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RE:SHAKESPEARE

An App for Samsung and the Royal Shakespeare Company

We made an app to help young people unlock Shakespeare, by performing it.

Built with Samsung and the Royal Shakespeare Company, RE:Shakespeare is a tablet app for students aged 11 to 18. It features interactive games and videos hosted by RSC ambassador David Tennant, alongside mentors including actress Tamsin Greig, beatbox artist Shlomo, rapper and poet Akala, and RSC director Iqbal Khan. Each mentor unlocks Shakespeare's language differently, transforming difficult lines into lyrical challenges that invite students to reinterpret, remix, and perform them. Made with Cheil London and produced by UNIT9, the project replaces the distance between a student and the text with something more immediate: performance.


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SHAKESPEARE: Circular VR viewer graphic showing an ornate theatre stage set with a bed and antique furniture, framed within a darkened theatre auditorium with red seating, alongside an Android app on Google Play badge.
SHAKESPEARE: Purple quote card reading 'Shakespeare said: I have drunk poison whiles he uttered it' and 'And it means: I am drunk,' with swipe, share and close icons from the app's line-translation game.
A woman with short auburn hair, wearing a black lace-sleeve top, speaking and gesturing during a filmed video segment against a bare concrete wall.
A woman with short dark hair in a bun, wearing a black leather jacket, gesturing mid-speech in a room with a pink pendant light and film lighting stands visible behind her.
Wide view of a theatre stage set featuring a brick clock tower, a library and fireplace backdrop with portrait paintings, iron-frame beds, and film crew and camera equipment in the foreground.
Two hands holding a Samsung tablet displaying a 360° VR view of the theatre stage set, with the brick clock tower and library backdrop visible on screen.
Two hands holding a Samsung tablet showing the app's 360° VR panorama of the theatre set, with the clock tower and fireplace library visible on screen.