Join this Continuing Professional Development session and equip yourself with tools and an in-depth understanding of Macbeth to enhance your teaching in the classroom. This is an in-person event hosted on-site at Shakespeare’s Globe.

Aimed at secondary teachers, with a particular focus on Key Stage 4, the session will demonstrate how to use practical, rehearsal room techniques to enliven and deepen your students’ understanding of the play’s characters, context, themes and imagery, and develop their critical thinking skills.

This CPD is production-specific, highlighting themes and concepts pertinent to our 2025 Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank production of Macbeth. This fast-paced, 90-minute version is created especially for young people and is the perfect introduction to Shakespeare for everyone.

Your experience includes:

• An engaging two-and-a-half-hour workshop with an expert practitioner
• A 30 minute tour of the Globe Theatre
• A seated ticket to the matinee performance of Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank: Macbeth
• A teacher resource pack to help you embed your learning in the classroom

About the production

A daring new 90-minute version of Shakespeare’s tale of tyranny and ambition, created especially for young people. When three women predict soldier Macbeth’s future, he decides to fulfil their prophecy and seize control of the nation, but at a terrible cost. The Globe’s Director of Education Lucy Cuthbertson (Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank 2024: Romeo and Juliet; Rough Magic; Midsummer Mechanicals) directs this year’s Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank production.

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