Keystone Magazine Learning the Keystone Way 2015-2016 EN | Page 79

Beyond The Classroom
Reliving
Shakespeare:
Keystone Brings Macbeth to a
Contemporary Stage
“ T
ime hath, my lord,
a wallet at his back.
Wherein he puts
alms for oblivion.”
One of English lit-
erature’s mavericks,
William Shakespeare, perhaps
did not know when writing
these lines in his play, Troilus
and Cressida, that 400 years af-
ter his death the world would
still be his stage. His work – its
veracity, violence and viva-
ciousness – remains relevant
today, as it did centuries ago.
Keystone’s middle and high
school students led by Drama
teacher, Chloe Keller, recap-
tured one of the Bard’s best
plays – Macbeth – in a contem-
porary setting. Ms. Keller re-
envisioned this Shakespearean
tragedy from the Highlands of
Scotland to a present day high
school, and from the travails of
political ambitions to the tribu-
lations of teenagers and their
politics of life.
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