PLAYING SHAKESPEARE
WITH DEUTSCHE BANK.
Our flagship project for secondary and post-16 further education students
Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank is Shakespeare’s Globe’s flagship partnership for secondary schools.
Each year we stage a dynamic 90-minute production of a key curriculum text on the iconic stage of the Globe Theatre. It’s created especially for young people and designed to help students from KS3 upwards as they build towards their GCSEs.
We offer thousands of free-to-access tickets for pupils aged 11–16 at non-selective state secondary schools in London and Birmingham; and thousands of subsidised tickets for all other schools nationwide. We also offer teacher CPD sessions, student workshops and free learning resources to help teachers and students get the most out of their visit to the Globe.
Find out more about the project on the page below, explore past productions and browse free online resources.
APPLICATIONS FOR STATE SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM ARE NOW CLOSED.
APPLICATIONS FOR ALL OTHER UK SECONDARY SCHOOLS ARE NOW CLOSED
Each year the project offers free tickets to students aged 11-16 in London and Birmingham state schools, and subsidised tickets to all other schools across the UK. Students come to the Globe Theatre to see a full-scale Shakespeare production, created specifically for young people. In 2022, our 16th Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank production played to over 28,000 schoolchildren, over 22,000 of whom came for free.
Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank is Shakespeare’s Globe and Deutsche Bank’s flagship partnership for secondary schools and sits at the heart of the bank’s youth engagement strategy, which is committed to helping young people realise their full potential.
RESOURCES
Explore our lesson plans, videos, teaching resources and more
Explore the Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank microsite for our 2024 production of Romeo & Juliet.
Resources are free to download and will help you prepare for your class’s visit to our production in the Globe Theatre.
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Over the past eighteen years, to work alongside these productions or on their own, we’ve created a wealth of teaching resource websites for individual Shakespeare plays. These include the key curriculum titles The Tempest, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. You can find links to all of the individual websites below.
PAST PRODUCTION IMAGES
There have been 18 Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank productions so far. Travel through time with the below gallery and take a look back at some of our previous play titles.
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