Preparing Your Students

We hope that you will enjoy and value the performance of Hamlet: Shakespeare in Queens Park. It is important that supervising teachers are seated amongst their group, so that they can view both the performance and the student audience, as students often look to staff for appropriate responses. Prior to the performance teachers' assistance is needed so students arrive:

• with an awareness of the program's content;
• with a willingness to enjoy the performance and to concentrate on absorbing;
• the ideas being presented;
• ready to understand the art form used to communicate ideas; and
• prepared to accept the performer's interpretation of the material being presented.

Each performance will be unique to the dynamics of the audience directly impacting on the quality of the performance. By taking note of the following points, you will ensure that your class and the rest of the audience will enjoy the performance:

• minimal talk or unnecessary movement in the audience;
• photography and video recording of the performance is not permitted; and
• alarms, beeping watches, pagers, mobile phones should be turned off.