The Youngest Company of Children’s Shakespeare Theatre

The Knaves range in age from 8-14. In this group young actors learn all the skills needed to tell the stories of William Shakespeare’s plays: movement, voice, stage combat, dance. They begin to understand the language and the rhythm of the text through theater games, discussion and lots of on-your-feet rehearsal work. The older kids in this group have often been in at least a few plays and they act as mentors to the younger ones and the new members. Kids work their way up, playing smaller parts at first and eventually tackling lead roles in 7th and 8th grade.