Workshops provide students and teachers with the opportunity to play with Shakespeare, employing Shakespearean insult competitions and selected scenes, while isolating and practicing concepts such as color, fresh-minting, antithesis, the emotion of wonder and high notes in the voice. All workshops are highly participatory. Come ready to play!

Workshops/$150 (30 students max)
Teachers Workshops/$500 for 2-3 hours

Workshop Testimonials
Catherine Evans, Bishop's College, Quebec
In the classroom Rodger is charismatic, funny, encouraging and engaging. He is a passionate believer in the importance of spoken communication; and as a result, our students began looking at the intricacies of speech in new ways.

Claire Bird, Nelson High School, Burlington
Not only did Rodger inspire the students to read and act out Shakespeare's plays, he taught communication skills through Shakespeare's language. Teachers have commented on how excited the students were, and how they are now actively practising their new communication skills.

Molly Cornwell, Hathaway Brown School, Ohio
"Rodger's teaching philosophy of "colouring" and "fresh-minting" made the texts so tangible that their confidence level in handling the language grew with each passing day."

Cathy Landry, St. Joseph's Catholic High School, Ottawa
"Rodger, your performance was tremendous! Everyone so loved it and the workshops were terrific too - what a wonderful learning experience for our students and teachers.

Duenther Brandt, Head of School at Frankfurt International School (FIS)"Your energy, enthusiasm and your ability to communicate have been so inspiring that I am sure your visit will stay with us for many months."

Toronto 'Reading for the Love of It Conference,' workshop participant, 2008
Your three-hour workshop, packed with useful ideas, entertaining examples and practical methods, was a revelation!

Greater Edmonton Teacher Convention Association evaluations of teacher workshop, 2007
- Wonderful, cutting to the chase. Efficient - a hopeful offer to teachers to truly do what they should - inspire their students.
- useful, passionate presentation.
- best session I've seen this year. So many useful things that I can incorporate in the classroom
- I was forced to come out of my "courage" box - thank goodness! I have learned so much and am inspired.
- I want to try this with my grade sevens.
- Hands-on, refreshing to bring something completely new into the classroom.
- Excellent overview and instruction. Demonstrated each concept. Very clear and encouraging. An expert!

Cathy Landry, Head of English, St. Joseph’s High School, Ottawa, Nov, 2007
Your "Prompts for Practice" as I call it are just tremendous for teachers. For the first time, teachers are taught how to teach Shakespeare - that is tremendous.

Iroquois Falls English Teacher Workshop
Rodger's excellent workshop was a fast-paced two hours that provided us with concrete tools to use when working with Shakespeare in the classroom.