Here is a photographic sampling of the action at the Denver Public Schools 40th annual Shakespeare Festival held Fri., April 26 at the Denver Performing Arts Complex in downtown Denver. Students from Northfield High School, McAuliffe International School, Willow Elementary and Isabella Bird Community School took part in the event that drew more than 5,000 student actors.
According to DPS, its festival “is the oldest and largest student Shakespeare festival in the country, and includes thousands of students and teachers from schools all across the region. Historically, the Shakespeare Festival provides a forum for students to perform sonnets and scenes from the works of Shakespeare, as well as demonstrate dance and vocal and instrumental music of Shakespeare’s time. This has been reflected in having one of Shakespeare’s plays be the central theme for each Festival.”
This year’s theme is a quote from Shakespeare’s Hamlet (Act IV, Scene V), “We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
(Nearly all the photos are of students from Central Park schools. The photos were taken by representatives of Northfield High School, McAuliffe and Sarah Huber.)
