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THE OTHER PLACE AND RSC THE SHAKESPEARE INSTITUTE EDUCATION STRATFORD-UPON-AVON Our aim is to transform lives through vivid first encounters with Shakespeare’s work. TEACHERS Explore our range of professional development opportunities, including our RSC Certificate in Teaching Shakespeare. STUDENTS Attend a workshop, conference, or one of our many events for young people. Next Generation Photo by Rob Freeman SCHOOLS Watch an RSC show streamed into your classroom and explore online resources including our brand new Shakespeare Learning Zone. Find us on Facebook RSCTeachers TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OUR RANGE OF OPPORTUNITIES Follow us on Twitter @RSC_Education rsc.org.uk/Education ST Schools' Broadcasts are generously supported by Virgin Media as part of its commitment to make good things happen through digital RSC The Shakespeare Learning Zone is powered by Samsung SUMMER The work of the RSC Education Department is generously supported by PAUL HAMLYN FOUNDATION, THE ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER FOUNDATION, THE POLONSKY FOUNDATION, THE ERNEST COOK TRUST and TAK ADVISORY LIMITED. SCHOOL 71SUNDAY 19 – FRIDAY 24 AUGUST 2018 Andrew Llloyd Webber Foundation The RSC Acting Companies are generously supported by THE GATSBY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION and THE KOVNER FOUNDATION McGrillis Topher Romeo and Juliet photograph by RSC.ORG.UK ST RSC SUMMER SCHOOL The RSC Summer School is an opportunity for teachers, students 71and the general public to gain an insight into the work of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Now in its 71st year, this celebrated week-long course offers participants insights into current productions and the theatre-making process, as well as a deeper understanding of the plays and their context. The Summer School is produced by the RSC in collaboration with the University of Birmingham’s Shakespeare Institute. It will feature scholars, critics, actors, directors and artists offering academic and critical opinions about the current season as well as opportunities to reflect on and celebrate RSC theatre spaces and productions from the School’s 71 year history. DATE PRODUCTION Performance of The Merry Wives of Monday 20 August Windsor in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Performance of Tamburlaine Tuesday 21 August in the Swan Theatre Performance of Macbeth Wednesday 22 August in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Performance of Romeo and Juliet Thursday 23 August in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Photo by Sara Beaumont RSC SUMMER SCHOOL ITINERARY 2018 DAY SESSION 1 SESSION 2 SESSION 3 EVENING / PERFORMANCE NOTES STUDIO THEATRE, THE OTHER PLACE STUDIO THEATRE, THE OTHER PLACE THE SHAKESPEARE INSTITUTE 6pm – 8pm Registration SUNDAY Welcome Reception opens from 6pm The Shakespeare Institute The Shakespeare 19 Institute AUGUST 10.30am – 11.30am 12am – 1pm 2.30pm – 3.30pm 7.15pm Registration MONDAY Rhetoric Masterclass The Women of Windsor Reads Badly, Plays Well; The Merry Wives of opens from 9.30am Gregory Doran Beth Cordingly and Ishia Bennison The Merry Wives of Windsor Windsor in performance Royal Shakespeare Theatre The Other Place 20 Professor Elizabeth Schafer AUGUST 10am – 11am 11.30am – 12.30pm 2.30pm – 3.30pm 7.00pm TUESDAY The Hustler Shakespeare’s Women The Overreacher Tamburlaine David Troughton Alexandra Gilbreath Overreached? Swan Theatre Tamburlaine and Bathos 21 Professor Pascale Aebischer AUGUST 10am – 11am 11.30am – 12.30pm 2.30pm – 3.30pm 7.15pm 5pm – 5.45pm WEDNESDAY Voice Masterclass Unlocking Lady Macbeth Macbeth: Staging Evil Macbeth Director Talk: Michael Corbidge Niamh Cusack and Peter Bradley and Evil Staging Royal Shakespeare Theatre Tamburlaine 22 Professor Michael Dobson Swan Theatre AUGUST 10am – 11am 11.30am – 12.30pm 2.30pm – 3.30pm 7.15pm THURSDAY Macbeth: ‘I’ll to England’ 58 Actors, 6 Plays, Romeo and Juliet on Romeo and Juliet Luke Newbury and Edward Bennett 5 Directors: Page and Stage Royal Shakespeare Theatre 1 Season at the RSC Professor Tiffany Stern 23 Hannah Miller AUGUST 10am – 11am 11.30am – 12.30pm 1pm – 2.30pm FRIDAY Romeo and Juliet: Season Review Buffet Lunch Whose Fault? Michael Billington and Karen Fishwick, Andrew French, Professor Michael Dobson 24 Bally Gill and Michael Hodgson AUGUST EVENT TUESDAY 21 AUGUST 11.30am - 12.30pm THURSDAY 23 AUGUST 10am - 11am Unlocking Lady Macbeth 10am - 11am DETAILS The Hustler Niamh Cusack discusses her approach to Macbeth: I’ll to England David Troughton talks about his approaches performing Lady Macbeth and will consider some Edward Bennett (Macduff) and Luke Newbury of the interpretive choices the text offers by looking MONDAY 20 AUGUST to portraying Falstaff in The Merry Wives of (Malcolm) talk about their characters and the Windsor, one of Shakespeare’s most notorious at key scenes with Assistant Director Peter Bradley. world of Macbeth in the current production as well 10.30am - 11.30am and questionable characters. as exploring sections of the text ‘up on its feet’. Rhetoric Masterclass 11.30am - 12.30pm Artistic Director Gregory Doran will explore the use and construct of rhetoric through the opening 56 Actors, 6 Plays, 5 Directors: speeches of Titus Andronicus. 1 Season at the RSC Hannah Miller, Head of Casting at the RSC, gives an insight into the process of casting an RSC acting company. An opportunity to find out everything you ever wanted to know about auditioning and how Hannah and her team approach the task of casting actors in multiple Titus Andronicus Titus Photo by Helen Maybanks Macbeth Photo by Richard Davenport roles each season. 11.30am - 12.30pm Shakespeare’s Women 2.30 - 3.30pm 2.30pm - 3.30pm Romeo and Juliet on Stage and Page Alexandra Gilbreath has played many of Macbeth: Staging Evil, and Evil Staging How was Romeo and Juliet written, distributed Shakespeare’s greatest female roles: Juliet, The play often regarded as Shakespeare’s darkest Hermione, Kate and Rosalind to name but a and performed? Why was it printed in so many tragedy also has a dark reputation for theatrical different texts? Professor Tiffany Stern will show how few. She will talk about what she has learnt from failure. Professor Michael Dobson asks what is it these characters and read some of her favourite understanding Romeo and Juliet on stage and page about this play’s thematic concerns and dramatic in its own time can help us understand it today. speeches. techniques which has produced this effect? And Gregory Doran Photograph by Ellie Kurttz 2.30pm-3.30pm which kinds of theatrical approach have best FRIDAY 24 AUGUST avoided its supposed curse? 12am - 1pm The Overreacher Overreached? The Women of Windsor Tamburlaine and Bathos Beth Cordingly (Mistress Ford) and Ishia Bennison Professor Pascale Aebischer will consider the McGrillis (Mistress Quickly) talk about the process of staging specific company and playhouse for which The Merry Wives of Windsor, their characters Marlowe wrote this play and examine how these and choices for the production. may have both helped and thwarted Marlowe's ambitions. How far does this play undercut its Romeo and Juliet photo by Topher 2.30pm - 3.30pm hero’s megalomania through visual jokes? 10am - 11am Reads Badly, Plays Well; The Merry Wives WEDNESDAY 22 AUGUST Romeo and Juliet: Whose Fault? of Windsor in performance Macbeth Photo by Richard Davenport Macbeth Photo by Richard Davenport 10am - 11am Karen Fishwick (Juliet), Andrew French (Friar Professor Elizabeth Schafer’s examination of the Lawrence), Bally Gill (Romeo) and Michael critical and theatrical fortunes of Shakespeare’s Voice and Text Masterclass 5.45pm Hodgson (Lord Capulet) discuss the tragic events most domestic comedy does just what it says on Michael Corbidge (RSC Voice and Text Director Talk: Tamburlaine of Romeo and Juliet and ask at whose door does the buck-basket. Associate) will explore a range of texts and vocal the responsibility lie? Just hours before the production’s press approaches with members of the acting company. performance, Michael Boyd talks about his This session will also give participants some 11.30am - 12.30pm approach to staging , discussing energising vocal skills to take away with them. Season Review some of the influences and decisions that have Michael Billington and Professor Michael Dobson created the production. discuss the season. SUPPORT THE RSC THE PLAY'S THE THING Take a journey through 100 years of theatre-making in our interactive exhibition, RSC The Play’s The Thing. Enter a treasure trove of stunning costumes and MEMBERSHIP props from our archive, and get a close up look at one of only 234 remaining copies of Love the RSC? Join us from £20 per year and Shakespeare’s First Folio. enjoy Priority Booking, regular information updates and special offers. Get hands-on and discover the actors’ journey from dressing room to stage, performing as Your support will: Hamlet in front of a virtual audience. Discover • Ensure our continued success for future the directorial and design choices from our past generations helping us stage the best productions, and get competitive with the Quick productions of Shakespeare and his Change Challenge. contemporaries in Stratford-upon-Avon, Adult annual pass: £8.50 the UK and internationally Disabled people/under 18 annual pass: £4.25 • Support bold new writing rsc.org.uk/ThePlaysTheThing • Deliver an inspiring education programme Romeo and Juliet Photo by Erica Whyman The redevelopment of the Swan Wing and rsc.org.uk/SupportUs The Play_s the Thing tour Photo by Sara Beaumont The Play's The Thing exhibition are generously supported by the HERITAGE LOTTERY FUND TOURS OF THE OTHER PLACE The Other Place is the engine room of the Royal Shakespeare Company for rehearsals, training, learning and creativity. Enjoy a tour of the venue and discover how a play gets from words on the page of a script to a production on stage. It will also be an opportunity to get a peek inside our vast Costume Store and Photo by David Tett BECOME AN RSC PATRON try on some of the costumes used in rehearsals.
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