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Youth Shakespeare Festival santa Fe 2025
The seventh annual Youth Shakespeare Festival features scenes from Hamlet, Macbeth, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, King Henry V, Romeo and Juliet, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream performed by actors 10-18.
Performances 4/25, 26 at the Crows’ Nest at La Tienda in Eldorado (enter through Fusion Taco lobby)
5:00 p.m. Elizabethan and contemporary food for sale in the lobby
6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Scenes, demonstrations, tavern songs, dance
The Shakespeare Gym/Upstart Crows production of Romeo and Juliet
There will be two by-invitation-only casts - one attempting to approximate age/gender accuracy, the other age blind/gender blind. You can only register if you have been invited to participate.
Close read and casting in early Feb.
Rehearsal March 1 - June 10 (exact dates tbd)
Dress June 9, 10
Performance: June 12,-15, 19-22 at the Crows' Nest
Max Rogers’ Much Ado About Nothing
Our summer show with open registration - all who wish to play will have a part! Max will direct, Alej, Caryl, and Andy will Assistant Direct his vision for the play. Rehearsals at UU Santa Fe and the Crows' Nest. Performances at UU Santa Fe.
Rehearsals May 28 - July 22. Mondays - Thursdays, 1-4 p.m. at the Crows’ Nest and UU Santa Fe (those cast members who have stage fights are exempt from Fight Call fees)
Dress rehearsals will be July 28, 29, 30, and 31. Performances at UU Santa Fe on the August 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10.
Shut-in shakespeare
Our online Shakespeare Festival - suitable for deepening your understanding of performing Shakespeare
Four private mentoring sessions on verse, rhetoric, context, meaning, and performance to develop a monologue or soliloquy to readiness for recording. Participants use their own device to record their performance which will then be placed on the Upstart Crows of Santa Fe’s YouTube Channel.
Watch the Upstart Crows/Shakespeare Gym production of Hamlet at Seton Castle on You Tube