THE CRAFTSBURY (now GREENSBORO!)  FUNNERY

In 2021, A Midsummer Night's Dream inspired great conversations about
climate change. In 2022, Hamlet helped us unpack deep feelings about grief,
generational mistrust, our hold on mental health...

​"Thank you for giving me the best two weeks of my year. When I came to Funnery this summer I was tired and stressed, I just wanted to stay locked in my room and sleep for 100 years. When I left camp, I had discovered who I was . . . and I was stronger and confident and ready for a new start in life. "       
​~A Camper

​Sometimes a pandemic can yield an unexpected benefit. When we took our Funnery online in 2020, that let us collaborate with the Thespo youth theatre company in Mumbai, India. Check out the AWESOME video about them on their homepage. We worked well together, and learned so much. After camp, we collaborated some more. Eventually we hope to bring Thespo actors to Vermont.

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In 2022  Hamlet captured us with assassinations, palace intrigue, ghosts, crazy love into gaslighting, friends spying on friends, dueling, dumb shows, and awesome famous speeches!
We took it all on. 

TWELFTH NIGHT  in 2023

HERE is the Craftsbury Funnery 
(takes place in Greensboro now!)
2023 REGISTRATION FORM
Ohhh, sorry, too late to sign up now!

​twelfth_night_2023.pdf    THIS SUMMER'S SCRIPT IS HERE --look to the left! 

We have a new project up & running;
(you can jump in and help out!):
We're collaborating with the
John Woodruff Simpson Library
in East Craftsbury, 
to archive and display the work of
Miss Jean Simpson, who first brought
​Youth Shakespeare to the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont—in 1923!
This hundredth anniversary exhibition has support from Vermont Humanities. THANK YOU!

The photo on the left is by Edward Steichen, Miss Jean's great friend.