"Shakespearience" was a unified performance from Year 11 Drama students of selected extracts from Shakespeare's tragedies. The evening was a wonderful success, as the Drama students met the challenge of their task commendably.
See photos below.
Guess what! - Reading Shakespeare is GOOD for the brain!
Scientists have shown that reading the Bard and other classical writers has beneficial effects on the mind. They say that their research provides valuable lessons for the education system and for all those who want to keep their minds active.
Works from Shakespeare, Chaucer and Wordsworth challenge readers because of their unusual words, tricky sentence structure and the repetition of phrases.
English professors at Liverpool University who teamed up with neuroscientists armed with brain-imaging equipment found that this challenge causes the brain to light up with electrical activity. Professor Philip Davis, who led the study at the university's department of English, said: "The brain appears to become baffled by something unexpected in the text that jolts it into a higher level of thinking."
So imagine if you commit Shakespeare to memory as our Shakespearience girls did, how brilliantly active your brain would be!
Notice the difference in the two brains below!
Congratulations to all the Year 11 students who participated in SHAKESPEARIENCE.
