Shakespeare and Justice: Field Trip at United States Courthouse

Discovering Justice is delighted to announce its newest offering for the 2005-2006 school year: “Shakespeare and Justice.”

Discovering Justice and the Actors’ Shakespeare Project are collaborating to produce urgently relevant, fully professional, justice-related theater to high school students in the courtroom setting. Shakespeare’s plays are rich with the deeply human themes of justice, ethics, conflict, civic vs. personal duty and responsibility, corruption, questions of deception and truth, and our struggle to love, live, and lead with honor and fairness in a troubled world. ASP’s bare bones, highly artistic performances of these works in a courtroom setting will help these themes resonate in an accessible manner for students and teachers. The focus on the text and relationships will help students get inside Shakespeare’s passionate words and ideas in an immediate, direct, and personal way. Discovering Justice is a civic education action tank whose mission is to educate for democracy by teaching about justice.

2005—2006 school year
Discovering Justice Performance Schedule:
Dramas at the U.S. Courthouse, Boston presented through Discovering Justice, and performed by the Actors’ Shakespeare Project.

Tuesday, November 1, 2005
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Performance Time: 1 hour (all performances start at 10:30 a.m.)
Audience limit: 80 (courtroom capacity)
Grade levels: 8-12

To schedule a performance:
Please contact Amory Files, Program Coordinator at Discovering Justice.
Phone: 617-748-9634
Email: afiles@discoveringjustice.org
www.discoveringjustice.org