High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Founded by Richard and Anne DiPrima in 1980, The Young Shakespeare Players (YSP) in its early years produced a single, annual backyard summer production involving about 20 actors. The theater has since grown into year-round company with its own building. The participants are all between 7 and 18 years of age, though those limits are extremely flexible. The actors perform full-length productions of William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw and, in 2007, performed David Edgar`s ambitious RSC 8 and 1/2 hour adaptation of Charles Dickens`s Nicholas Nickleby in 2007. A 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, YSP currently produces four of five full-length Shakespeare plays per year; two Shaw plays; two workshops with complete scenes from Shakespeare’s plays; and six brief, text-based workshops focused on specific issues key to understanding or performing Shakespeare’s work, based on the RISARA model(RISARA standing for Rhythm, Imagery, Sound, Antitheses, Repetition, and Architecture). As of 2010, sixteen of Shakespeare’s thirty-seven plays appear in the theater’s regular repertoire; another fourteen are represented in part in the workshops.