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Students at the Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse enjoying A Midsummer Night’s Dream matinee performance/ASC Our Performance Approach... ASC Education Programs The Atlanta Shakespeare Company is the only professional theater company in Inside this Issue... actively producing the classics throughout the entire academic year. Our down-to-earth Shakespeare performance style, known as ‘Original Practice,’ engages Why Original Practice? students in a manner consistent with the playwright’s original intent. We base our How to Reserve Tickets to a productions on Shakespeare’s First Folio of plays, published in 1623 by his fellow artists. Performance Original Practice at the Tavern ensures that students and teachers will: Mainstage Performance calendars Sit in the region’s only Elizabethan-style playhouse, inspired by New Programming: Shakespeare 4 Kids Shakespeare’s own Globe Theatre. S.L.A.W “Shakespeare, the Language that Watch productions featuring actors in Elizabethan period costumes. Shaped a World” Hear period music on live instruments and live actor-created sound effects. How to Book “Shakespeare on Location” Thrill to dynamic, dramatic sword fights. In-Class Playshops Participate in a living, breathing, and exciting theatrical experience, Design Your Own Residencies made more engaging by an active relationship between actor and More Ways to Explore Theatre audience

Studying and watching Shakespeare in performance this way inspires enthusiasm for clear and insightful interpretations of classical drama. We make sure that nothing gets in the way of understanding the story or characters’ language, motivations, and lives. And no museum-like recreations of the plays here - for us, as for Shakespeare’s original audiences, poetry is a living thing actively created anew through the relationship between actor and audience during every performance! Daniel Parvis, Matt Felten, and Nicholas faircloth in 2013 production of /ASC We often hear from teachers that our ‘Original Practice’ Why Original Shakespearean productions are an excellent choice for students, particularly for those who are new to Shakespeare Practice?!! or his plays in performance. We think there are four really good reasons for this: 1. 3. We try to honor the original 2. Our dynamic performance style: We believe that setting a 4. playing conditions of our actors are always aware of Shakespeare play in the 1990’s You will be treating your Shakespeare’s own company. everyone in the room. Students or the Arctic can be a really students to essentially the Set on our Elizabethan- will feel the performers’ cool experience for scholars same full-length productions, style playhouse stage, our excitement, experience the and audiences who are already featuring our top actors, that productions feature period stories with them, and in true comfortable with Shakespeare’s we present to our evening costumes, live period music, and Elizabethan fashion, they work (and trust us, we have patrons. thrilling sword fights. When will always be included in seen some very cool productions Rosalind wonders what to do the joke. Even though you like that!) In our experience as with her ‘doublet and hose,’ as an audience member don’t educators, however, the Original she’s actually wearing a doublet have specific ‘lines’ to say, we Practice agreement between and hose. When characters view Shakespeare’s text as what’s referenced in the text challenge one another to draw a conversation rather than a and what appears onstage their swords, they draw period- lecture. You become an active can be extremely helpful for appropriate weapons. When part of that conversation, Come students who are still grappling a king calls for a song to be and we’ve found that goes with Shakespeare’s countless experience it played on a lute, we play an a long way towards making references to Elizabethan actual lute. Shakespeare’s language for yourself! society. accessible and clear. “the play you teach is the play your students see.” Reserve The play that you teach is the play you see when you bring your students to one of our performances: Call our Box Offif ice at 404-874-5299 ext. 0 or Your Tickets email: boxoff [email protected]. Today! Tell us your preferred date/show and the TOTAL number of tickets. Please leave a message if there is no answer.

Pricing: $14.00/ticket; General admission. Seating begins at 9:30am. Payment for Matinee Titles Matinee Performances groups of 100 or more may be in two installments. A nonrefundable $500 deposit is due upon invoice. The , remainder is due thirty days before the performance. Payment for groups of less than 100 students must be Charles Dickens’ paid in full one month prior to the performance date. A Christmas Receive 1 free adult matinee ticket for every 25 tickets purchased. We recommend at least one adult chaperone Carol, for every 25 students. We will have an American Sign Language Interpreter at a select number of performances - please ask the Box Office Romeo and for more information. Juliet, Wilder’s Box Lunches for Matinees All food must be ordered in advance. Each lunch contains a turkey wrap Our Town, sandwich, potato chips, fruit, cookie, and fruit drink. Special dietary needs accommodated. Pricing: $7 per lunch (not included in ticket price.) and Give your students a treat with our hot apple crisp and ice cream at . intermission! Must be ordered in advance. $6 each.

Evening Performances We can most easily accommodate student groups on Thursday and Sunday nights. Student/Educator prices for evening performances (prices subject to change based on availability): Thursday: Main floor seats: $15 Saturday: (no discount) Main floor: $39; Box: $33; Balcony: $25 Friday: Main floor seats: $30; Box seats: $24; Balcony seats: $18 Sunday: Main floor seats: $29; Bos: $21; Balcony: $15

THE FINE PRINT: Reservations without a credit card must be paid by cash/check within 7 days of making the reservation or tickets will be released. Tickets are nonrefundable. If payment is made by school check/credit card it is a tax exempt sale. If cash, a personal check/credit card is used, 8% sales tax is applied. ASC will make every effort to work with your group when placing your reservation. However, if payment has not been received by the due date, cancellations/rescheduling may occur at ASC’s discretion. Invoices are mailed to you for your records and to ensure the accuracy of your reservation information. Reservations are cancelled by returning your invoice to us with “CANCEL” written on the invoice. Cancellations must be received no later than thirty days before the performance date. ALL DATES, TITLES, AND PRICES SUBJECT TO CHANGE. Two sets of twins, one case of mistaken identity and a nun walk onto the stage. No, it’s not the start of a joke, but it is hilarious! takes Shakespearean funny to such slap- happy heights, you’ll be dizzy with laughter. This tale of the merchant twins Antipholus and the servant twins Dromio is full of errors, upsets, and fun. The Comedy of Errors

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

A dark and troubling riddle starts the heroic adventure of one man’s lifetime, a story of love gained, lost and gained again. Shakespeare woos us with his most epic theatrical journey. Join us as we follow the noble Pericles over continents and through the decades with goddesses, pirates, jousts and tempests.

Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri sat Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat Sun SEP 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Pericles, Prince of Tyre The Comedy of Errors 7:30p 7:30p 7:30p 6:30p 7:30p 7:30p 7:30p 6:30p $15 $20 Opening preview Preview Night 15 & 29 16 & 30 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Pericles, Prince of Tyre Pericles, Prince of Tyre 7:30p 7:30p 7:30p 6:30p 7:30p 7:30p 7:30p 6:30p A haunting saga most “rich and Macbeth strange.” Macbeth grapples with power, greed and his ambitious wife. Nature has more to teach us than we admit.

Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri sat Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat Sun OCT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Pericles, Prince of Tyre Macbeth Macbeth Macbeth 10:00a 10:00a 7:30p 7:30p 7:30p 6:30p 7:30p 7:30p 7:30p 6:30p Matinee Matinee $15 Opening preview Night 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Macbeth Macbeth 10:00a 10:00a Macbeth Macbeth 10:00a 10:00a Macbeth Macbeth Matinee Matinee 7:30p 7:30p 7:30p 6:30p Matinee Matinee 7:30p 7:30p 7:30p 6:30p

27 28 29 30 31 NOV 1 2 Macbeth = Sold Out Date 10:00a 10:00a Macbeth Macbeth Matinee Matinee 7:30p 7:30p 7:30p 7:30p Twelfth Night A shipwreck, separated identical twins, mistaken identities, romance and one pair of yellow stockings…welcome to Orsino’s court and the zany world of Twelfth Night.

*All Mainstage Titles and Performance Dates subject to change*

Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri sat Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat Sun NOV 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Twelfth Night Twelfth Night 10:00a 10:00a 7:30p 7:30p 7:30p 6:30p Matinee Matinee 7:30p 7:30p 7:30p 6:30p

17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Twelfth Night Twelfth Night 10:00a 10:00a Matinee Matinee 7:30p 7:30p 7:30p 6:30p 7:30p 7:30p 6:30p Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol

A Holiday Tradition at The Shakespeare Tavern, ASC is proud of this very special adaptation of a timeless classic. A handful of actors bring the wondrous art of storytelling to life, transporting you to Scrooge’s counting house that fateful Christmas when Scrooge meets three Ghosts and a certain little boy named Tiny Tim. This enchanting holiday experience will bring the magic of the season to Scrooge, to The Tavern, and to you. Join us for some Dickens, a bit of song, and a lot of holiday cheer.

Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri sat Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat Sun DEC 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 A Christmas Carol A Christmas Carol A Christmas Carol 10:00a 7:30p 10:00a 10:00a 2:00p Matinee Opening 7:30p 7:30p 6:30p Matinee Matinee 7:30p 7:30p 7:30p 6:30p Night 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 241 25 26 27 28 A Christmas Carol A Christmas Carol 2:00p 2:00p 7:30p 7:30p 7:30p 7:30p 7:30p 6:30p 7:30p 7:30p The lecherous Sir John Falstaff sets his sights on the Wives of Windsor, leading to a side splitting evening filled with mischief, schemes, a buck basket, a wood full of fairies = Sold Out Date and one pair of The Merry Wives horns. of Windsor

Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri sat Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat Sun JAN 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 The Merry Wives of Windsor The Merry Wives of Windsor 7:30p 7:30p $15 Opening 7:30p 6:30p 7:30p 7:30p 7:30p 6:30p preview Night 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 The Merry Wives of Windsor The Merry Wives of Windsor 7:30p 7:30p 7:30p 6:30p 7:30p 7:30p 7:30p 6:30p

26 27 28 29 30 31 FEB 1 The Merry Wives of Windsor 7:30p 7:30p 7:30p 2:00p We invite you to join us for our 15th anniversary of performing this timeless play about young lovers, feuding families and one Friar Missed out on a matinee because with good intentions. it sold out early? Book the next best thing: one of our Education Tours or Playshops in The Tragedy of Performance. We bring the story and actors to your classroom. No extrafi f ield trip to plan!

Contact Kati Grace Brown 404-874-5299, ext. 57 or [email protected].

Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri sat Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat Sun FEB 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet 10:00a 7:30p 10:00a 10:00a Matinee Opening 7:30p 7:30p 6:30p Matinee Matinee 7:30p 7:30p 7:30p 6:30p Night 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 MAR 1 The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet 10:00a 10:00a 10:00a 10:00a Matinee Matinee 7:30p 7:30p 7:30p 6:30p Matinee Matinee 7:30p 7:30p 7:30p 6:30p The Winter’s Tale “I have drunk and seen the spider.” As winter sets in, The Tavern is proud to bring this rarely produced play to our stage. Watch as a man’s unfounded jealousy loses him his wife, children and best friend. Yet, in this mellowest and least cynical of the mature Shakespearean masterpieces, love, Arcadian innocence and magic are = Sold Out Date triumphant in the end.

Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri sat Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat Sun MAR 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 The Winter’s Tale R&J R&J The Winter’s Tale 7:30p 7:30p 7:30p 10:00a 10:00a $15 $20 Opening 6:30p Matinee Matinee 7:30p 7:30p 7:30p 6:30p Preview Preview Night 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 R&J R&J R&J R&J 10:00a 10:00a The Winter’s Tale 10:00a 10:00a The Winter’s Tale Matinee Matinee 7:30p 7:30p 7:30p 6:30p Matinee Matinee 7:30p 7:30p 7:30p 6:30p The Tavern stage becomes small town America this spring. Our stage set will be stripped bare to bring the love story of George and Emily to life including all of the characters in their lives ... in our lives ... in our town. Narrated by Artistic Director Jeff Watkins as Wilder’s Stage Manager, The Tavern’s production of this modern classic is sure to warm your heart, make you smile and bring a tear to your eye.

Thornton Wilder’s Our Town

Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri sat Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat Sun APR 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Our Town Thornton Wilder’s Our Town 7:30p 7:30p 10:00a 10:00a $15 Opening 7:30p Matinee Matinee 7:30p 7:30p 7:30p 6:30p preview Night 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Thornton Wilder’s Our Town Thornton Wilder’s Our Town 10:00a 10:00a 10:00a 10:00a Matinee Matinee 7:30p 7:30p 7:30p 6:30p Matinee Matinee 7:30p 7:30p 7:30p 6:30p “Shakespeare: the Can’t Come to Us? Language that We’ll Come to You! Shaped a World” New By Erin Hurley Sheffield Music by Andrew Kane Programming!! Originally produced at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival

At the ASC, we think it is never too young to introduce students to the magic of Shakespeare. This 50 minute performance, specifically geared towards elementary school students, offers a dynamic (and sometimes wacky) but always fun-filled way to get your students excited about learning the classics. You supply the space (A large classroom or auditorium works just fine!) and we will provide the Bard’s most enduring stories in a kid-friendly package that will spark the imagination of your students. A production filled with music, mayhem, some friendly sock puppets, crazy costumes, a magic “plot easel” named Pleasel and a special show robot (aptly named “Sho-bot”), your students may even leave quoting some Shakespeare and singing in the aisles. Either way, we know you’ll all leave smiling.

We will be offering two different version of S4K with limited dates available, so act fast!

September 2014, December 2014: A Midsummer Night’s Dream February 2015: Romeo and Juliet

Price: $5.00 per student, 150 student maximum per performance

For more information and to schedule your performance, contact Tony Brown: [email protected] “Shakespeare: the Language that Shaped a World” S.L.A.W!!

Bring your students the best of what the Bard has to offer with a 50-minutes live performance called “Shakespeare: the Language That Shaped a World.” Four ASC professional actors will bring a collection of Shakespeare’s most famous characters to life while simultaneously providing your students with essential knowledge about the life world’s most beloved playwright and his lasting impact on the language that we speak today. Whether as an introduction to Shakespeare’s work or as a supplement to continuing classroom study, this program is appropriate for grades 6-12.

Set-up is simple too: you provide the space (a stage or auditorium space works best!) and we will take care of the rest. Our actors are also available for a 10 minute Q & A session with your students after each performance.

Price: $5.00 per student, 200 student maximum per performance

To bring this unique performance experience to your school, contact Kati Grace Brown: 404-874-5299, ext. 57 or [email protected]. Matt Felten and Mary Russell in 2013 Touring production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream/ASC Your date must be confirmed (with a signed agreement This Season’s Play: and a 50% deposit) no less than two months prior to the Shakespeare A Midsummer date of your event. Night’s Dream We recommend reserving your Shakespeare On Location no on Location!!! less than 3 months in advance of your preferred dates!

Can’t bring your students to us for Contact Tony Brown Cost: $14.00 (400 student minimum), Early Bird Specials a matinee performance? Does your at 404-874-5299 available. Add a playshop: Additional $4.00 per student school have a 400+ seat theatre? ext 55 or Tony@ Can’t deal with the never-ending shakespearetavern.com for more questions and hassle of a school field trip? Never Available Dates: Sep 24 & 25, Apr 9 & Apr 16 special requests! fear, the ASC is coming to the rescue! Back From Break Special (300 tix/min): Jan 7, 8, 14, 15, 27 & 28

Our unique Shakespeare On Location program brings the magic of live theatre (complete with a full set, costumes and props) to your students in the comfort of their own school. And just think, you don’t have to pay for buses or worry about departure times, traffic or who forgot to pack a lunch!

Want your kids to speak Shakespeare, too? Add playshops to your event. The Atlanta Shakespeare Company Playshops A team of our ASC Education Artists come to your school and your students work closely with them in smaller groups to unleash an exciting, immediate, and personal experience of Shakespeare’s language, which they quickly make their own in the acting and performing process. Students at all levels of reading, comprehension and language skills can Actors on-Site, fully participate in any of our playshops. Our playshops fulfill a number of College and Career Readiness Standards, as well as ELACC2 RL1/RL4, ELACC6 RL1/RL4/RL12, Shakespeare In-Depth ELACC6 SL1 and ELACC6L4 (among others)! Availability: Entire school year.

Bring your Lesson Plans to Life!

14 The Playshop in Performance Playing Shakespeare Funny (grades 3-12) (grades 10-12)

Designed for older students who have had some exposure In brief: The Playshop in Performance is a 55-minute event to dramatic literature or acting. They will explore one of in which the students will be active and on their feet for the Shakespeare’s popular ‘high comedies’ (Much Ado about Nothing, entire time working on a piece of text from a Shakespeare A Midsummer Night’s Dream, OR ) for play which will then be “performed” for their classmates. all types of funny. We discuss comedy “rules” to follow or break at will! Play Selection: Any Shakespeare title and Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. If the students haven’t studied the play yet, This Playshop is fabulous for ELA classrooms investigating how they will get a solid introduction to most of the characters Shakespeare’s own actors might have approached the scripts, and situations in the play, as well as key language. If the characters, language and situations in some of his greatest students have begun studying the play, a Playshop will help plays. This program will allow you to prove that Shakespeare’s them appreciate it in different and more in-depth ways, plays really ARE meant to be heard out loud and in front of an reinforcing the work teachers have done in class. audience! Students will discover: The Playshop Space: A space that is large enough for the Why Shakespeare appreciated the What is rhetoric? How whole group to form a large circle and divide up into smaller creative art of the outrageous insult. does Shakespeare use it groups to work apart. Normally, the school’s auditorium in his comedies? works well. Contrapuntal argument--what happens when we use the energy of a silly Comedy is not just argument about absolutely nothing to following rules but energize Shakespeare’s language? breaking them!

We require a minimum two weeks notice to schedule your Playshop, so please contact us as soon as you can. We can accomodate up to 50 students in each Playshop; additonal Playshops can be added as needed. Cost: $7.00 per student, 20 student minimum. For these and any other playshops, Contact Kati Grace Brown at 404-874-5299, ext. 57 or [email protected] Nothing helps students forge prsonal connections to Shakespeare’s poetry quite Design your own so well as the chance to enact his words on stage. If you’re looking to give your students a deeper experience with Shakespearean drama than a one-hour playshop might afford, a residency can assist you in bringing the power of this classic literature Shakespeare Classroom! to your classroom. Our residencies come in all shapes and sizes, but every Residency allows your students Our Education Artists work with you to explore Shakespeare’s text through personal attention from professional actors/ to create Residencies. Some recent trained Education Artists. Most teachers request that a Residency culminate in a final examples include: performance, but the program goals are entirely up to you! »1 class period/week for ASC EDucation Residencies Will... 10 weeks , with mini-scene and »Encourage participation »Work with students of »Help students speak monolgue performance for the school. for every student regardless all ages, from 4th through Shakespeare’s language with of theatrical experience or understanding, emotional »An intensive two-week 12th grade! academic speciality! connection and authority! Shakespeare elective course. The options are endless. Simply let us know what would best suit your particular »A focused curriculum with in- needs. Be sure to check out our website for more information on some of our most class time 2 or 3 days/week popular titles: A Whodunnit, MacMurder and CSI: Romeo and Juliet! throughout the semester and a final performance for family and students. Design your Residency: Contact Kati Grace Brown at 404-874-5299, ext. 57 or [email protected] »The Renaissance Youth Residency: an intensive 8-week after-school Residency with up to 50 students to rehearse and receive training in Shakespearean text, stage combat, madrigal singing and more. We finish with a student production of a Shakespeare play performed both in school and on our mainstage (depending on availability). Question and Answer Sessions Playshop/Theatre Tour Package Let us know when you are planning a visit to the Tavern and we’ll On select weekdays we can host Playshop/Theatre Tour fieldtrips. be glad to provide a short Q&A session after your matinee or evening Tour backstage areas of our theatre, have fun in your Playshop, visit at no additional charge. and finish with your Playshop performance on our stage (when Please allow two weeks to schedule the event. When ordering tickets available). Please allow at least two weeks for scheduling. with the box office let them know you would also like a Q&A. Back Stage Tours Education Speaker’s Bureau Tours of the back stage areas are available on a limited basis. Our Would you like a professional actor from the Tavern to visit your space limits groups to 25 or less for back stage tours. school to about Shakespeare scholarship, performance or about career choices in the performing arts? Let ASC serve as your To schedule Q&A’s, Back Stage Tours, or an Educational “education speaker’s bureau.” A small honorarium is payable Speaker, contact [email protected] directly to the artist scheduled. Even More Ways to Explore Theater!!!

Student Volunteer Program You provide approximately six students (and an adult chaperone with middle- and high-schoolers) for an evening at the Tavern (6:00 p.m. to 10:45 p.m., one hour earlier on Sundays). In exchange for volunteer services (taking tickets, handing out programs, maintaining the house before the show, during intermission, and after the show, etc.) we provide a free drink, a discount on food, a tour of the backstage area and/or a discussion with an actor/actors after the show if requested, and, of course, all volunteers get to see the show for free! Please make sure you request a Q&A and tour ahead of time. If you are interested, please send an e-mail to [email protected] or call and leave a message on the ASC Volunteer Hotline at (404) 874-5299 x59. The Atlanta Shakespeare Company (ASC) is supported in part by the Gerogia Council for the Arts (GCA) through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. GCA is a partner Atlanta Shakespeare Company agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, 499 NE which believes that a great nation deserves great art. ASC is funded in part by the Fulton Atlanta Georgia 30308 County Commission under the guidance of www.shakespearetavern.com the Fulton County Arts Council. Major support is provided by the City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs. But, PRIMARILY, ASC is funded through the generous support by people just like you.