SHAKESPEARE AT SEA # 4 PROGRAM GUIDE

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1 Thursday, December 3 (Southampton) 4:30pm Depart Southampton, UK 6pm Bon Voyage Cocktail Party [ Winter Garden ] We will be handing out our final program guides, name badges, schedule updates and providing drinks. Check in and meet the cast for this adventure! Friday, December 4 (At Sea) Kick Start Join us for coffee and conversation in the morning to get a start on the day before the first lecture. A little caffeine will help you jump into the world of the play! SHAKESPEARE AT SEA # 4 PROGRAM GUIDE Let s Get Started! Twelfth Night Lue Douthit, Ph.D. Dr. Lue Douthit is our guide into the wonderful world of Twelfth Night. What makes this play so magical? Why did Shakespeare write this play? Was it really a commission from the Queen? Beginning the Deep Dive Into Twelfth Night Miriam Laube What is the difference between a breath and a beat? Who are all of these characters? What is their motivation? What is up those cross garters? Join the teaching team to discover the inner workings of this wonderful play. 2pm 3:30pm Actor s Studio at Sea Lue Douthit, Ph.D. Dr. Lue is our very own James Lipton. She will interview our acting team, discover their motivation for choosing this profession, discover their favorite roles, favorite swear words and sounds. Bring your questions as well. This is sure to be an illuminating hour. Couples Therapy Ted Deasy & Gina Daniels [ Kensington Room ] Enjoy a personal journey with Ted Deasy and Gina Daniels as they perform their two person show, sharing some of the humor, conflict, joys, and trials of their own relationship through the lens of scenes from Shakespeare and other playwrights. DECEMBER 3 15, 2015 CANARY ISLANDS 1

2 Saturday, December 5 (At Sea) Coffee and Conversation Join us in the mornings to get updates on the day, any schedule changes, offer feedback and just visit. Hamlet Lue Douthit, Ph.D. Is Hamlet melancholy or mad or a bit of both? Why does this story endure? Why is the ghost the catalyst to start the story? Does Hamlet drive Ophelia mad or was she leaning that way already? Rosencrantz and Guildenstern? Do they matter to the story? Twelfth Night On Your Feet Miriam Laube The teaching team will continue to help us navigate the text of Twelfth Night and you will have the opportunity to share your thoughts and read the text along with the actors. 1:30pm 2:30pm Canon in a Decade Lue Douthit, Ph.D. & Rex Young Join Dr. Lue for her proposed road map for the Canon in a Decade. Should we do the plays in the order in which they were written or in the order in which they were set? Does is matter? Could we do a full season of tragedy? Comedy? What plays work best to talk to each other? 2:4 3:4 Season Planning Team Work, Part I Will you be on Rex s Renegades? Miriam s Marauders? Gina s Giants or Ted s Tyrants? Find out who your team is and start planning for a Season Planning Smack Down later in the cruise. This is your chance to create and cast your ideal season. Charles Dickens and Victorian London Ted Deasy & Gina Daniels [ Kensington Room ] A bit of history, a bit of mystery and an overview of the man and his work. The times Dickens wrote in, what his audience expected and what you can anticipate when we perform A Christmas Carol in a cave! Sunday, December 6 (At Sea) Coffee and Conversation Come and visit with us in the morning, share your drafts of your season planning, talk about ghosts in the bright light of day and your insights into the programming so far. Timon of Athens Lue Douthit, Ph.D. Tyrant or misunderstood? Why do we not do Timon that often? How many people die in this story? Can we fall in love with him? Do we need to in order to enjoy the play? How did the time in which Shakespeare wrote this affect the story? Timon, Side by Side Rex Young & Ted Deasy Rex Young and Ted Deasy will perform both the original text and a modern adaptation of Timon for you. Revel in the language as these two consummate actors engage you in this reader s theatre version of Timon of Athens. 1:30pm 2:30pm Season Planning Team Work, Part II Now that you know your teams, what will your season look like? Who are your directors? How many Shakespeares? Comedies? New works? Musicals? Who are you casting? Do you have conflicts? You cannot have David Kelly and Catherine Coulson in every production. 2:4 3:4 A Christmas Carol Rehearsal, Part I Do you remember the story? Are you ready to dive into this version? Join us for this view into the world of Ebenezer Scrooge, Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim. Help us build the foundation for this version of A Christmas Carol. A Christmas Carol Rehearsal, Part II [ Kensington Room ] We will continue to work on the text together. We need your help to conjure up the ghosts of Christmas Past,Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come. We want to make sure that you are ready for our journey to the heart of the volcano in Lanzarote and our performance there. 2 3

3 Monday, December 7 (Madeira, Portugal) Arrive Madeira Depart Madeira Tuesday, December 8 (Tenerife, Spain) Midnight Arrive Tenerife Depart Tenerife Wednesday, December 9 (Gran Canaria, Spain) 7am 6pm Arrive Gran Canaria Depart Gran Canaria Thursday, December 10 (Lanzarote, Spain) Arrive Lanzarote 9:15am 4pm Shakespeare at Sea Exclusive Excursion A Christmas Carol (in a volcano!) Charlie & Aaron [ meeting point: Golden Lion Pub ] Rise and shine, and swing into volcano mode. We head northward to Jameos del Agua on an approximately 45-minute bus ride through Lanzarote s desert scenery. We ll trace meandering natural tunnels through the La Corona volcano s exotic interior and subterranean water worlds. Mid day, a traditional Spanish lunch featuring Lanzarotan specialties awaits us. After lunch, we ll transfer via bus to the entrance of Cueva de Los Verdes, where we will gather in an auditorium in the grotto at the heart of La Corona volcano. There, far from the holly and the ivy, we will conjure up the spirit of the holidays with a staged reading of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol. Inspired by the merriment and wisdom of Dickens tale, we join voices in beloved Christmas carols and Hanukkah songs. Depart Lanzarote Friday, December 11 (At Sea) Coffee and Conversation With four days off the ship we are eager to catch up with you and find out how you are doing, what you thought of the Volcano and hear your thoughts about the experience so far! Richard II Lue Douthit, Ph.D. Dr. Lue will give us a panaromic view of Richard II and the politics of the time. We ll look at the play within the political landscape of the 2016 Season. What is it going to be like to produce this play in an Election Year? Can theatre influence our votes? Is all theatre political? Come and join in the discussion. Great Expectations with Ted and Gina Ted Deasy & Gina Daniels Not the expectations Dickens writes about, but the expectations we bring with us into the theatre! Partake of an interactive look at increasing our awareness of how, as an audience, we receive plays, casting, design and perhaps the benefit of leaving our preconceived notions at the door. 1:30pm 3pm Black Swan Lab Lue Douthit, Ph.D. & Miriam Laube So, you have heard all about the Black Swan Lab for years. But do you really know what it is? Want to know? Lue will lift the curtain on this mysterious process and you ll get the inside scoop. Then you will get to participate in our own floating Black Swan Lab. 3:1 4pm Black Swan Lab, Part II Lue Douthit, Ph.D., Rex Young, Miriam Laube, Gina Daniels, & Ted Deasy Join the teaching team to read through a new work, help us dissect the text and review the play with a critical eye. 4:1 5:30pm Underneath the Lintel Rex Young [ Kensington Room ] Rex Young shares this one man story of The Librarian on a quest. He seeks to discover who has anonymously returned a book that is 113 years overdue. His only clues are an unclaimed dry cleaning ticket and some notes in the margin the of the book. His journey will take him around the world and through time. 4 5

4 Saturday, December 12 (Lisbon, Portugal) Arrive Lisbon Depart Lisbon Sunday, December 13 (Vigo, Spain) Arrive Vigo Depart Vigo Monday, December 14 (At Sea) Season Planning Team Rally Join your team for a final round of planning, plotting and preparing before you launch into your presentations for Lue, Becky, and Doreen Celebratory Cabaret and Champagne Reception with Miriam Laube [ Kensington Room ] Miriam Laube shares an evening of cabaret songs inspired by Shakespeare to help us end our time together. 6pm Closing Ceremony [ Kensington Room ] The teaching team has prepared a closing candlelight ceremony for everyone to participate in. Help us honor this time we have had together and end with a small ritual of our own. Tuesday, December 15 (Southampton, UK) 8am Disembarkation Begins Season Planning Presentations, Part I Rex Young, Miriam Laube, Gina Daniels, Ted Deasy, Lue Douthit, Becky Ross, and Doreen O Skea Here we go, round one of the presentations of our ideal season with your dream cast. It s like Fantasy Football for Theatre Geeks! We are eager to hear your thoughts and be dazzled by season selections. Let s go! Season Planning Presentations, Part II Rex Young, Miriam Laube, Gina Daniels, Ted Deasy, Lue Douthit, Becky Ross, and Doreen O Skea Okay, the first two teams have presented. Can you top that? Let s see what you can bring to the mix. What does your season look like? 1:30pm 2:30pm A Winter s Tale Lue Douthit, Ph.D. Do you remember who exits, pursued by bear? Do you know which former OSF Company member now owns a winery in Walla Walla, WA with that name? Is Hermione really frozen? Is forgiveness possible? Can we change? All of these questions and more will be answered in this season. 2:4 3:4 Connecting the Text to You Now that we have spent twelve days dissecting text and talking about the plays and theatre what does it all mean? How does the text resonate and speak to you? Share your thoughts on the plays and the work in this interactive session. 6 7

5 Gina Daniels THE CAST 2014 Season Eunice Hubbell and Ensemble in A Streetcar Named Desire; Puck and Ensemble in A Midsummer Night s Dream In eight seasons at OSF The Very Merry Wives of Windsor, Iowa; The White Snake; All The Way; Julius Caesar; Love s Labor s Lost; The African Company Presents Richard III; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Well; The Winter s Tale; Joe Turner s Come and Gone; The Skin of Our Teeth; The Darker Face of the Earth; Richard III; Othello; The Conclusion of Henry VI; Richard II; The Two Noble Kinsmen; Romeo and Juliet. Other theatres New York: National Black Theatre; Summer Play Festival; Abingdon Theatre; 24 Hour Plays; Nicu s Spoon; Incumbo Theater. Regional: Broke-ology (Theatre- Works); Measure for Measure (Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival); Doubt (Kansas City Repertory Theatre); Cyrano (Willamette Repertory Theatre); All s Well That Ends Well (Utah Shakespeare Festival); Private Lives, Hamlet (Shakespeare Santa Cruz); As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, Dracula (Delaware Theatre Company); An Ideal Husband (Center Stage); The Story (Milwaukee Repertory Theater); Medea (Pittsburgh Public Theater); A Christmas Carol (Geva Theatre Center); The Exonerated (Charlotte Repertory Theatre); As You Like It (Arden Theatre); Much Ado about Nothing (TheatreVirginia). Education University of Southern California. Ted Deasy 2014 Season Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew; Oberon and Ensemble in A Midsummer Night s Dream In six seasons at OSF Roles include Banquo in Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella; Earl of Cambridge, The Constable of France, and Court in Henry V; George Page in The Very Merry Wives of Windsor, Iowa; The Pirates of Penzance; Ghost Light; As You Like It; Henry IV, Part One; Rough Crossing; The Comedy of Errors; Cymbeline; Molière Plays Paris. Other theatres The 39 Steps (national tour). New York: The 7th of October (The Working Theater). Regional: Evie s Waltz (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); Doubt, The Foreigner (Cincinnati Playhouse); Doubt (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Much Ado About Nothing, Timon of Athens (American Players Theatre); Dial M for Murder (Geva Theatre Center); Accomplice (Two River Theater Company); All s Well That Ends Well, The Foreigner (Utah Shakespeare Festival); Private Lives, Death of a Salesman (Indiana Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage); The Comedy of Errors (Yale Repertory Theatre); Stones in His Pockets (New American Theatre); Cyrano, Mary Stuart, Anna Karenina, The Shaughraun, Sueño (Milwaukee Repertory Theater); The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth (Delaware Theatre Company). Film/TV All My Children, Guiding Light, Prophet of Evil, Silk Stalkings, Secret Bodyguard. Lue Morgan Douthit, Ph.D. Dramaturg, The Sign in Sidney Brustein s Window, A Wrinkle in Time, and Family Album In 20 seasons at OSF Production dramaturg for more than 40 productions, including 12 world premieres (The Unfortunates; The Tenth Muse; WillFul; Throne of Blood; Equivocation; Don Quixote; Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter; Tracy s Tiger; By the Waters of Babylon; Continental Divide, and The Magic Fire) and more than a dozen Shakespeares; co-adapter of the six-actor Macbeth and seven-actor Measure for Measure, both produced at OSF and elsewhere; coproducer, Black Swan Lab (2009); producer, Black Swan Lab ( ). Awards 1999 Literary Manager and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) Prize in Dramaturgy: The Elliott Hayes Award. Education Ph.D., University of Washington; M.F.A., Trinity University; M.A., University of Arizona. Miriam A. Laube 2015 Season Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra; Gynecia and Ensemble in Head Over Heels In 11 seasons at OSF Cleo in Family Album; Witch in Into the Woods (OSF, Wallis Annenberg Center); Medea in Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella; Maruca in Party People; Miss Ritter in She Loves Me; Olivia in Twelfth Night; Vasantasena in The Clay Cart; Adriana in The Comedy of Errors; Rosalind in As You Like It; Tracy s Tiger; Hermione in The Winter s Tale; Julia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Julia Craven in The Philanderer; Cordelia in King Lear; Yasmin in Pentecost; others. Other: Associate director, The Pirates of Penzance. Other theatres Broadway: Mumtaz/Chaiyya soloist in Bombay Dreams. Off-Broadway: Marina in Pericles (The Public Theater); Cassandra in Agamemnon (Aquila Theatre). Regional: Lydia in Big Love (Dallas Theater Center); Electra in The Oresteia and Lisette in Changes of Heart (Berkeley Repertory Theatre); Rahmi in Gum (Baltimore Center Stage); Titania in A Midsummer Night s Dream (Virginia Stage Company); Yerma in Yerma (Cleveland Play 8 9

6 House); Stepdaughter in Six Characters in Search of an Author and Jessica in Hysteria (Milwaukee Repertory Theater); Valeria in The Rover, The Story in Naga Mandala, Aglaia in The Triumph of Love, and Solveig in Peer Gynt (Guthrie Theater). Miriam A. Laube and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival are participants in the Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowships, funded by the William & Eva Fox Foundation and administered by Theater Communications Group. Rex Young 2015 Season Dogberry; Soldier and Ensemble in Much Ado About Nothing; Lepidus and Scarus in Antony and Cleopatra In 17 seasons at OSF Favorite roles include George in The Language Archive, Weinburl in On the Razzle, Aguecheek in Twelfth Night, and Cornwall in King Lear. Other productions: The Great Society (world premiere); Romeo and Juliet; Troilus and Cressida; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; WillFul; Macbeth; Death and the King s Horseman; Cyrano de Bergerac; Coriolanus; Our Town; Tartuffe; The Winter s Tale; Timon of Athens; Enrico IV (The Emperor); The Shoemaker s Holiday; A Midsummer Night s Dream; King John; Henry VIII; Hamlet; Black Swan Lab (2011 & 2013). Other theatres Regional: Clybourne Park (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Actors Theatre of Louisville; Great River Shakespeare Festival; Seattle Shakespeare Company; Milwaukee Repertory Theater; Long Wharf Theatre; American Repertory Theater; Virginia Stage Company; Studio Arena Theatre; Capital Repertory Theater; PlayMakers Repertory Company; among others. New York: World premiere of Flight (Lucille Lortel); Coriolanus; The Apollo of Bellac; The Love of the Nightingale; The Comedy of Errors; The Two Noble Kinsmen. Film/TV Captain Fantastic; All My Children; Designing Women; ABCD; Language of Love. Education ART Institute at Harvard University; BFA, Southern Oregon University