一年一度的德威莎士比亚戏剧节是由 Rebecca Dorrington 老师以及视觉艺术表演教研组于五年前在我校开展的一项活动，现在这一活动已经成为所有德威学校中年度活动的一大亮点。在这五年时间里，苏州德威国际高中建立了一个强大的戏剧表演传统，并于每年都有不同的演出。今年，我校学生表演了莎士比亚的喜剧作品《皆大欢喜》。
今年的德威莎士比亚戏剧节在上海举行，戏剧节的前一周是为戏剧课外兴趣班同学们准备的莎士比亚戏剧周。今年的莎士比亚戏剧周有 3 个充满活力以及准备充分的莎士比亚戏剧作品表演，其中，剧目《皆大欢喜》是由 Rebecca Dorrington 老师导演的。在戏剧周期间，演员们为各个年级都表演了这一剧目，所有观众都沉浸在剧中人物鲜明的性格，错综复杂的爱情关系以及欢乐的剧情中而开怀大笑。
此次表演得到了广泛的好评和赞赏，同时也表现了学生们对表演者所付出的努力和时间的认同，尤其是我校 13 年级的学生，他们在学习，大学申请的同时，能够抽空准备戏剧表演的演出。
来自苏州德威国际高中的 17 名同学与其他 6 所德威学校的学生们，在 Dorrington 老师夫妇以及杨老师的带领下前往上海英国德威国际学校参加了今年的莎士比亚戏剧节。
在为期四天的活动中，学生们与英国皇家莎士比亚公司(RSC)的表演家们一起参加了各种研讨会，并有机会观看其他学校的莎士比亚戏剧表演。
对于我校学生来说，通过参加此次活动他们获得了宝贵、难忘的经历- 能够在其他德威学校的同学、老师面前进行表演。此次莎士比亚戏剧节对学生们来说无疑是一项挑战，无论是体能上还是精神上，对学生们的要求都非常高，学生们需要展现出他们的自信心，创造力，协作能力以及英语沟通技巧，使他们能够在此次艺术节上成为苏州国际高中的代言大使。
学生们最后的演出《皆大欢喜》为观众们留下了深刻的印象，得到了来自其它德威学校的学生、老师和 RSC 表演家以及导演的热烈掌声和非常积极的反馈。莎士比亚戏剧节对所有参加的学生、老师们来说都是一个非常有意义、有教育性和令人难忘的经历!
Annual Dulwich Shakespeare Festival
The annual Dulwich Shakespeare Festival was started in our school five years ago by Ms. Dorrington and the Visual and Performing Arts Department and has now become a highlight of the Dulwich-wide calendar of annual events. Our school does a different play every year and we have established a strong tradition of Shakespearean performances at DHSZ. The play that our students performed this year was the comedy As you like it.
The Dulwich Shakespeare Festival was held in Shanghai this year. For our Performing Arts Shakespeare Co-Curricular group, the week leading up to the festival was Shakespeare Festival week. It started with three energetic and well-prepared performances of Shakespeare’s great comedy, As you like it, directed by Ms. Rebecca Dorrington. At the start of the week, the players performed in front of each year group of the school and all the audiences laughed a lot at the comedic, physical characters and the complicated love story.
The performances were very well received and appreciated and showed our students’ appreciation of the effort and time that the performers put into the play, especially our nine Year 13 students who have excelled themselves by balancing their studies, university applications and the time required to prepare for the production.
The group of seventeen students, accompanied by Mrs. Dorrington, Mr. Dorrington and Ms. Yang, then went to Shanghai to participate in the Dulwich Shakespeare Festival in Dulwich College Shanghai with students from six other Dulwich Schools.
During the four days of the festival, the students attended various workshops with practitioners from the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in the UK, and had the opportunity to watch the range of Shakespeare performances from the other schools.
Our students also the exciting experience of performing in front of the students and teachers from across the Dulwich group. The festival was very demanding for our students, both physically and mentally, in terms of their confidence, creativity, collaboration and English communication skills, and they rose to the occasion, being outstanding ambassadors for DHSZ.
Our students’ final performance of As you like it was very impressive and received resounding applause and very positive feedback from the other Dulwich school students, teachers and the RSC actors and directors. Once again, the Shakespeare Festival was a very rewarding, educational and memorable experience for all who were involved!