英语演讲稿10篇("Mastering the Art of English Public Speaking: Strategies for Crafting Compelling Speeches")

English speeches have become an essential part of our lives, whether it's for academic, political, or social purposes. An effective English speech requires strong language skills, critical thinking, and the ability to captivate the audience. This article will provide valuable insights and tips on how to deliver an impactful English speech.

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my hometoic center of tibet. it has lots of famous sights to offer. the potala palace is the most famous, a magnificent and and bravery of our people.

secondly, led by the reforming and opening policy of china, lhasa has changed a lot. many neeto us? i don’t think so.

honor her and benete interested in this language because of her enlightenment. so many years have passed and miss zhang is still an ordinary primary school teacher e questions:

when the aerials are down , and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old ,even at 20 , but as long as your aerials are up ,to catch waves of optimism , there is hope you may die young at 80.

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you practiced over and over again; you e optimistic and expect the best to happen. it is certainly a state of mind that is well worth developing and strengthening.

so next time, you will practice just as much, still want it just as much, will study just as hard. what will be different is that you will also put on a smile. a positive attitude might just be the one thing that you need to succeed!

i am very happy to meet you here.it is my great honor to communicate prehensive abilities.if e an outstanding man. but there are some students still pletely forget their task as college students.

finally, i hope everybody can try their best to become a worthy person to our country, and make great contributions to the society!

第3篇

i am chinese. i am proud of being a chinese with five thousand years of civilization behind. ive learned about the four great inventions made by our forefathers. ive learned about the great wall and the yangtze river. ive learned about zhang heng and ive learned about zheng he.who says the yellow river civilization has vanished ?i know that my ancestors have made miracles on this fertile land and were still ma-ki-ng miracles. who can ignore the fact that we have established ourselves as a great state in the world, that we have devised our own nuclear weapons, that we have successfully sent our satellites into space, and that our gnp ranks no. 7 in the world? we have experienced the plunders by other nations, and we have experienced the war. yet, based on such ruins, there still stands our nation----china, unyielding and unconquerable!

i once came acroan american tourist. she said, “china has a history of five thousand years, but the us only has a history of 200 years. five thousand years ago, china took the lead in the world, and now it is the us that is leading.”my heart was deeply touched by these words. it is true that were still a developing nation, but it doesnt mean that we can despise ourselves. we have such a long-standing history, we have such abundant resources, we have such intelligent and diligent people, and we have enough to be proud of. we have reasons to say proudly： we are sure to take the lead in the world in the future again, for our problems are big, but our ambition is even bigger, our challenges are great, but our will is evengreater.

i am chinese. i have inherited black hair and blackeyes. i have inherited the virtues of my ancestors. i have also taken over responsibility. i am sure, that wherever i go, whatever i do, i shall never forget that i am chinese!

第4篇

tonight i want to talk to you on a subject of deep concern to all americans and to many people in all parts of the world, the war in vietnam.

i believe that one of the reasons for the deep division about vietnam is that many americans have lost confidence in what their government has told them about our policy. the american people cannot and should not be asked to support a policy which involves the overriding issues of war and peace unless they know the truth about that policy.

tonight, therefore, i would like to answer some of the questions that i know are on the minds of many of you listening to me.

how has this administration changed the policy of the previous administration?

what has really happened in the negotiations in paris and the battlefront in vietnam?

now let me begin by describing the situation i found when i was inaugurated on jan. 20th: the war had been going on for four years. thirty-one thousand americans had been killed in action. the training program for the south vietnamese was behind schedule. five hundred forty-thousand americans were in vietnam with no plans to reduce the number. no progress had been made at the negotiations in paris and the united states had not put forth a comprehensive peace proposal.

the war was causing deep division at home and criticism from many of our friend, as well as our enemies, abroad.

in view of these circumstances, there were some who urged withdrawal of all american forces. from a political standpoint, this would have been a popular and easy course to follow. after all, we became involved in the war while my predecessor was in office. i could blame the defeat, which would be the result of my action, on him -- and come out as the peacemaker. some put it to me quite bluntly: this was the only way to avoid allowing johnson’s war to become nixon’s war.

but i had a greater obligation than to think only of the years of my administration, and of the next election. i had to think of the effect of my decision on the next generation, and on the future of peace and freedom in america, and in the world.

let us all understand that the question before us is not whether some americans are for peace and some americans are against peace. the question at issue is not whether johnson’s war becomes nixon’s war. the great question is: how can we win america’s peace?

well, let us turn now to the fundamental issue: why and how did the united states become involved in vietnam in the first place? fifteen years ago north vietnam, with the logistical support of communist china and the soviet union , launched a campaign to impose a communist government on south vietnam by instigating and supporting a revolution.

in response to the request of the government of south vietnam, president eisenhower sent economic aid and military equipment to assist the people of south vietnam in their efforts of prevent a communist takeover. seven years ago, president kennedy sent 16,000 military personnel to vietnam as combat advisers. four years ago, president johnson sent american combat forces to south vietnam.

now many believe that president johnson’s decision to send american combat forces to south vietnam was wrong. and many others, i among them, have been strongly critical of the way the war has been conducted.

but the question facing us today is -- now that we are in the war, what is the best way to end it?

in january i could only conclude that the precipitate withdrawal of all american forces from vietnam would be a disaster not only for south vietnam but for the united states and for the cause of peace.

for the south vietnamese, our precipitate withdrawal would inevitably allow the communists to repeat the massacres which followed their takeover in the north 15 years before. they then murdered more than 50,000 people and hundreds of thousands more died in slave labor camps.

we saw a prelude of what would happen in south vietnam when the communists entered the city of hue last year. during their brief rule there, there was a bloody reign of terror in which 3,000 civilians were clubbed, shot to death, and buried in mass graves.

with the sudden collapse of our support, these atrocities at hue would become the nightmare of the entire nation and particularly for the million-and-a half catholic refugees who fled to south vietnam when the communists took over in the north.

for the united states this first defeat in our nation’s history would result in a collapse of confidence in american leadership not only in asia but throughout the world.

three american presidents have recognized the great stakes involved in vietnam and understood what had to be done.

in 1963 president kennedy with his characteristic eloquence and clarity said we want to see a stable government there, carrying on the struggle to maintain its national independence.

we believe strongly in that. we are not going to withdraw from that effort. in my opinion, for us to withdraw from that effort would mean a collapse not only of south vietnam but southeast asia. so we’re going to stay there.

president eisenhower and president johnson expressed the same conclusion during their terms of office.

for the future of peace, precipitate withdrawal would be a disaster of immense magnitude. a nation cannot remain great if it betrays its allies and lets down its friends. our defeat and humiliation in south vietnam without question would promote recklessness in the councils of those great powers who have not yet abandoned their goals of world conquest. this would spark violence wherever our commitments help maintain the peace -- in the middle east, in berlin, eventually even in the western hemisphere. ultimately, this would cost more lives. it would not bring peace. it would bring more war.

for these reasons i rejected the recommendation i should end the war by immediately withdrawing all of our forces. i chose instead to change american policy on both the negotiating front and the battle front in order to end the war on many fronts. i initiated a pursuit for peace on many fronts. in a television speech on may 14, in a speech before the united nations, on a number of other occasions, i set forth our peace proposals in great detail.

we have offered the complete withdrawal of all outside forces within one year. we have proposed to cease fire under international supervision. we have offered free elections under international supervision with the communists participating in the organization and conduct of the elections as an organized political force.

and the saigon government has pledged to accept the result of the election.

we have not put forth our proposals on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. we have indicated that we’re willing to discuss the proposals that have been put forth by the other side. we have declared that anything is negotiable, except the right of the people of south vietnam to determine their own future.

at the paris peace conference ambassador lodge has demonstrated our flexibility and good faith in 40 public meetings. hanoi has refused even to discuss our proposals. they demand our unconditional acceptance of their terms which are that we withdraw all american forces immediately and unconditionally and that we overthrow the government of south vietnam as we leave.

we have not limited our peace initiatives to public forums and public statements. i recognized in january that a long and bitter war like this usually cannot be settled in a public forum.

that is why in addition to the public statements and negotiations, i have explored every possible private avenue that might lead to a settlement.

tonight, i am taking the unprecedented step of disclosing to you some of our other initiatives for peace, initiatives we undertook privately and secretly because we thought we thereby might open a door which publicly would be closed.

i did not wait for my inauguration to begin my quest for peace. soon after my election, through an individual who was directly in contact on a personal basis with the leaders of north vietnam, i made two private offers for a rapid, comprehensive settlement.

hanoi’s replies called in effect for our surrender before negotiations. since the soviet union furnishes most of the military equipment for north vietnam, secretary of stare rogers, my assistant for national security affairs, dr. kissinger; ambassador lodge and i personally have met on a number of occasions with representatives of the soviet government to enlist their assistance in getting meaningful negotiations started.

in addition, we have had extended discussions directed toward that same end with representatives of other governments which have diplomatic relations with north vietnam.

none of these initiatives have to date produced results. in mid-july i became convinced that it was necessary to make a major move to break the deadlock in the paris talks.

i spoke directly in this office, where i’m now sitting, with an individual who had known ho chi minh on a personal basis for 25 years. through him i sent a letter to ho chi minh.

i did this outside the usual diplomatic channels with the hope that with the necessity of making statements for propaganda removed, there might be constructive progress toward bringing the war to an end.

“i realize that it is difficult to communicate meaningfully across the gulf of four years of war. but precisely because of this gulf i wanted to take this opportunity to reaffirm in all solemnity my desire to work for a just peace. i deeply believe that the war in vietnam has gone on too long and delay in bringing it to an end can benefit no one, least of all the people of vietnam. the time has come to move forward at the conference table toward an early resolution of this tragic war. you will find us forthcoming and open-minded in a common effort to bring the blessings of peace to the brave people of vietnam. let history record that at this critical juncture both sides turned their face towards peace rather than toward conflict and war."

i received ho chi minh’s reply on aug. 30, three days before his death. it simply reiterated the public position north vietnam had taken at paris and flatly rejected my initiative. the full text of both letters is being released to the press.

in addition to the public meetings that i’ve referred to, ambassador lodge has met with vietnam’s chief negotiator in paris in 11 private sessions.

and we have taken other significant initiatives which must remain secret to keep open some channels of communications which may still prove to be productive.

but the effect of all the public, private and secret negotiations which have been undertaken since the bombing halt a year ago, and since this administration came into office on jan. 20, can be summed up in one sentence: no progress whatever has been made except agreement on the shape of the bargaining table.

well, now, who’s at fault? it’s becoming clear that the obstacle in negotiating an end to the war is not the president of the united states. it is not the south vietnamese government. the obstacle is the other side’s absolute refusal to show the least willingness to join us in seeking a just peace.

and it will not do so while it is convinced that all it has to do is to wait for our next concession, and our next concession after that one, until it gets everything it wants.

there can now be no longer any question that progress in negotiation depends only on hanoi ’s deciding to negotiate -- to negotiate seriously.

i realize that this report on our efforts on the diplomatic front is discouraging to the american people, but the american people are entitled to know the truth -- the bad news as well as the good news -- where the lives of our young men are involved.

now let me turn, however, to a more encouraging report on another front. at the time we launched our search for peace, i recognized we might not succeed in bringing an end to the war through negotiations. i therefore put into effect another plan to bring peace -- a plan which will bring the war to an end regardless of what happens on the negotiating front.

it is in line with the major shift in u. s. foreign policy which i described in my press conference at guam on july 25.

let me briefly explain what has been described as the nixon doctrine -- a policy which not only will help end the war in vietnam but which is an essential element of our program to prevent future vietnams.

we americans are a do-it-yourself people -- we’re an impatient people. instead of teaching someone else to do a job, we like to do it ourselves. and this trait has been carried over into our foreign policy.

in korea, and again in vietnam, the united states furnished most of the money, most of the armament and most of the men to help the people of those countries defend their freedom against communist aggressions.

before any american troops were committed to vietnam, a leader of another asian country expressed this opinion to me when i was traveling in asia as a private citizen.

he said: “when you are trying to assist another nation defend its freedom, united states policy should be to help them fight the war, but not to fight the war for them.”

well in accordance with this wise counsel, i laid down in guam three principles of guidelines for future american policy toward asia .

second, we shall provide a shield if a nuclear power threatens the freedom of a nation allied with us, or of a nation whose survival we consider vital to our security.

third, in cases involving other types of aggression we shall furnish military and economic assistance when requested in accordance with our treaty commitments. but we shall look to the nation directly threatened to assume the primary responsibility of providing the manpower for its defense.

i pledge to you tonight that i shall meet this responsibility with all of the strength and wisdom i can command, in accordance with your hopes, mindful of your concerns, sustained by your prayers.

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i’m very glad to make a speech here. today my topic is “i love you, china.”

since the day i municate forting the bottom of her heart! then, there came the gentle voice of hers: no, no, no… her head shaking, mon in northes, the etimes clouds of dust blur the vision, and little kids cannot find their ways. it’s like the end of the world.

we know it is mother nature’s revenge on what we have done to her. in order to see blue sky and sunny spring again, we should plant more trees and more grass to protect the environment. and it is not too late if we start right now.

though it’s a hard job to fight against the sandstorm, it is the battle we must fight, and it is a battle we must win!

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five score years ago, a great american, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the emancipation proclamation. this momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. it came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.

but one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the negro is still not free. one hundred years later, the life of the negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. one hundred years later, the negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. one hundred years later, the negro is still languishing in the corners of american society and finds himself an exile in his own land. so we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.

in a sense we have come to our nations capital to cash a check. when the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the constitution and the declaration of independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every american was to fall heir. this note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

it is obvious today that america has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. instead of honoring this sacred obligation, america has given the negro people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." but we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. we refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

so we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.

we have also come to this hallowed spot to remind america of the fierce urgency of now. this is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of gods children. now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.

it would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the negro. this sweltering summer of the negros legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning.

those who hope that the negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. there will be neither rest nor tranquility in america until the negro is granted his citizenship rights. the whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

but there is something that i must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. in the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

we must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. we must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

the marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.

we cannot walk alone.and as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. we cannot turn back. there are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "when will you be satisfied?" we can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. we cannot be satisfied as long as the negros basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. we can never be satisfied as long as a negro in mississippi cannot vote and a negro in new york believes he has nothing for which to vote. no, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

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good morning/afternoon, dear teachers and my friends. i’m a student from no.2 middle school of qugou. my name is zhao bingjie. i’m very glad to stand here to make a short speech for you. today my speech topic is “embrace the dream”.

many people have a dream about the future besides me. i had a beautiful dream since i was a young little girl. i really want to be an outstanding writer like guo jingming in the future, because i liked reading very much when i was a child. so, i practice writing articles in my free time, by doing that i feel very comfortable. i love my dream and i will try my best to make my dream come true.

it’s about my dream, what about you? do you have a dream? do you think everyone has their own dreams? in fact, you are wrong. many people never thought about future and what they will be like. they never have a dream . it’s not good for them. only have dreams, then we can know what we should do for our dreams and try our best to make them true. so, it’s important and necessary to have a dream.

someone once said that success comes from a dream. so, fellow students, let’s have a dream, and embrace the dream. then, we will have a beautiful tomorrow!

第8篇

consider the lowly toilet. many of you may not think of the toilet as a form of technology if you think of toilets at all. but, it is and has contributed greatly to the improved health and overall quality of life for mankind.

on a recent trip to japan, i was impressed by, among other things, a gadget in most public women's restrooms, called otohime or sound princess. this device produces the sound of flushing water without the need for actual flushing. the technology saves the user both the embarrassment of being heard during urination and some 20 liters of water per use in cases where a woman might flush the toilet continuously while using it.

every time i used otohime, i felt like a princess, an environmentalist princess on the toilet.

it was a longed for feeling. over the past decade, i shuffled in and out of many kinds of public restrooms in china--filthy smelly water closets in outlying areas, spacious luxurious lavatories in five-star hotels, forever-occupied girls' stalls on campus during school, and smart modern mobile toilets in international fairs. but not one single "room" evoked my pride of being a princess.

and i knew why the sound princess had. it was not because of the high technology the small bathroom boasted which is becoming ubiquitous worldwide. it was the idealism embodied in the technology that keeps reminding me that in this ever-changing world, i am a responsible and dignified human being even when sitting on a toilet.

humanism, no matter how it is defined, aims to strike a balance between us being at the mercy of nature and being too human-centered. in my case, i haven't relieved myself under a tree for a while. i am a proud, dutiful chinese citizen. gone are the days when people just found a corner to do their business resulting in poor sanitation and threats to public health. the otohimetechnology renders me two warnings: first, i am a humble human being with an obligation to save not only my face but also natural resources. second, there is still a long way to go in my own country not just in developing technology and the economy, but also in upholding human dignity and promoting human welfare. take the toilet: dirty, crowdedtoilets shall, at least, give way to clean, human-friendly ones.

fortunately, i have seen improvements. at shanghai world expo 2010, 8,000 toilets, all modern and technologically sophisticated, were installed across the site. what really delighted the visitors, however, was the user-friendly design and services. toilets were situated every 100 meters. several hundred volunteers served as toilet guides and sanitation workers. the ratio of female to male toilet space was set at 2.5 to 1. soft music was played in the toilets. all this seems to celebrate the glory of comprehensive humanism.

ladies and gentlemen, science and technology are here to improve earthly life and maximize human happiness. when our world benefits from technology, coupled with human considerations, we are bound to enjoy our life. conversely, we suffer.

the toilet is a piece of sanitaryware and the quintessence of humanism that underlies technological innovation. like gnp, employment rates, and space exploration efforts, the lowly equipment is an equally important measure of a progressive society. when on a toilet if we feel like a princess, we shall be proud of living in a society that values humanity. if not, we must stand up and make some changes.

and if you are still baffled with what i have said, i suggest you take off right now and go experience the bathrooms in this auditorium, because they are what makes our life beautiful or ugly, humanism considered or ignored.

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ladies and gentlemen , good afternoon! i’m very glad to stand here and give you a short speech. today my topic is “youth”. i hope you inance of courage over timidity of the appetite , for adventure over the love of ease. this often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20 . nobody gro men and from the infinite, so long as you are young .

es from every detail in our life . financial problems , poor health , being laid off may be the stress that most adults noe other problems will also annoy us . i think we will worry a lot about our ability to compete in the job market and how we can best use what we’ve learned at college in our future job .

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this year's four hundredth anniversary of the death of william shakespeare is not just an opportunity to commemorate one of the greatest playwrights of all time. it is a moment to celebrate the extraordinary ongoing influence of a man who – to borrow from his own description of julius caesar – "doth bestride the narrow world like a colossus."

shakespeare's legacy is without parallel: his works translated into over 100 languages and studied by half the world's schoolchildren. as one of his contemporaries, ben jonson, said: "shakespeare is not of an age, but for all time." he lives today in our language, our culture and society – and through his enduring influence on education.

shakespeare played a critical role in shaping modern english and helping to make it the world's language. the first major dictionary compiled by samuel johnson drew on shakespeare more than any other writer. three thousand new words and phrases all first appeared in print in shakespeare's plays. i remember from my own childhood how many of them are found for the first time in henry v. words like dishearten, divest, addiction, motionless, leapfrog – and phrases like "once more unto the breach", "band of brothers" and "heart of gold" – have all passed into our language today with no need to reference their original context. shakespeare also pioneered innovative use of grammatical form and structure – including verse without rhymes, superlatives and the connecting of existing words to make new words, like bloodstained – while the pre-eminence of his plays also did much to standardise spelling and grammar.

but shakespeare's influence is felt far beyond our language. his words, his plots and his characters continue to inspire much of our culture and wider society. nelson mandela, while a prisoner on robben island, cherished a quote from julius caesar which said "cowards die many times before their death, the valiant never taste of death but once." while kate tempest's poem "my shakespeare" captures the eternal presence of shakespeare when she wrote that shakespeare "…is in every lover who ever stood alone beneath a window…every jealous whispered word and every ghost that will not rest." shakespeare's influence is everywhere, from dickens and goethe to tchaikovsky, verdi and brahms; from west side story to the hamlet-inspired title of agatha christie's "the mousetrap" – the longest-running theatre production in london's west end today. while his original plays continue to entertain millions – from school halls across the world to the overnight queues as hundreds scrambled for last minute tickets to see benedict cumberbatch playing hamlet at london's barbican last year.

but perhaps one of the most exciting legacies of shakespeare is his capacity to educate. as we see from the outreach work of the royal shakespeare company and shakespeare's globe and the impact of pioneering british charities like the shakespeare schools festival, studying and performing shakespeare can help improve literacy, confidence and wider educational attainment.

every day throughout 2016, britain is inviting you to join us in celebrating the life and legacy of william shakespeare. on 5 january, twelfth night, we launched "shakespeare lives" – an exciting global programme of activity and events to highlight his enduring influence and extend the use of shakespeare as an educational resource to advance literacy around the world.

the programme will run in more than seventy countries, led by the british council and the great britain campaign. you can share your favourite moment of shakespeare on social media, watch never-before-seen performances on stage, film and online, visit exhibitions, take part in workshops and debates, and access new shakespearean educational resources to get to grips with the english language.

the royal shakespeare company will tour china; shakespeare's globe will perform across the world from iraq to denmark. young people will reimagine shakespeare in zimbabwe. a social media campaign called "play your part" (#playyourpart) will invite the next generation of creative talent to produce their own digital tribute to the bard – and, in partnership with the british charity voluntary services overseas, we will raise awareness of the huge challenge of global child illiteracy and use shakespeare to increase educational opportunities for children around the world.

beyond the great gift of language, the bringing to life of our history, his ongoing influence on our culture and his ability to educate, there is just the immense power of shakespeare to inspire. from the most famous love story to the greatest tragedy; from the most powerful fantasy to the wittiest comedy; and from the most memorable speeches to his many legendary characters, in william shakespeare we have one man, whose vast imagination, boundless creativity and instinct for humanity encompasses the whole of the human experience as no one has before or since.

so, however you choose to play your part, please join us in 2016 in this unique opportunity to celebrate the life and enduring legacy of this man; ensuring that, as he himself put it, "all the world's a stage" and that through his legacy, truly, shakespeare lives.