Choose your part
Any role, any scene, any of the 38 plays. Yorick casts the rest — recorded human readings where they exist, synthesised voices where they do not.
Immerse yourself in the world of Shakespeare
Experience Shakespeare the way it was meant to be enjoyed: through performance
Yorick reads every other part, listens to you, and prompts you when you dry.
Pick your role in any of Shakespeare’s 38 plays. Yorick performs everyone else, follows you line by line as you speak, and waits when you need it to. Rehearse the scene, not the app.
How rehearsal actually goes
Speak, and it follows
It listens while you deliver the line and moves when you do. Go up, and it feeds you the line rather than stopping the scene dead.
Hear it back
Every run is recorded line by line, so you can listen to the take that finally landed — and keep it.
Ask anything, right where you are
Stuck on a line? Ask. Yorick already knows the play, the scene and who is speaking, so you never have to explain what you are looking at — and the answer comes back about this moment, not Shakespeare in general.
- Translations, context and performance notes on any line.
- Save a conversation and pick it up at the next rehearsal.
- Write your own notes — blocking, intentions, a director’s adjustment you do not want to lose.
- Bookmark the lines you keep tripping over and find them again fast.
From the blog
Which Shakespeare play should you start with?
Not Hamlet. A ranked answer for first-time readers, listeners and anyone who wants to try a part, with the one scene to open in each play.
Read a scene before you rehearse it
Every scene, in full, with a line-by-line modern translation, scene context and performance notes — free, no account, nothing to install. Start anywhere:
- Macbeth — “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow”
- Hamlet — “To be, or not to be”
- Romeo and Juliet — the balcony scene
- Julius Caesar — “Friends, Romans, countrymen”