The Fall Festival of Shakespeare is a non-competitive region-wide collaboration between Portland Playhouse and area middle schools. The Festival is a spectacular theatrical event, in part because student actors connect well to Shakespeare; they understand the passion, the large stakes, and the disaster. Middle school is not unlike an Elizabethan Tragedy.

The students are not only performers in the festival, but a large and vocal component of the audience. They are most active and vibrant theatre patrons you will ever encounter. They “oooh” and “ahhh”; call out “Oh no she didn’t”; scream and laugh. It’s the closest thing we have to how an Elizabethan audience at Shakespeare’s Globe might have reacted. It’s an unforgettable experience for the students involved, and an engaging cultural phenomenon for everyone to witness.

Performance Schedule:

11:00am:

DaVinci School- Prologue

Park Academy- Twelfth Night

DaVinci School- Henry IV Part 1

3:00pm:

DaVinci School- Comedy of Errors

Harriet Tubman- As You Like It

ACMA- Julius Ceasar

DaVinci School- Epilogue

All seating is general admission. Doors to seating open 30 minutes prior to show time.

Arts For All tickets are available at the Portland'5 Box Office.