2025 Shakespeare Competition Kansas City Branch Finals
February 23 @ 2:00 pm – 7:00 pm
High School students in the KC Metro area will be competing for First Place.
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2025 marks the 41st year for The English-Speaking Union’s Shakespeare Competition in Kansas City. Registration is underway for all Kansas City Metro High Schools and Home School Programs to enter the Shakespeare Competition. The deadline to register your school is February 7, 2025. Is your high school participating in the 2025 ESU Shakespeare Competition?
This Competition is designed to develop students’ speaking and critical-thinking skills while they explore the beauty of the language and the timeless themes in Shakespeare’s works. By preparing a monologue and sonnet for public presentation, students bring Shakespeare to life in their own way and learn to express his works with understanding, clarity and feeling.
This performance-based education program unites students in our Branch’s territory with students in other ESU Branches nationwide, on average reaching approximately 15,000 teenagers in over 800 schools and home school organizations across the United States.
Click here to learn more and register your school in the 2025 Shakespeare Competition.