Shake It Up: The Shakespeare StoryTeller
Get creative and re-mix Shakespeare’s most loved scenes your own way. Macbeth mash-up anyone? Or maybe a Midsummer Night's Meme!
Shake It Up' lets you remix the work of the Bard. Cast a scene, give it your own spin and invent new endings.
Shake It Up!
Mash up Macbeth with Shake It Up, on the BBC’s creativity website Mixital.
Find the basic Shakespearean ingredients there: location, character and dialogue and mix them up and make them your own.
Then upload your creation back on the Mixital site, share it with your friends and watch the site become a 'do-tube' of great short animations.
Shake It Up is targetted at a teenager audience to help the BBC's public purpose of boosting the digital skills of young people, but everyone can have a go. Find out if you are a modern-day Macbeth or Lady Macbeth!
About 'Shake It Up'
"We’ve done it to Strictly, to Doctor Who and to EastEnders, now we’re doing it to Shakespeare. Britain’s cultural icons are becoming putty in the hands of a new young generation of digital dynamos!
we are challenging teenagers to take Shakespeare’s canon by the scruff of the neck and experiment
Shakespeare was the ultimate story-teller and his plays have a universal resonance, but many young people struggle with the language.
So we are challenging teenagers to take Shakespeare’s canon by the scruff of the neck and experiment..."
Find out more from the team behind Shake It Up: The Shakespeare Story Teller.
See Shake It Up in action
ShakeitUp - get creative with Shakespeare
Remix the work of the Bard. Cast a scene, give it your own spin and invent new endings.
Mixital: Shake it Up Shakespeare
Take Shakespeare’s canon by the scruff of the neck and experiment.
We in Team BBC Shakespeare couldn't resist having a go. Here's a very silly, simplistic take on Macbeth (loosely following the 5-act structure)...
We'll have a few more up soon - in the meantime, why not have a go yourself. Remix Shakespeare however you want!
Act I
Act II
Act III
Act IV
Act V
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