See It: The Community being helped

The DYRS Shakespeare Project works to expose incarcerated youth in DC to Shakespeare and the arts, by running workshops on dramatic arts and preparing a group of incarcerated youth to preform a 30 minute production of a Shakespeare play at the annual Secondary School Festival at the Folger Shakespeare library in DC. While there is a tangible goal that is achieved each year, the project is primarily process based and works to provide art therapy and alternative forms of expression to juveniles struggling to break free of the system.

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See It: The Community being helped

Our goal is to make Shakespeare widely available across the nation and, more importantly, widely enjoyed and understood. Too often the Bard is ignored or considered too difficult to understand when in reality his works are just as relevant today as they were in his time. We believe that Shakespeare is one of history's greatest authors and that attending a performance of his works should be pain-less and dare we say enjoyable. We plan to travel for 10 weeks this summer with eight actors completely directing, producing, and acting out three shows at each stop, charging a $5 adult admission and free for children under 10.