Producers and Directors Circle Members are invited to A.C.T.'s exclusive theater tour!
Join us July 17–22, 2013, for a thrilling trip to one of the most beloved theater destinations in the country! The trip will be led by A.C.T. Executive Director Ellen Richard, and we will be accompanied by A.C.T. Casting Director Janet Foster, who will share artistic insights and arrange opportunities for meetings with artists. Take part in an extraordinary and unique insider's experience alongside fellow theater enthusiasts from A.C.T.!
SPECIAL EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT!
This exclusive trip is limited to 35 travelers and always fills up quickly. To guarantee your spot and receive a $250 early bird discount, please send in your reservation form with a $450 deposit by Friday, March 15, 2013.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE TRIP INCLUDE:
- Luxury roundtrip bus transportation
- Five nights of first-class hotel accommodations at the Ashland Springs Hotel
- Tickets to four performances (with three optional additional performances)
- Backstage tour
- Welcome reception, farewell dinner, and breakfasts
- Discussions and receptions with guest artists
HOW TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT:
Questions? Contact Helen Rigby at 415.439.2469 or hrigby@act-sf.org.
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See below for a full itinerary and show descriptions. Visit www.osfashland.org to learn more about the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Tour Itinerary
WEDNESDAY, JULY 17
| 8:30 a.m. |
Luxury coach boarding begins at A.C.T.'s Geary Theater (415 Geary Street). Coffee and pastries provided. |
| 9 a.m. (sharp) |
Coach departs for Ashland |
| 11:30 a.m. |
Lunch stop at Granzella's (meal not included) |
| 4:30 p.m. |
Approximate arrival time at Ashland Springs Hotel |
| 6 p.m. |
Welcome cocktail reception |
| 8 p.m. |
Performance of Cymbeline (optional) |
THURSDAY, JULY 18
| 9 a.m. |
Breakfast at the hotel with guest artists |
| 10:30 a.m. |
Free time to explore Ashland |
| 8 p.m. |
Performance of A Streetcar Named Desire |
FRIDAY, JULY 19
| 8 a.m. |
Day trip to Crater Lake (optional) |
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OR |
| 1:30 p.m. |
Performance of The Liquid Plain (optional) |
| 5:30 p.m. |
Preface for A Midsummer's Night Dream |
| 8 p.m. |
Performance of A Midsummer's Night Dream |
SATURDAY, JULY 20
| 9 a.m. |
Breakfast at the hotel with guest artists |
| 1:30 p.m. |
Performance of The Liquid Plain (optional) |
| 8 p.m. |
Performance of The Unfortunates |
SUNDAY, JULY 21
| 10 a.m. |
Backstage tour |
| 1:30 p.m. |
Performance of My Fair Lady (optional) |
| 5:30 p.m. |
Group dinner at a fine Ashland restaurant |
| 8 p.m. |
Performance of The Heart of Robin Hood |
MONDAY, JULY 22
| 8 a.m. |
Continental breakfast in Lark's |
| 9:30 a.m. |
Board bus |
| 12 p.m. |
Lunch stop (meal not included) |
| 5 p.m. |
Approximate arrival time in San Francisco |
Show Descriptions
Cymbeline (optional)
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Bill Rauch
Princess Imogen's stepmother wants to kill her. Her father, King Cymbeline, is no help. Meanwhile, Imogen's banished love, Posthumus, thinks she's cheating on him. What's a wronged royal to do? Swap the skirts for pants and run away disguised as a boy into the magical wilds of Shakespeare's ancient Britain, that's what. In true fairy-tale style, the improbable becomes probable in an epic, adventurous romance filled with kind strangers, dastardly villains, ghosts, gods, and lost princes. The high road to happily-ever-after awaits.
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Christopher Liam Moore
Southern aristocrat Blanche, down on her luck, is reduced to living with her sister Stella and Stella's pugnacious blue-collar husband, Stanley. Life with them in their tiny tenement apartment is unnbearable until a kindly suitor appears and seems to offer Blanche a ticket to a better life. But Stanley, bristling at Blanche's highhanded dismissal of him, sets out to dismantle her genteel façade, hurtling them toward an epic battle in Williams' Pulitzer Prize–winning classic.
The Liquid Plain (optional)
by Naomi Wallace
Directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah
On the docks of late 18th-century Rhode Island, two runaway slaves find love and a near-drowned man. With a motley band of sailors, they plan a desperate and daring run to freedom. As the mysteries of their identities come to light, painful truths about the past and present collide and flow into the next generation. Acclaimed playwright Naomi Wallace's newest work brings to life a group of people whose stories have been lost in history. Told with lyricism and power, The Liquid Plain was commissioned through OSF's American Revolutions: the United States History Cycle and is the winner of the 2012 Horton Foote Prize for Promising New American Play. (Contains strong profanity, explicit sexuality and vivid descriptions of the violence of the slave trade.)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Christopher Liam Moore
School's out! Hermia loves her schoolmate Lysander, but her father wants her to marry Demetrius—who's also the heartthrob of her best-friend-forever, Helena. Threatened with death or a convent if she doesn't do what Daddy wants, Hermia and Lysander ditch school and head for the woods. With Helena and Demetrius in hot pursuit, they—and some well-meaning, artistically challenged faculty members—run right into a magical free-for-all between Oberon, the Fairy King, and Titania, his Fairy Queen. It's a wild night for lovers and lunatics, swirling with Elizabethan flourishes, in this family-friendly comedy.
The Unfortunates
by 3 Blind Mice (Jon Beavers, Ramiz Monsef and Ian Merrigan) and singer-songwriter Casey Hurt
Additional material by Kristoffer Diaz
Facing death during wartime, five soldiers sing to keep terror at bay. Through a variety of American musical genres, they re-enact the story of Big Joe, a tough bartender who is transformed by his love of Rae, an armless courtesan—and risks everything to save her from a deadly plague. This astonishing, homegrown OSF creation combines the heat of a gospel revival with the sweet sorrow of the blues to convince us that any untenable life situation can be faced with dignity, grace, and compassion.
My Fair Lady (optional)
Book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Music by Frederick Loewe
Directed by Amanda Dehnert
Professor Henry Higgins loves language. Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle years to speak like a lady. Sparks fly when his curiosity and her passionate determination launch a daring social experiment designed to turn a lower-class ugly duckling into a high-society swan—with unexpected results for both of them. Lerner and Loewe's effervescent adaptation of Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion is one of the most exquisite musicals ever written. This intimate, two-piano version, approved by composer Frederick Loewe, promises to illuminate the story in ways you haven't heard before.
The Heart of Robin Hood
by David Farr
Directed by Joel Sass
Can a hood become a hero? All is not well in Nottingham. A cruel prince is terrorizing the countryside, the poor are up to their quivers in taxes, and Robin Hood has learned to steal from the rich—but hasn't figured out the other part. To the rescue comes a sword-wielding, sharp-witted Maid Marion, who sets out to show Robin and his scary men that there can be honor among thieves. David Farr's funny, fast-paced swashbuckler will surprise you with a new spin on a story you think you know.
Visit www.osfashland.org for videos and more information about the shows and artists.
