Performance

The Nickel Shakespeare Girls started in 1999 at the North Carolina Renaissance Faire. Players for hire, a pair of Girls will perform at your Faire, Festival, school or event. On the “street,” we approach patrons, ask them to name any Shakespeare play, (or they can spin the Wheel Of Shakespeare!) and perform right on the spot. Our street work and shows include clowning, choral work, stage combat, and acrobalance. We take special requests and enjoy anything an audience can do to try to stump us. We play all day and perform anywhere.

Street Work

William Shakespeare’s words come alive for the young and old. Name any play written by Shakespeare and we will perform a selection: sometimes a fight, sometimes on our heads, sometimes delivered dramatically, but always with maximum energy and wild amounts of fun!

Stage Shows

We offer a variety of stage shows that can be modified to meet your needs. Each show can fit into a fast paced 30-minute time slot, but 45 minutes is an ideal amount of time to savor the richness and fun of the Bard’s text. And we love having post-show Q and A sessions!

Our shows:

• Pants & Poise: Meet many of Shakespeare’s leading ladies
• All the World’s a Stage: Selections from the “greatest hits”
• The Lunatic, the Lover & the Poet: Romance, infatuation and true love
• Little Fooleries: Shakespeare’s clowns amuse and beguile
• Complete Works: All 39 plays in about 35 minutes. Fast. Furious. Fun.

You may have seen us at:

• The Folger Shakespeare Library ( Washington DC )
• The St. George's Day Festival (St. George, Bermuda )
• The North Carolina Renaissance Faire
• The Carolina Renaissance Festival
• The Georgia Renaissance Festival
• The Arizona Renaissance Festival
• Elizabethan Tymes Renaissance Festival
• The Kentucky Highland Renaissance Faire
• The Kentucky Medieval Renaissance Faire
• Shakespeare and Friends Renaissance Faire (TN)
• A Camelot Christmas (Raleigh, NC)
• The Virginia Renaissance Faire
• University of South Carolina Union
• Festival for the Eno
• Pennsylvania Renaissance Festival
• Maryland Renaissance Festival
• Huntington Jaycees Indiana Renaissance Faire

To hire us, please contact us at info@nickelshakespearegirls.com or 919-500-8231.