King’s High School pupils Gregor Watts (left), as Helena, and Harvey Rawlings, as Demetrius, perform in a scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream during the Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival 2024 at the King’s and Queen’s Performing Arts Centre in Dunedin... : Pupils strut, fret their hour upon stage

Quinn Wilson (left), as Laertes, and Ren Williamson, as King Claudius, both of Logan Park High School, act in a scene from Hamlet : Pupils strut, fret their hour upon stage

Danielle Daley, as Laertes, delivers her lines, watched on by Kara Pullar (left), as Queen Gertude, and April Kerr, as King Claudius, in St Hilda’s Collegiate School’s performance from Hamlet during the Regional Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival 2024... : Pupils strut, fret their hour upon stage

Olivia Edmonds takes on the role of Witch 3 in Otago Girl’s High School’s performance of Macbeth. : Pupils strut, fret their hour upon stage

Lola Murphy, of St Hilda’s Collegiate channels as Romeo, from Romeo and Juliet. : Pupils strut, fret their hour upon stage