The Improvised Shakespeare Company

The Improvised Shakespeare Company Recommended for grades 7–12 Mondavi Center School Matinee Program

Based on an audience suggestion, The Improvised Shakespeare Company creates a fully improvised play in Elizabethan style. Each of the players has brushed up on his “thee’s” and “thou’s” to bring you off-the-cuff comedy using the language and themes of William Shakespeare. Any hour could be filled with power struggles, star-crossed lovers, sprites, kings, queens, princesses, sword-play, rhyming couplets, asides, insults, persons in disguise and all that we have come to expect from the pen of the Great Bard. With the audience seated on stage, and with nothing planned out, rehearsed or written, each performance is entirely unique! CUESHEET (PDF 252k)
These study guides provide background information on the artists and art form and are intended to help teachers prepare their students for the school matinee that they will attend at the Mondavi Center.