Saving the world through iambic pentameter... Atlanta Shakespeare Company Education Programs 2014-15 INSPIRED! delighted! thrilled! 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... Georgia 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 The Tempest/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 Macbeth, 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 Twelfth Night. 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! The Comedy of Errors 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.