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LEFT: McNary sophomores Tristen Williams and Nicodemus Ashlock act out a scene during a workshop by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, which visited the high school Nov. 13-17. RIGHT: Kaileela
Hobby, a professional actor in New York City, leads McNary sophomores Lilian Garcia and Vanessa Acosta through a passage. BELOW: Actor David Huynh instructs a group of students.
Shakespeare Festival visits McNary
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
Kaileela Hobby and David
Huynh, two professional ac-
tors in New York City, were
back at McNary High School
for a week of teaching and
performing Shakespeare.
Working for the Oregon
Shakespeare Festival school
visit program, Hobby and
Huynh spent Nov. 13-17
leading workshops for Eng-
lish and intro to theatre stu-
dents.
The two workshops, Words
and Macbeth, were meant to
get students over any fears
they may have of Shakespeare.
“A big reason that this tour
exists is to help demystify
Shakespeare because people
have so many fears about it
and they think it’s not some-
thing that belongs to them,”
Huynh said. “We’re trying to
remind people that it’s Eng-
lish and they don’t have to be
scared of it.”
“And that they actually
understand it a lot better than
they think they do,” Hobby
said.
In Words, students begin
the class by reading differ-
ent passages in groups and
then are asked what different
phrases mean. By the end of
the workshop, they are acting
out the scenes.
“It’s incredible after one
read through sometimes, they
get it,” Huynh said. “They
just doubt themselves because
they have that ingrained fear
of Shakespeare.”
Hobby and Huynh per-
formed Juliet’s Journey, a
40-minute cut of Romeo and
Juliet, where they combine to
play all of the characters.
“I do a lot of educational
tours and I fi nd it the most
rewarding work as an actor,”
Hobby said. “I perform for
audiences who are paying
anywhere from $30 to $250
for tickets and these students
don’t necessarily have the
ability to do that. Sometimes
it’s their fi rst experience at
all with theatre, so that’s ex-
citing to me to bring theatre
and Shakespeare, something
I’m really passionate about, to
students.”
Hobby and Huynh began
the three-month tour in Oc-
tober in rural Oregon—Vale,
Burns and Culver.
They’ll spend December
in Woodburn and then Port-
land.
Since McNary is a part-
nership school, Hobby and
Huynh spent a full week in
Keizer, even attending the
drama department’s musical
The Wizard of Oz on Thursday.
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“It’s nice to get out of the
city and explore the country
a little bit,” Hobby said. “I
love working for the Oregon
Shakespeare Festival. They
take really good care of us.”
“Theatre is so much about
community,” Huynh added.
“It feels good to do the out-
reach and give back. That’s
one of the big reasons why I
love to do it.”
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