Lysander loves Hermia but, under a spell, fake-loves Helena. Lysander + Hermia and Demetrius + Helena, the four bickering, pining, potioned young lovers in A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Hermia loves Lysander. May never glorious sun reflex his beams upon the country where you make abode, but darkness and the gloomy shade of death environ you, till mischief and despair drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves! An unkind Shakespeare presents her as an adulteress who fakes pregnancy in order to avoid being burnt at the stake. Joan la Pucelle: Better known to history as Joan of Arc, she leads the Dauphin’s forces against Talbot and the English in Henry VI, Part 1. “O happy dagger! This is thy sheath there rust, and let me die.” In four days, she is courted by Count Paris falls in love with Romeo (who kills her cousin Tybalt) has her first sexual experience is nearly disowned by her parents, and spends two days drugged to unconsciousness. The daughter of Capulet, she falls in love with Romeo, son of her father’s mortal enemy with, ahem, tragic results. Juliet is a title character in Romeo and Juliet. In honor of the 5,000 students from kindergarten through 12th grade who will participate in Friday’s festival, we present this list of Shakespeare’s Top 10 Teens: and continues throughout the day with short performances of sonnets and scenes, as well as demonstrations of dance, music and songs from Shakespeare’s time. And the show begins with a grand parade from Skyline Park beginning at 10 a.m.
“The Show Must Go On!” the district says on the festival page of its website. The DPS Shakespeare Festival, the largest student fest in the country, returns Friday to the Denver Performing Arts Complex, despite a planned walkout by teachers throughout the country in support of increased salaries and classroom resources. Life expectancy in England in 1600 was 35, largely because of high infant and child mortality.) Most prominently, no doubt, the uncomfortably young 14-year-old Juliet, whose Romeo was five years her senior. But you might be surprised how many age-appropriate roles there are out there for teens. The first 33 years of the Denver Public Schools’ annual Shakespeare Festival have produced thousands of teenagers playing hundreds of Macbeths, Rosalinds and dusty old Lears. When 5,000 teens take over downtown in Shakespearean garb Friday, some might even be playing their own ages
Video by David Lenk and John Moore for the DCPA NewsCenter. Video: Our look back at the 2017 Denver Public Schools Shakespeare Festival, which returns for a 34th year on Friday (April 27).
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