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Youth shakespeare festival 2026
Rehearsals on Saturdays: Feb 7 - April 25, 1-4 p.m. at the Crows’ Nest (7 Caliente Road, building 1 at La Tienda in Eldorado)
Optional Tuesdays
Performances May 1, 2
The Importance of Being earnest
Rehearsals begin on Wednesday June 3. We rehearse through July 30, 4 afternoons a week
(Mondays - Thursdays, 1 - 4:30 p.m.) at the Crows’ Nest.
Performances July 31, August 1, 2, 7, 8, 9
Fight Call!
Sign up for a year of Saturday stage combat workshops for $100
Shakespeare gym
The Tempest
Directed by Caryl Farkas
Rehearsals will begin online at the end of March with close-reading (one night for each act) and Zoom specials with actors which will be tailored to fit the schedules of all involved. As soon as casts are figured out we will survey everyone to find a time that works for all.
In-person rehearsals would begin June 2, with 3 rehearsals per week - we will schedule one “All-called” per week Thursday evenings at UU, and two rehearsals designed for particular cast members at specific times at the Nest so in practice you wouldn’t be called 3 times a week.
Performances will be the last weekend in August (Thurs - Sun, 8/27 - 30). If we manage to have two casts we will revisit the idea of a second weekend.
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