{"id":571,"date":"2014-03-27T12:53:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T12:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare\/?page_id=571"},"modified":"2015-12-03T08:16:25","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T08:16:25","slug":"queen-katherine-school","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare\/lancaster-season-of-shakespeare\/workshops\/queen-katherine-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Katherine School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We worked\u00a0with three groups on <em>A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream <\/em>at\u00a0Queen Katherine School, Kendal. The first nurture group displayed\u00a0real energy and enthusiasm working on scenes between Helena and Demetrius, especially when the session\u00a0concluded with Alison (as Demetrius) chasing a pupil (as Helena) around the hall!<\/p>\n<p>Students in the afternoon workshops showed\u00a0close\u00a0knowledge of the play and a growing sensitivity to the emotional interactions between the lovers Helena, Hermia, Demetrius and Lysander in Act 3 Scene 2.\u00a0Their imaginative and intuitive interpretations of the combination of comedy and\u00a0pain in the lovers&#8217; interactions\u00a0came through\u00a0strongly as they performed extracts\u00a0back to the whole group and commented on each others&#8217; performances. Responding to whether performance helped their understanding of the play, the students\u00a0commented:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>&#8216;it makes it all feel more alive&#8217;, &#8216;it helps you to understand the language&#8217;, &#8216;you can see the different ways you can perform a scene&#8217;, &#8216;I enjoyed watching other people&#8217;s interpretations&#8217;, &#8216;it helped me to speak the language&#8217;, &#8216;performing helped show the character&#8217;s emotions&#8217;, &#8216;feeling how actors feel&#8217; and it &#8216;makes it feel more real and relative&#8217;.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is fantastic to see how well the students engaged with the play\u00a0through performance at\u00a0the levels of language,\u00a0emotion and\u00a0genre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We worked\u00a0with three groups on A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream at\u00a0Queen Katherine School, Kendal. The first nurture group displayed\u00a0real energy and enthusiasm working on scenes between Helena and Demetrius, especially when the session\u00a0concluded with Alison (as Demetrius) chasing a pupil (as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare\/lancaster-season-of-shakespeare\/workshops\/queen-katherine-school\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"parent":339,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-571","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/571\/revisions\/633"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespeare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}