Schools' Storytellings
Suitable for Key Stages 1 – 2
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Schools’ Storytellings are the perfect introduction to Shakespeare’s plays for your pupils. They are interactive performance of well-known plays performed by a Globe storyteller at your school or in our magical, indoor Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.
Our Schools’ Storytellings are one-hour retellings of a Shakespeare play. Storytellings are performed by an expert Globe Storyteller and feature several interactive elements, where pupils are encouraged to contribute verbally, physically and creatively to the performance. The story is delivered in accessible English, but with key Shakespeare quotes from the original play mixed in.
2025 Spring Storytellings at Shakespeare’s Globe
Booking is now open for our 2025 Spring Storytellings in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse:
- Tuesday 20 May 11.00am–12.00pm – Macbeth
- Tuesday 20 May 1.30pm–2.30pm – Macbeth
- Wednesday 21 May 11.00am–12.00pm – Play to be announced
- Wednesday 21 May 1.30pm–2.30pm – Play to be announced
- Thursday 22 May 11.00am–12.00pm – Macbeth
- Thursday 22 May 1.30pm–2.30pm – Macbeth
Storytellings in your school
The following Storytellings can be performed in your school all year round (subject to Globe Storyteller availability):
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Hamlet, Henry V, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night
Curriculum links
- Provides pupils with a rich, varied language environment by engaging with Shakespeare’s language.
- Support pupils to make links between known and new vocabulary.
- Challenge pupils’ thinking about important social and moral issues.
- Develop emotional intelligence and self-regulation.
- Support pupils to listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers.
- Participate actively in discussions, performances, role play and improvisations.
Our Storytellings are inclusive, accessible retellings of Shakespeare’s plays, performed in relaxed environments where students are encouraged to join in with the fun – giving ideas to further the story, acting as characters or objects, and more! As with our other activities, we invite teachers to have a call with our SEN coordinators ahead of your trip to discuss the needs of your students and how we can best support them during your visit. All information provided will only be shared with your practitioner if necessary, and will not be held on file after your session.
Book your Storytelling
Email us to book your Storytelling at Shakespeare’s Globe in spring 2025, specifying which performance you’d like to attend. You can also add a 90-minute Lively Action workshop to your visit, with a discount applied to your whole visit.
All Schools-Only Storytellings are subject to photography at Shakespeare’s Globe discretion. Photographs of the event will only use these images for press or marketing purposes.
The safety of all students whilst at Shakespeare’s Globe is our priority, and individual audience members will not be identified by name in any images of the Storytelling. In submitting a booking request, you acknowledge that the performance you attend may be a photography day, and you therefore agree to your group being photographed. It is your responsibility to inform the Globe of any issues in relation to this as early as possible and always at least a month before the date of the performance you are attending.
Fill out our online form to book in your school.
Contact us
+44 (0)207 902 1433
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‘How wonderful to make Shakespeare accessible for Year 2 and 3. A perfect day!’
– Teacher, William Patten Primary School, Hackney
TICKET PRICES
At Shakespeare’s Globe
Storytelling performances take place in our magical, indoor Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.
- £12 per student (state schools), £14 per student (independent schools)
- Minimum of 20 students required per booking
- Staff tickets are free on a 1:10 ratio to pupils
- All staff outside this ratio are charged the student ticket fee, unless they are attending in a 1:1 support capacity (in which case they also go free)
You can also add a 90-minute Lively Action workshop to your visit. Bundle ticket price (for Storytelling + Lively Action workshop):
- £20 per student (state schools), £24 per student (independent)
- Minimum of 20 students required per booking
- Staffing ratios apply as above
There is a set itinerary for this package – please email us for full details.
A £2.50 administration charge applies per booking
In your school
Please email us for the latest in-school pricing.