The Fall Festival of Shakespeare is a non-competitive region-wide collaboration between Portland Playhouse and area middle and high 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. High school and 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 the 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.
Make a donation to Portland Playhouse through the Willamette Week Give! Guide now through December 31 and your gift up to $15,000 will be matched by The Raymond Family Foundation. As a thank you, you’ll receive ton of thank you gifts from Portland area business – not to mention the warm, fuzzy feeling that you’ve done something good.
Thank you to the sponsors of the 2019 Fall Festival of Shakespeare. If you would like to sponsor the 2020 Festival, please contact our Development Director Elena Hein at elena@portlandplayhouse.org .
We offer a Fall Festival of Shakespeare for middle school and high school students, and Spring Social Justice Festival for high school students as well as student matinees of our main stage shows. Contact us today for more information.