hakespeare Week featuring Actors from the London Stage
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October 15 -21, 2007
Five British actors with roots in the historic tradition of the internationally renowned Royal Shakespeare Company comprise this touring ensemble, which will spend a week at UT working with students and faculty, participating in classes, and offering three performances of Macbeth in the Clarence Brown Theatre for campus and community.
- Wednesday, October 17 at 10am for Knox County Schools
- Thursday, October 18 at 7:30pm for Clarence Brown patrons, campus and community
- Friday, October 19 at 7:30pm for campus and community
Please call the Clarence Brown Theatre Box Office at 974-5161 to make reservations (tickets are free but please call ahead of time and reserve a seat)
Actors From The London Stage
Now in its 32nd year, Actors From The London Stage is one of the oldest established touring Shakespeare theater companies in the world. Housed and work shopped in England, this program is like no other.
Offering a tour in the spring and another in the fall, they visit approximately sixteen to twenty universities in a year, giving students and faculty around the country a chance to experience their dynamic and enriching performing arts program.
Actors from the London Stage is an educational program developed in 1975 at the University of California, Santa Barbara, by Dr. Homer Swander and renowned British actors Patrick Stewart, Bernard Lloyd, Lisa Harrow and Tony Church. The program is now run under the auspices of the University of Notre Dame and tours twice annually to universities and performing arts centers across America.
An Actors from the London Stage residency includes five actors who come from such prestigious companies as the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre of Great Britain, and Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, among others. The classically trained actors devote a large part of their time to student interaction through lectures, workshops, and informal meetings with students. Their stay provides students and faculty with a unique opportunity to see how Shakespeare's texts become scripts, words become actions, and actions become meaning. Be it in classroom workshops, on-stage demonstrations, reading select texts as part of a "one hander" or consultations with students who want to know more, AFTLS actors are truly committed to teaching and making themselves entirely accessible to students during their stay on campus.
While they specialize in Shakespeare, our actors can handle any English text with equal aplomb. Because AFTLS actors know that the acting image is within the text, and they demonstrate-by making choices that the text allows-they can bring it out in a way that students understand. For students who work with an actor in class, it will change the way they look at all future plays and poems.
Due to the dynamic hands on nature of our program, the residency experience appeals to more than just English students. Classes, one-handers and performances are often attended by students from other disciplines including: liberal studies, business schools, theater departments, gender studies, university seminars, and graduate programs.
If you would like to request classroom workshops from the Actors from the London Stage, CLICK HERE.
CLICK HERE to read more about the Actors from the London Stage in the classroom.