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Shakespeare at Winedale needs funding to support its 2025 season.
Since 1970, students and audiences have explored Shakespeare’s works in a barn in the Texas countryside in this celebrated UT English Department program. Students at Winedale learn about Shakespeare and themselves as they work collaboratively to stage some of the richest works of human culture. Shakespeare’s plays investigate profound questions of justice, government, love, family, and identity, questions still very relevant to students and audiences today.
Project funds will support student accommodations at the Winedale Historical Center, as well as the supplies and materials that go into creating Shakespeare’s plays onstage, from fabric for costumes to paper for play texts, from swords and armor to Gatorade and insect repellent. Generations of UT students have had life-changing encounters with Shakespeare through the Winedale program. Many of our audience members have been coming to Winedale every summer for decades in order to experience Shakespeare’s plays in this unique style and setting.
Your support will help us introduce new communities of students and audience members to Shakespeare through performance. For fifty-five years, Shakespeare at Winedale has served as a model for experiential learning. With the 2025 season, we aim to give the program’s mission of creativity and discovery its richest and fullest expression.
Please consider making a gift today to support our 2025 season!
To celebrate 20 years of Outreach with Shakespeare at Winedale
To honor the 125 students who performed in Outreach's Festival of Play!
To honor the 220 younger students who saw Outreach performers at in-school events last year!
To eulogize the number of Cheez-its in a box eaten during snack time by the Summer Class
To commemorate the 567 gallons of Gatorade drunk by the Summer Class
To celebrate the number of times that poor Yorick bore young Hamlet on his back
To honor of the total number of lines in the 2025 Spring Class play
To offset the cost of one away weekend stay at the Winedale Historical Center by the Spring Class**
To celebrate the number of stitches to takes to create a complete costume of doublet and hose
To underwrite the room and board for the Summer Class for one week of their summer residency at the Winedale Historical Center
