With the birthday of Shakespeare approaching in April we have been reading books about the playwright, listening to his sonnets on CD and touring the Globe theatre on line. Our local Gallery has a portrait of Shakespeare on display that is believed to be the only authentic one. In conjunction with this they have put together a wonderful collection of costumes, art work and photographs of Shakespeares plays. The boys both attended an afternoon workshop that took them through the displays, but I wanted to have a look together especially now that we have a little more context and knowledge with which to look at it. The gallery had tours on for march break so we went yesterday to take advantage of it. There was a scavenger hunt which took you through each of the rooms, costumes to try on (such lucious rich dresses) , a claymation video to watch and then plasticene to experiment with, masks to make and games to play. It was a visit worth making.
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