OPRF Shakespeare Slam Team Wins First in Battle of the Bard Competition

Submitted by Oak Park and River Forest High School.

Beating out 30 other schools, the 2015 OPRF Shakespeare Slam team took first place in Chicago Shakespeare Theatre’s Battle of the Bard on Tuesday evening.

The 7-student team performed the first scene of Taming of the Shrew and a 7-play ensemble mash-up piece entitled “The Seven Ages of Shakespeare.”

The team’s renditions had the 350 people gathered around Chicago Shakespeare’s main stage roaring and then enraptured.

Photo: the winning team (front, l to r) Jeremy Pesigan, Colin Ford, Olivia Zapater-Charette, and Dallas Koelling; (back, l to r) Sophia Carlin and Kelly Cerniglia.

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