Introducing the kids to Shakespeare – Part 4 of ? Much Ado About Nothing (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 2025) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, take 3 (Yale Dramatic Association, April 2026)

After the success of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, when I was next in London with the children, I was keen to try again, and find another Shakespearean play to take my son to. However, as this was March, the play on offer at the Globe was Cymbeline, which didn’t seem quite suitable for an 11 … Continue reading Introducing the kids to Shakespeare – Part 4 of ? Much Ado About Nothing (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 2025) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, take 3 (Yale Dramatic Association, April 2026)

Introducing the kids to Shakespeare – Part 2 of ? – A Midsummer Night’s Dream, take 1, London 2023

As I said in my previous post about kids and Shakespeare, the first real play I took my son to was A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare’s Globe in London in the summer of 2023 when he was 9½. So here's the story, and some further thoughts on how I've been trying to introduce my … Continue reading Introducing the kids to Shakespeare – Part 2 of ? – A Midsummer Night’s Dream, take 1, London 2023