From Springville to St.George, Shakespeare is fun!

This is the fifth year that Ms. Clement, the SJHS drama teacher, has taken the Shakespeare Team to St. George for the Shakespeare Competition. On October 1st and 2nd the team watched a lot of Shakespearean scenes, were trained by professionals in workshops, and competed in group and solo competitions. 

This was the thirty-ninth annual Shakespeare Competition. It gives junior high and high school students from around the nation the chance to present material from Shakespearean times, in various artistic forms. The work is presented by professionals in their field, who offer various workshops for the students to go and learn and work on various acting skills. 

Ms. Clement has been going to the competition for 12 years. She started going when she was in junior high and continued throughout adulthood. Ms. Clement said, “The students ranked very well in all aspects of the competition.” According to Ms. Clement, parents were allowed to come, and a lot of them did. They had great support from the parents. 

According to Julie Brown, an eighth grader on the Shakespeare Team, everyone stayed at a hotel but her, she stayed at her grandma's house with her mom. Rebecca Walton, an eighth grader, thinks that everybody should try to get onto the team so they can go to the competition to meet new people and have fun. Tyler Glacier, a ninth grader, said, “SInce we had a crappy bus, I was sacrificed to get a better one.” Haylee Carpenter, a member of the team, said, “It was fun because we got to travel with all of our friends and we had a great teacher that came with us.” According to Haylee she would do it again.