Marin Shakespeare Camp
By Charles Miller, Glenwood School, 5th Grade
Imagine you’re in front of a big crowd and you feel great because you’re about to be part of something big. You’ve been working hard, learning lines and you know the show is going to great. The curtain opens and the large audience claps and cheers! You’re on stage at Marin Shakespeare’s summer camp performing a character in a Shakespeare play. Marin Shakespeare summer camp is a great camp to learn about Shakespeare and acting. It’s fun doing games and warm ups. On a typical day, first we get in a circle and start the warm ups. We stretch our faces and wake up our bodies. We do tongue twisters like, “At twenty to two”, “On a dank dark dock” and the very hard sock one that I forget the name of. After that we start practice on the play we’re doing. Last year, it was “Much Ado About Nothing” and I got the part Benedict. It’s cool that we get our own costumes. Playing Benedict was fun too. I liked mocking Beatrice and being a main character that gets tricked by Leonardo, Don Pedro, Claudius, and many others. Another year I played Nick Bottom, in a “Midsummer Nights Dream.” It’s fun to play different roles and pretend you are different characters. You do auditions before each play; they are exciting because you wonder what part you’ll get. You go up on stage and read a line they give you to read from the play; it’s very easy and not really scary because you’re going to get a part. All the people there are really nice and you will make many friends if you go to this camp, I did.