,000 students from schools across the UK took part in Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation’s programmes and had the opportunity to take to the stage, be seen in a different light and be given the chance to shine.

For these young people, participating in a Shakespeare production at school brings the opportunity to empathise and connect with new characters, to explore extraordinary worlds different to their lived experience and, importantly, to build essential skills needed for life through a process that is unlike the day-to-day of the classroom.

Here's the story of our year.

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