Shakespeare gets the Hunts Point treatment
For the sixth year, Fourth, fifth, and sixth graders from Hunts Point put on a full-length Shakespeare play. This year’s production was “Romeo and Juliet.”
For the sixth year, Fourth, fifth, and sixth graders from Hunts Point put on a full-length Shakespeare play. This year’s production was “Romeo and Juliet.”
By Stephanie Litsas SLitsas089@gmail.com Hunts Point schoolchildren are speaking in Elizabethan English again. For the fourth year, The Hunts Point Alliance for Children (HPAC) has partnered with the Shakespeare Society, bringing fifth and sixth graders together to put on a full original Shakespeare play. The youngsters will perform Twelfth Night [...]
By Hannah Rappleye hannah.rappleye@gmail.com On a recent afternoon at The Point CDC, a young girl in a Catholic school uniform collapsed onto the ground. “Dear master,” cried 12-year-old Brooklyn Campbell. “I can go no further! O, I die for food! Here lie I down, and measure out my grave.” “Farewell, [...]