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Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation is delighted to stand centre stage and announce that registration is OPEN for our Autumn 2024 – Spring 2025 Theatre Festival. The world’s largest youth Shakespeare Festival – a fully supported programme made by teachers, for teachers - is returning to venues across the United Kingdom and we want your school to join us.
Each year, we support thousands of young people and their teachers to reimagine Shakespeare on professional theatre stages up and down the country. A project where YOU are the actors; YOU are the technicians; and YOU are the theatre-makers. The unique power of Shakespeare’s stories is in your hands. Can you see your school rising to the challenge? (Think you hate Shakespeare? We are there every step of the way to make these stories resonate with you, your young people and your community.)
You get a whole-day teacher CPD, half-day in-school workshops, a license to use our playscripts that were born out of the BBC Shakespeare: The Animated Tales, and a magical chance to perform your reimagined story on a professional theatre stage alongside other local schools. This is a unique opportunity to combine the incredible educational benefits and the exhilarating thrill of the live performance through the Festival.
Like the sound of that? See below for a list* of theatres that we currently have pencilled for our Autumn 2024 – Spring 2025 Theatre Festival:
Autumn 2024
| London | ||
| The Exchange | Twickenham | |
| artsdepot | Barnet | |
| The Broadway | Barking | |
| Midlands | ||
| Leicester Curve | Leicester | |
| Cornerstone Arts Centre | Didcot | |
| South East | ||
| South Hill Park Arts Centre | Bracknell | |
| The Hawth | Crawley | |
| Palace Theatre | Southend | |
| The Old Market | Hove | |
| The Spotlight | Hoddesdon | |
| The Woodville | Gravesend | |
| Leatherhead Theatre | Leatherhead | |
| The Stag | Sevenoaks | |
| New Theatre Royal | Portsmouth | |
| South West | ||
| Wyvern Theatre | Swindon | |
| East | ||
| The Apex | Bury St Edmunds | |
| North West | ||
| Grimsby Auditorium | Grimsby | |
| The Studio, Alhambra | Bradford | |
| North & North East | ||
| Brindley Theatre | Runcorn | |
| Contact | Manchester | |
| Wales | ||
| Gwyn Hall | Neath | |
| Taliesin Arts Centre | Swansea | |
| Northern Ireland | ||
| The MAC | Belfast | |
| Scotland | ||
| Eastwood Park Theatre | Glasgow |
Spring 2025
| London | ||
| The Exchange | Twickenham | |
| artsdepot | Barnet | |
| Greenwich Theatre | Greenwich | |
| The Beck | Hayes | |
| Midlands | ||
| Leicester Curve | Leicester | |
| MAC Birmingham | Birmingham | |
| South East | ||
| South Hill Park Arts Centre | Bracknell | |
| The Hawth | Crawley | |
| Palace Theatre | Southend | |
| The Old Market | Hove | |
| The Spotlight | Hoddesdon | |
| The Woodville | Gravesend | |
| The Haymarket | Basingstoke | |
| Civic Chelmsford | Chelmsford | |
| The Stag | Sevenoaks | |
| South West | ||
| Wyvern Theatre | Swindon | |
| The Lighthouse | Poole | |
| Tivoli Theatre | Winborne | |
| East | ||
| Alive Corn Exchange | King's Lynn | |
| Cambridge Junction | Cambridge | |
| North & North East | ||
| Nothern Stage | Newcastle | |
| Grimsby Auditorium | Grimsby | |
| Civic Barnsley | Barnsley | |
| North West | ||
| Blackburn Empire | Blackburn | |
| The Carriageworks | Leeds | |
| Wales | ||
| The Riverfront | Newport |
Can’t find a venue near you? Send our friendly Outreach Team an email at outreach.ssf@coram.org.uk or call us on 020 7601 1800 to begin your creative journey.
P.S. There’s a good chance that we’re currently working in the wings to secure a theatre in your area. We’d love to hear your interest so we can try to secure dates as early as possible!
[*last updated 09/01/2024]