Shakespeare 4 Kidz Marketing
Welcome to the on-line marketing pages for The Shakespeare 4 Kidz Theatre Company. We hope you will find here all that you need to help you successfully promote the show with us.
Current International Touring Productions (2010)
Autumn UK Touring Production (2010)
Other Shakespeare 4 Kidz Shows
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Important Basics about Shakespeare 4 Kidz
The shows titles are all prefixed "S4K" or "S4K's" eg S4K's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.
These are MUSICAL THEATRE ADAPTATIONS of Shakespeare's classic comedies - originally designed to be performed by 10 year-olds as the school play.
Think of it as "Shakespeare 4 Kidz does for Shakespeare, what Oliver! did for Dickens" and you should understand the style of the show.
We call this MUSIC THEATRE SHAKESPEARE, and S4K are regarded as the pioneers in this field.
Branding the show S4K's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, OR SHAKESPEARE 4 KIDZ A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, HELPS POSITION THE SHOW AS A MUSICAL ADAPTATION RATHER THAN A traditional production of the original text AND HOPEFULLY avoids any confusion with potential customers that this is NOT
The autumn touring show should be titled S4K's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM in your brochure - and it should state that it is A MUSICAL ADAPTATION.
The show is a large-middle scale touring production with 13 cast, a live band and a crew of 5.
Each performance lasts 2 hours 10 minutes including a 20 minute interval.
Our audience demographic is varied: junior and primary schools; lower secondary schools (especially evening shows); parents and grand-parents with their (grand)children. Growing numbers at evening shows from repeat visitors who may have originally seen an S4K show with their junior school, but have now moved to secondary school.
The UK government's inititiative "Shakespeare for all ages and stages" clearly demonstrates its desire to engage youngsters at the earliest possible age to Shakespeare, and S4K's shows are renoowned as "the ideal inroduction to Shakespeare".
FREE TEACHER RESOURCES (via the S4K website) for Key Stage 2* and Key Stage 3* are available for those schools who book for the show. Constantly updated, these resources include downloadable comprehension sheets for use in the classroom or for homework; synopses of the original version of each play and the S4K version of the show; interactive timelines and other contextual information regarding the play and the Life and Times of William Shakespeare; along with trivia, games, quizzes and an interactive multiple-choice Q&A section - which are very popular when integrated with school-classroom whiteboards.
Cast and production information is also available on line along with IMAGES, SAMPLE BROCHURE COPY and PRESS RELEASES.
We aspire to ensure that our Education programmes and support work maintains its links to the current UK National Curriculum and the National Literacy Strategy.
(* Key Stage 2 is the National Curriculum testing level for Years 5 and 6 - top end of junior/primary, 10 and 11 year olds; and Key Stage 3 is the level at Lower Secondary Year 9, 14 year-olds). Please note that there is no longer SATS testing at Key Stage 3 - and students no longer have to sit a compulsory Shakespeare paper at 14+.
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