Shakespearience

The National Endowment for the Arts in cooperation with Arts Midwest presents: Shakespeare for a New Generation

Idaho Shakespeare Festival’s production is part of Shakespeare for a New Generation, a national program of the National Endowment for the Arts in cooperation with Arts Midwest.

Idaho Shakespeare Festival is one of 36 professional theater companies selected to participate in Shakespeare for a New Generation, bringing the finest productions of Shakespeare to thousands of middle- and high-school students in communities across the United States. This is the ninth year of Shakespeare in American Communities, the largest tour of Shakespeare in American history.

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Idaho Humanities Council’s Endowment for Humanities Education.

Shakespearience presents Macbeth

Brochure with full info available in sidebar.

by William Shakespeare
Available January 23 – March 30, 2012

Recommended for students grades 7 – 12

“I dare do all that may become a man who dares do more is none.” -  Macbeth  (Act I, Sc. VII)

A gripping tale of greed and power and one of Shakespeare’s most compelling stories of ambition gone wrong. Three witches with a chilling prophecy that Macbeth will soon become the King of Scotland start a spiral of misdeeds. Relishing in the news, Lady Macbeth wants to wear the crown sooner and demands her husband kill Duncan, the current King. The aftermath is a whirlwind of evil deeds generating more evil deeds until one man, Macduff, stops the guilt ridden Macbeth and his bloody rise to power.

Scheduling
The following is a chart of the 2012 Shakespearience Tour.

Western       1/23 – 1/27
Eastern        1/30 – 2/3
Western       2/6 – 2/10
Western       2/13 – 2/17
Eastern        2/20 – 2/24
Western       2/27 – 3/2
Northern      3/5 – 3/9
Eastern        3/12 – 3/16
Western       3/19 – 3/23
Northern      3/26 – 3/30

To Book: email kiely@idahoshakespeare.org or call 208-429-9908 x204

Click to watch Behind the Scenes Video of the making of the tours!

Program Support

Performances are made possible by a generous community of funders who support our efforts to make theater accessible, relevant, exciting and fun. Please join us in thanking them for their support of the arts and their commitment to education.

• Arts Midwest
• Boise City Department of Arts & History
• Idaho Community Foundation and the following funds:
  • F.M., Anne G. & Beverly B. Bistline Foundation
  • Eastern Region Greatest Need Fund
  • Gladys E. Langroise Advised Fund
  • Perc H. Shelton & Gladys Pospisil Shelton Advised Fund
  • James A. Pinney Memorial Fund
• US Bancorp Foundation
• Idaho Commission on the Arts
• OfficeMax Boise Community Fund
• Idaho Humanities Council and National Endowment for the Humanities
• Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation
• Home Federal Foundation
• Idaho Power Foundation
• J.R. Simplot Foundation
• Union Pacific Foundation
• Wells Fargo Bank
• The Whittenberger Foundation
• Intermountain Gas Industries Foundation