"No profit grows where is no pleasure taken."
(Taming of the Shrew, Act I)

Before he became the idol of English teachers, Shakespeare was a businessman who built a disparate group of actors into a successful company. Learn how he can enhance your business—

Meeting Breaks—There comes a point in any meeting when focus drifts, energy drops, and participants would agree with the characters in The Tempest, "You cram these words into mine ears!" Using theater games and some Shakespeare text, we'll get your audience energized by playing with some great language, up on their feet and re-focused on the task at hand.

"What You Say and What They Hear: A Communication Skills Workshop"—You communicate with more than content: "The smell of a rose is like the same, whatever you call it" may have the same content as "That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet," but it doesn't say the same thing, and isn't going to be remembered as well! Learn how Shakespeare used all the qualities of language—what it sounds like, what it "feels" like, what it makes you look like when you speak it—to communicate, and how you can build a speech so your audience will remember it.

"Constructing a Company: A Team-building Workshop"—Demonstrating how everyone's imagination is necessary to bring a text to life, Chicspeare's actors coach you and your co-workers into an ensemble which uses theater techniques as tools and a Shakespeare text as a blueprint to build a scene which is more than the sum of individuals' parts.