Shakespeare Fest

SGCNZ Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival 2025 - Nationals, baby! 

PRESS:

We are Kenough! - https://www.mcglashan.school.nz/college-life/news/article/3l8XWVo  

John McGlashan College Shines at National Shakespeare Festival in Pōneke Wellington - https://hail.to/john-mcglashan-college/article/vQgyFPR 

Young actors find truthful connection: https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/young-actors-find-truthful-connection 

Acting in that Scottish Play: https://hail.to/john-mcglashan-college/article/PCp4XEA 

All the World's a Stage: https://hail.to/john-mcglashan-college/article/SlpdOqG 

The University of Otago invite drama students to perform: https://hail.to/john-mcglashan-college/article/fDT2CRl 

Annually, or bi-annually, McGlashan enters a group into the SGCNZ University of Otago Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival Otago Regional Final.  In past years, we’ve had groups perform scenes from Macbeth, Hamlet, and Romeo & Juliet, to name a few. 

What is the SGCNZ?  Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand (SGCNZ) is a life skills enhancing organisation through Shakespeare. It interacts and collaborates with Shakespeare’s Globe in London.

Developing skills of young people, including collaboration, co-operation, compromise, and at the same time, leadership, self-presentation, self- confidence, self-esteem, time management, project management and performance evaluation are just some of the key skills SGCNZ enhances, by providing opportunities for all to realise their potential on stage through festivals, its flow on activities, and the associated competitions in costume and static image design, music composition and writing. Interns from universities around the globe and local volunteers gain invaluable arts administration work experience.

SGCNZ encourages people to relish the richness of language, have fun with figures of speech, explore literature and let their imaginary forces work…!