Spend a Week Being a Fool!

Seattle Shakespeare Company and ZinZanni Institute for Circus Arts to offer clowning camp February 15-19

SEATTLE - This winter students will have the opportunity to pratfall into the world of clowning when Seattle Shakespeare Company and ZinZanni Institute for Circus Arts present Shakespeare's Fools - a winter break camp for students 8-16. This week-long camp uses Shakespeare's comic characters as the basis for exploring the basics of clowning. Campers will explore movement, timing, and comedy through slapstick, acrobatics, circus skills and combat, and then apply their new skills to scenes and monologues of Shakespeare's great clowns.

The Shakespeare's Fools camp will be held at Teatro ZinZanni's antique Belgian spiegeltent February 15-19, 2009 from 9AM to 3PM. Local artists from Seattle Shakespeare Company and members of the international cast of Teatro ZinZanni will serve as camp instructors. The week culminates in a showcase-style performance by campers for family and friends in the spiegeltent.

"This Shakespeare's Fools camp is a perfect marriage of the physical aspects of comic performance partnered with the brilliance of the Bard's characters," says Markus Kunz, Managing Director of Teatro ZinZanni. "For students who love theatre, it will be a rare experience that they will remember all of their life. I mean, what could be better than spending a week learning to be a classical clown!"

Registration is going on now for the Shakespeare's Fools camp. Tuition is $350 per camper. Applications or more information can be found at zica.zinzanni.org or at seattleshakespeare.org or by calling (206) 733-8228 x212 or (206) 816-6491