Shakespeare 4 Kidz - Shakespeare's Hamlet Gets 3-D Movie Musical Treatment

By: Andy Propst � Aug 13, 2009�� London

A 3-D musical version of Shakespeare's Hamlet is the first of six film versions of the Bard's plays that the U.K. theater company Shakespeare 4 Kidz plans to bring to the screen, according to a report in Variety. The other plays that are slated for similar treatment are Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest.

British playwright John Godber will direct Hamlet. Alongside the movies, the producers of the series plan a TV show Movie Quest -- A Romeo 4 Juliet, which will be a public search to find two undiscovered young actors to play the lead parts of Romeo and Juliet.
For further information, visit www.shakespeare4kidz.com.

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What they say about us:
S4K ROMEO: "It was WONDERFUL! I especially loved: the way that music and humour were used; the use of the famous "Romeo Romeo..." line on the drunken homeward journey to pre-empt Juliet's speech and the way that the use of modern language was interspersed with some of Shakespeare's actual words and the way you ended upbeat to take the edge off the tragic ending for them. FAB! ... And the biggest plus was that you didn't fall into the trap of being patronising."

What they say about us:

S4K ROMEO: "It was WONDERFUL! I especially loved: the way that music and humour were used; the use of the famous "Romeo Romeo..." line on the drunken homeward journey to pre-empt Juliet's speech and the way that the use of modern language was interspersed with some of Shakespeare's actual words and the way you ended upbeat to take the edge off the tragic ending for them. FAB! ... And the biggest plus was that you didn't fall into the trap of being patronising."