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[Lesley]

When I was at high school my English teacher took us all down to Stratford ( for the day!) to see "Julius Caesar".

I wasn't remotely interested.

However, had DT been in it, well, that's a different story

 

I wish schools wouldn't do this - perhaps at College when students may actually be interested! I must admit to not going to the theatre very often despite having always lived around the Stratford villages, until i met Carl. We've been to see quite a few performances now - they're not always easy to get into - we've turned up at the Box Office before now and had the people there practically laughing at us for even thinking there might be tickets available

 

We have to sit amongst bored students, Japanese tourists who think they ought to go but don't understand one word and so talk all the time and American tourists who also have to 'do' Shakespeare and the RSC Theatre and eat, noisily, all the way through

 

We paid a fortune to see Derek Jacobi in Macbeth - I thought even quiet Carl was going to go into 'kill' mode as someone coughed all the way through it. DJ did comment on it and started one speech again but the offending person didn't even have the grace to leave for a while and have a drink

[Valkyrie]

With regard to school I suppose it depends on what play is being studied. We were lucky enough to have The Taming of the Shrew for O'Level, and we saw it at Stratford - it was brilliant. It really helped to have a visual. I agree that some of the heavy types of play is too much for youngsters. In my 20's I bought the whole collection and ploughed through them. I did start with the comedies, but loved Macbeth. Nowadays the children only have bits of plays which is even worse - you can't get a feel for the play at all, so puts them off even more.

[Lesley]

With regard to school I suppose it depends on what play is being studied. We were lucky enough to have The Taming of the Shrew for O'Level, and we saw it at Stratford - it was brilliant. It really helped to have a visual. I agree that some of the heavy types of play is too much for youngsters. In my 20's I bought the whole collection and ploughed through them. I did start with the comedies, but loved Macbeth. Nowadays the children only have bits of plays which is even worse - you can't get a feel for the play at all, so puts them off even more.

 

I quite agree - and it also depends on the teacher I suppose.

 

Learing just parts of the plays is going to be so confusing.....

 

I must admit that although Stratford born and bred, I never wanted to see any of the plays until I met Carl who is heavily into all the Histories and Tragedies. I prefer the Comedies so we compromise - and I don't have to go to two really long plays on the trot

 

Anyone who was contemplating coming to Stratford to see the Theatre and gardens had better leave it for a while The theatre has been pulled down for modernisation and the gardens have been destroyed The plays are being shown in a temporary theatre until the new one is finished. We're going in July, to the temporary theatre. Stratford is a mess at the moment.