Round Robin Shakespeare

Come help us read all 38 plays aloud!

Clamour Theatre Company is reviving Round Robin Shakespeare

From 2013 to 2019, a community of Shakespeare lovers met monthly to read their way through the canon. They read every play aloud and had a lot of fun doing it. Several of the members were instrumental in starting Clamour.

Beginning February 5, 2026, Clamour will host a new edition of RRS with a slightly different format, on the first Thursday of every month.

See the FAQs below for all the details.

What Are We Reading Next?

February 5, 2026, 6:30pm – HENRY VI, PT 1

Reservations are strongly encouraged. You can just show up. But, if you make a reservation, we will be able to notify you of cancellation or any changes.

Please note: If we have more than 2 events available for reservations at one time, you may not see all of them when you first click the red “Reservations” toggle. Just click in the white space between two events to force the widget to expand and display all available events.

For questions or assistance, please email boxoffice@clamourtheatre.org (and please tell us which play you are asking about or trying to reserve).

ACCESSIBILITY

FIUMC is wheelchair-accessible.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

In general, in 2026, we will meet on the first Thursday evening of each month from 6:30pm to 9:30pm. There may be a few exceptions. Please confirm dates here before you come — or, better yet, sign up to be notified by email.

We meet in the Admin West building of the Fleming Island United Methodist Church. Address is 7170 US Highway 17, Fleming Island, FL 32068.

The location is the west side of 17, a little south of Pat’s Nursery and a little north of Corky Bell’s restaurant.

Look for the Clamour yard sign to find the entrance you should use.

Any adult. Any gender. Any race. This is the ultimate in color-blind, gender-blind casting.
For this endeavor, we’ll conform to Elizabethan custom and count high school students as adults.
We don’t recommend this activity for younger children.  However, if you believe your child can read fluently enough to participate without slowing down the proceedings OR can amuse themselves quietly for up to 3 hours without distracting the group, let’s discuss.  You can send us an email at info@clamourtheatre.org

Reading Shakespeare — Out Loud — One play a month. Come for one, or come for all.

Because it’s fun. And when it’s done, we’ll be able to say we’ve read all of the plays. ALL of them!

At the beginning of the meeting, we sign up — first come, first serve — to read a specific role in Act 1.  If all Act 1 roles are filled, remaining readers sign up for roles in Act 2, etc. If there are not enough readers for all roles, people who read in Act 1 may sign up for a different role in a later act. Some people may read more than one role on nights when attendance is light.

Maybe.

We have 5 copies of the Oxford Complete Works, 1 Riverside, and sometimes a paperback or two of individual plays.  And, we are happy to share.

But if you want to be sure of having your own copy, you might want to bring one. Hard copy or digital is fine (although we do find that it’s easy to lose your place in a digital copy with an inadvertent swipe so you’ll need to be careful if reading from a tablet or phone)–and we usually don’t care which publisher you use (except that it’s nearly impossible to read RICHARD III if everyone is using a different  a different version–all other plays seem fine).

Whichever one you have. If there are slight differences among texts, we’ll figure it out. (Except RICHARD III. There seem to be major discrepancies among different versions of this one.

We have 5 copies of the Oxford Complete Works to share.  If you want your own copy, there are several sources:

Digital

Project Gutenberg Complete Works

Project Gutenbert individual plays – start here

MIT

Folger Shakespeare Library

Hard Copies

Hard copies are available from the usual suspects:

Your local library

Chamblin Bookmine – used book seller with several locations in the Jacksonville area

Bookstores

Amazon

Barnes & Noble

Ebay

Absolutely! This is fun and informal. We’re just going to read the play out loud. If you can read, you’ll be fine.

We’ll take you out back and boil you in oil. No, seriously, everybody stumbles over the words sometimes. We all do the best we can, and when we fumble, we laugh and go right on.

It’s not necessary. You can if you’d like. We don’t think it ever hurts to read Shakespeare aloud. However,you won’t know what characters you might be reading until you arrive.

Casual dress is perfect. We’d like it if the gentlemen came in doublet and hose, and the ladies made themselves miserable in corsets, stomachers, farthingales and petticoats, but it’s probably better that we should all be comfortable! If you have to come from work and be a little more formal, that’s okay, too.

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