STUDENTS LEARN MEANING
OF JUSTICE THROUGH
SHAKESPEARE PROGRAM IN JOHN ADAMS COURTHOUSE
Forty
middle school students from The Harbor School in Dorchester
attended the first Discovering Justice through Shakespeare
program on January 24 in the Oliver Wendell Holmes Courtroom
in the John Adams Courthouse. Professional actors from
the Actors’ Shakespeare Project performed scenes
from “Hamlet”, “Henry IV,” “Macbeth” and “Romeo
and Juliet,” engaging the students in a discussion
of justice based on the themes in the plays. Appeals
Court Justice Gary Katzmann welcomed the students to
the courthouse and discussed the role of a judge, relating
the Shakespearean themes of justice to modern day legal
values and principles. The students then toured the John
Adams Courthouse with a professional volunteer docent.
A
second performance is scheduled for February 7 in the
John Adams Courthouse with eighty students from Ipswich
Middle School. The educational event is part of the Arts
and the Law program sponsored by Discovering Justice,
a non-profit organization dedicated to educating for
democracy by teaching about justice.
