School Field Trips
Experience the wonder of a live theatrical performance with your class! Expand your students’ imaginations as we bring stories and characters to life on stage. School-day performances are available for elementary, middle, and high school groups as well as homeschool groups, clubs, and the general public. These plays are chosen with an eye to the needs of the school curriculum and the needs of young people and families in our community. Below are upcoming field trip matinees and additional information.
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William Shakespeare’s Macbeth School Tour – Fall 2024
Central Florida’s largest professional theater comes to your school with a live production of Shakespeare’s thrilling play about ambition and superstition, just in time for Halloween.
This special experience is available Mondays through Fridays for the weeks of October 10 – November 1, 2024 (excluding October 7 & 8).
Length of Visit: Two and one half (3.5) Hours Total: (60 minute load-in, 80 minute performance and 10 minute talkback with students, 60 minute load-out)
Space Needed: Auditorium.
Technical Requirements: We will bring our own sound system or in some cases, we can plug into yours. We work with your contact to easily come into your school with minimal existing technical equipment.
Number of Students: 300 – 800 (Depending upon available space)
Target Audience: Grades 6 – 12
Show Summary: “Something wicked this way comes.” Experience a visually striking, modern production of Shakespeare’s Scottish play, featuring an arresting design, bold costumes, and modern choreography. Blind ambition and twisted prophecy lead Macbeth to murder the Scottish king and seize the throne. An impulse for destruction and a loose grip on sanity define Lord and Lady Macbeth’s foothold on power that can only end in tragedy.
Ticket Price: $2,000 per performance and post-play discussion (School may add four (4) workshops for an additional $500.
Add-On Workshops: Available before or after your students experience the play, enhance their learning with one of our specially designed workshops. (LENGTH: 45 – 60 minutes, FEE: $500 for 4 classes of 35 students each)
- Shakes Alive! – Orlando Shakes’ Teaching Artists engage your students in an interactive plot summary of Macbeth and learn to paraphrase Shakespearean text, distinguishing between the denotative and connotative meanings of words.
- Shakespeare’s Clues – Orlando Shakes’ Teaching Artists introduce your students to Iambic Pentameter and Shakespeare’s use of punctuation and wordplay as directions to the actor.
- Decoding the Sonnet – Teaching Artists will approach the themes, rhyme scheme and structure in Shakespeare’s sonnets. Students will compose their own personal sonnets by the end of the class.
All Middle and High School Workshops align with Florida Standards in Reading, Speaking and Listening, Theater Arts, and Social Studies.
Contact: Anne Hering, Education Director, anneh@orlandoshakes.org (407) 447-1700 ext. 208
Children’s Series Performance
Days and Times
TO BE ANNOUNCED
Pricing
TO BE ANNOUNCED
Based on the Book by E.B White | Adapted for the Stage By Joseph Robinette
Available Times:
Mar 26 – April 26, 2025
Margeson Theater
Signature Series Performances
Middle and High School
6th – 12th Grade
Pricing
$18 per person for Plays / $22 per person for Musicals
(Buy 10 tickets and the 11th ticket is free with a minimum of 50 tickets)
Field Trip Request
Workshops
Interested in enriching and engaging workshops for your students that relate to your Orlando Shakes field trip? Our Pre-show Workshops are a great chance to extend the learning beyond the stage. Click here for more information about enrichment activities, workshops, and teacher resources.
WorkshopsCall our Education Department at (407) 447-1700 ext. 254 to find out more information.