Student Feedback on the Ethical Leadership Workshop:

‘I learnt a lot about myself and about ethical leadership, and what it means to lead ethically.’
‘I have an entirely new and different perspective on Shakespeare’s works (for the better), and am very grateful that I got the opportunity to look at and learn about his work with such insight.’

‘My fellow grade elevens who attended this workshop with me are some of the greatest students I have ever met, and I look forward to seeing how each and every one of us contribute to making the world a better place by being ethical leaders.’

‘I liked how we got an opportunity to write and discuss our opinions (which were actually listened to and appreciated).’

‘I finished the week knowing that I can be a greater leader and had acquired more and strengthened my leadership skills.’

‘The week went very well; it was very exciting. I would like to rate the workshop 10 of 10.  Even the food was good!’

The Robben Island Shakespeare's Ethical Leadership Workshop, Wynberg Boys High School, Cape Town South Africa 3 to 7 October

The Robben Island Bible Ethical Leadership Workshop

Playwright and drama facilitator Matthew Hahn was invited by the Shakespeare in Schools Festival South Africa and supported by the British Council to facilitate a five day interactive theatre workshop for young people that examines current leadership on a personal, community, national and international level.

A group of 11 Grade 11 students were selected for their potential for creative and principled leadership. The students came from a variety of backgrounds, with the Chris Hani Arts and Culture School in Khayelitsha township, Islamia College and Wynberg Boys High being among the schools represented. 

This new generation of young leaders spent a week of their school holidays learning lessons from the experiences of political prisoners on Robben Island and a variety of Shakespeare’s characters.

The workshop culminated in a performance of selected Shakespearean quotes, extracts from the play, The Robben Island Bible including monologues based on interviews with former political prisoners on Robben Island and new pieces of writing created by the young people.

I am currently compiling feedback as well as creating a booklet of the newly created pieces of creative writing to be published on this blog in the near future.

For more information about this or future workshops, please visit here.

The Robben Island Shakespeare's Ethical Leadership Workshop, Wynberg Boys High School, Cape Town South Africa 3 to 7 October

The Robben Island Bible Ethical Leadership Workshop

Playwright and drama facilitator Matthew Hahn was invited by the Shakespeare in Schools Festival South Africa and supported by the British Council to facilitate a five day interactive theatre workshop for young people that examines current leadership on a personal, community, national and international level.

A group of 11 Grade 11 students were selected for their potential for creative and principled leadership. The students came from a variety of backgrounds, with the Chris Hani Arts and Culture School in Khayelitsha township, Islamia College and Wynberg Boys High being among the schools represented. 

This new generation of young leaders spent a week of their school holidays learning lessons from the experiences of political prisoners on Robben Island and a variety of Shakespeare’s characters.

The workshop culminated in a performance of selected Shakespearean quotes, extracts from the play, The Robben Island Bible including monologues based on interviews with former political prisoners on Robben Island and new pieces of writing created by the young people.

I am currently compiling feedback as well as creating a booklet of the newly created pieces of creative writing to be published on this blog in the near future.

For more information about this or future workshops, please visit here.

Student Principles [created by the Ethical Leadership participants 6 October 2016]

New Stage Idioms: South African Drama, Theatre and Performance in the Twenty-first Century, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium, May 11-13, 2017.

My research paper, “The Research, Development and Production History of The Robben Island Shakespeare,” has been accepted for presentation at the Université Libre de Bruxelles’s international conference, New Stage Idioms: South African Drama, Theatre and Performance in the Twenty-first Century in May 2017.

The ‘Ethical Leadership Workshop' in Cape Town, October 2017

The ‘Ethical Leadership Workshop' is based on a copy of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare on Robben Island in the 1970's commonly referred to as 'The Robben Island Bible'.  This workshop explores the theme of ethical leadership with young people through the works of William Shakespeare as well as verbatim interviews with some of the former political prisoners on Robben Island.   

The aim of the workshop is to benefit the students through being inspired to be better ethical leaders through the words of Shakespeare & the former political prisoners and to create a pathway to future ethical leadership.  The students examine what lessons can be learned and applied by today’s and tomorrow’s leaders.

For more information about the workshop, please see:

http://robbenislandbible.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/summary-document-of-ethical-leadership.html

and 

http://robbenislandbible.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/feedback-on-ethical-leadership-workshop.html

The Robben Island Bible exhibition at Going Global Conference, British Council in Cape Town

John Kani speaking at the Going Global Conference, Cape Town.