EAGLE ROCK ENLISTS SHAKESPEARE TO HELP KEEP KIDS IN SCHOOL! THE BARD ROCKS EAGLE ROCK WITH A PRODUCTION OF TWELTH NIGHT!

Shakespeare Festival/LA, The Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, the Eagle Rock Community Cultural Association, and Congressman Xavier Becerra combine to present a Will Power To Youth production of William Shakespeare’s TWELFTH NIGHT. This special presentation utilizes the talents of thirty economically and culturally challenged youths in the Will Power to Youth program. Congressman Xavier Becerra instrumental in obtaining a $98,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to fund the project. Truancy prevention is one of the department’s pet projects. The Will Power to Youth program helps keep kids in school by involving them in the full aspects of play production, teaching them commitment and responsibility.

Will Power to Youth is the educational outreach program of the Shakespeare Festival/LA, a non-profit theatre organization. It provides artistic training, employment, accredited academic enrichment, and life-skills experience to low-income at-risk youths, ages 14-21. Guided by professional theatre artists, 30 youths rehearse and present a play based on one of Shakespeare’s texts. Through preparation and performance, youths learn all facits of production. The end of each session culminates in performances at Shakespeare/LA’s permanent theatre space, the rustic 500 seat Sylvan Amphitheater. Will Power to Youth utilizes theatre as a tool for intellectual and emotional development. The kids, under the direction of Chris Anthony, are employed to explore human relation issues through dialogue as they study, adapt, produce, and perform TWELFTH NIGHT. They are mostly students from Franklin High School in Eagle Rock.



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