Shakespeare & Young Company Presents HAMLET AND ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST, Now thru 8/16

Shakespeare & Young Company showcase their eight weeks of intense training in two performances at The Rose Footprint. They will be presenting a 45-minute, plot-driven, re-imagining of Hamlet, with three different actors playing three different Hamlets, and Another Part of the Forest, an As You Like It/Midsummer mash-up. The Young Company features twelve young adults, aged 16-20, from across the United States.

Tickets are $15 or free for students and children. To reserve tickets, call the Box Office at (413) 637-3353 or visit our website http://www.shakespeare.org/performances/bankside-festival/shakespeare-young-company/

Shakespeare & Young Company is an eight-week training period, which works to prepare participants for the professional world of theatre. Tom Jaeger, Shakespeare & Young Company's Director, believes "the program has evolved... students in late high-school or early college get pre-professional experience. We provide them with the skills that enable them to walk into auditions... they are the ones that the casting director will want to see. It's rigorous training; we go to great lengths to support the kids, as they do each other."

Formed out of the Fall Festival, our award-winning Shakespeare in the schools program,Shakespeare & Young Company has become a separate program that draws young adults from far outside the Berkshire area including, Maine and New York as well as many from Massachusetts. This summer, twelve participants have spent eight weeks, living, eating and breathing theatre as they work to stage two pieces, adapted especially to play to their strengths. While their scheduled rehearsals and master classes take priority, the participants are also offered the opportunity to apply for a paid internship; working with the box office, the kitchen or concession sales. The internships provide the rare chance to gain insight into the day-to-day life of a Working Theatre company and encourage the Young Company to be self-sufficient.

Bios:

Tom Jaeger ninth season (Director, Hamlet, Shakespeare & Young Company), S&Co: Director of SYCo 2011 & 2012, The Comedy of Errors (Duke Solinus), Berkley Square (Mr. Throstle), Twelfth Night Tour/Stables (Malvolio/Sebastian), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Snug), Hamlet Tour/Stables (Hamlet), Troilus and Cressida (Hector, Ulysses, Pactroclus), Souls Belated (Gannett), Romeo and Juliet (Peter), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Snout and Tank the Dog). Three years as Co-Director/Faculty of Shakespeare & Young Company, Director for 18 productions for the Spring and Fall Festivals of Shakespeare.

Sarah Taylor eighth season (Director, Another Part of the Forest). Sarah has been a company member since 1998. While here she has worked with Shakespeare & Company's Education Program as an actor, director, choreographer and teacher with the Fall and Spring Festivals of Shakespeare, Shakespeare & Young Company, Shakespeare in the Berkshire Juvenile Courts as well as many other residencies. She has also worked as a director, teacher and actor with the education programs at Merrimack Repertory Theatre's Young Artists at Play, The Orlando Shakespeare Festival, Once Upon a Time and the Play Ground Children's Theatre. S&Co: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Titania, Puck and Hippolyta), Romeo and Juliet (Lady Capulet, Benvolio and Sister Joan), Hamlet Educational Spring Tour and the Summer Performance Season(Gertrude), The Tamer Tamed, The Tempest, Love's Labor's Lost, A View Beyond, Wild and Whirling Words and Dibble Dance. Sarah now calls Chicago home after moving there to pursue her MFA in acting at the Chicago College of Performing Arts. Other acting credits include Clara in Ventfort Hall's one woman show last year; Machinal, Visions of Keroauc and The Furies at CCPA; Cymbeline and Trolius and Cressida at The Chicago Shakespeare Theatre; and Twelfth Night, Taming of the Shrew and Measure for Measure with the Back Room Shakespeare Project; Macbeth at the Worcester Foothills Theatre and The Taming of the Shrew with Coast-to-Coast Theatre. Sarah holds a BFA in Acting from the University of Central Florida and an MFA in Acting from the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.

At a Glance:
PRODUCTION: SYCo, Hamlet and Another Part of the Forest
THEATRE: The Rose Footprint
DIRECTOR OF SYCo: Tom Jaeger
FACULTY: Corinna May, Tori Roades Carraro, Sarah Taylor, Jenna Ware
COSTUME DESIGNER: Mary Boyce and Stella Schwartz

Shakespeare & Young Company:
Adam Brown - Chatham, MA, SUNY Geneseo
Faolain Bubersky - South Hadley, MA, PVPA Charter School
Jolee Cohen - Brooklyn, NY, The Beacon School
Sarah Corbyn Woolf - Northampton, MA, Wesleyan University
Gabby Farrah - Brookline, MA, Commonwealth School
Stephanie Fasano - Richmond, MA, Lenox Memorial High
Finn Freymann - New York City, Trinity High School
Rachel Gallagher - Chicopee, MA, Chicopee High School
Joshua Lacourse - North Andover, MA, North Andover High School
Dyer Rhoads - Portland, ME, Waynflete School
Georgie Richer - Chatham, NY, Bennington College
Iris Smith-d'Agincourt - Cambridge, MA, Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School.

Performance dates:
TONIGHT, August 14, 2013, 5:00pm
August 16, 2013, 5:00pm

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