The Bardlings
The Bardlings are the junior acting company of the Southern Shakespeare Company, composed of middle and high school students. With a staged “Showcase” in the Fall and a performance at the Southern Shakespeare Festival in the Spring, the Bardlings perform twice a year, in addition to workshops, guest lectures, and community-theatre based field trips.
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The Bardlings are the junior acting company of the Southern Shakespeare Company, composed of middle and high school students. With a staged “Showcase” in the Fall and a performance at the Southern Shakespeare Festival in the Spring, the Bardlings perform twice a year, in addition to workshops, guest lectures, and community-theatre based field trips.
Follow The Bardlings on Facebook to stay updated on their projects and performance!
2020-2021 Season
In Fall of 2020 The Bardlings program transitioned online for an exciting project, The Bardlings Community Connection. With a focus on theatre and social change, The Bardlings explored the power of art to tell stories, create hope, and inspire change. We enjoyed a multitude of workshops, guest lectures, and presentations surrounding respect, diversity, inclusion, storytelling, justice, theatre skills, and of course, Shakespeare!
For our Spring 2021 semester, The Bardlings will write and rehearse the 5th edition of ShakespeaREtold, a collection of Shakespearean scenes which Bardlings will study, and rewrite with a focus on themes that will inspire social change – this performance will be pre-filmed and screened at the 2021 Southern Shakespeare Festival.
Several past Bardlings projects and performances can be viewed on the Southern Shakespeare Company Youtube channel
Interested in Joining the Bardlings?
The Bardlings run from September-May with opportunities to audition and join in September and January. Please regularly check our Auditions page for updates on when Bardlings will begin accepting applications for Fall of 2021.