The Hobart Shakespeareans

*The Hobart Shakespeareans*
The Hobart Shakespeareans
	Michael York
Original language	English
Production
Producer	Mel Stuart
Cinematography	Alex Rotaru
Editor	Alex Rotaru

The Hobart Shakespeareans of Hobart Boulevard Elementary School^[1] is a 2005 documentary film that tells the story of the inspirational inner-city Los Angeles school teacher Rafe Esquith whose rigorous fifth-grade curriculum includes English, mathematics, geography, and literature. The pinnacle of student achievement each year is the performance of a play by William Shakespeare; in the year of filming, that play was Hamlet.

The Hobart Shakespeareans drew the attention of renowned Shakespearean actors

Michael York, who pay a visit to the class to watch their performance of Hamlet. Delighted with the students, York calls the Hobart Shakespeareans "one of the great Shakespeare troupes" in Los Angeles.^[2]

Rafe and the Hobart Shakespeareans work every year to perform a

Shakespeare play. The recent plays they have performed were As You Like It and The Merchant of Venice

.

The Hobart Shakespeareans aired on

P.O.V. series in 2005. It was produced and directed by Mel Stuart

.