Something Is Rotten on the Avenue of Denmark

On the night of December 17, the gym of Prairie Creek Community School will be transformed into London in the year 1602.  Visitors will exchange their U.S. dollars for English Pence, learn how to speak Elizabethan English and then cross the Thames (by ferry or bridge) to enter a new world.

The Herons at Prairie Creek Community School have been working on a Shakespeare theme that they started in late October. Students have been reading plays and making a newspaper (or broadsheet, as it was known), planning a performance, memorizing lines and learning about Shakespeare and his time. They have also learned how to insult each other in the language that Shakespeare used.

To share their learning, they are inviting the community to a dinner theater and their production of Hamlet. Tickets are a pence (20 U.S. cents), just like the tickets for the Globe Theater.

We hope you can come.

By, Bella Viola and Henry Ganey, Students at Prairie Creek Community School