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| 2011 Campers performing Christopher Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage |
This year, the camp moves to Mary Baldwin College, taking advantage of the wealth of opportunities there. Participants in ASC Theatre Camp are taught by ASC Education staff, graduate students from MBC's MLitt/MFA in Shakespeare in Performance Program, and professional artists and educators from our acting troupes. Our vibrant community of Shakespeare enthusiasts welcomes campers to a wonderful world of intense play – we hope you can join us to celebrate their hard work during their showcases on July 8th and August 5th! The shows for this year are:
Session 1: June 17 – July 8, 2012
- Twelfth Night is a cross-dressing romp with hidden
depths of emotion. Finding herself stranded after a shipwreck, Viola
disguises herself as a boy to serve the Count Orsino, with whom she
falls in love. Unfortunately, Orsino is in love with the Lady Olivia,
who then falls for Viola in her guise as Cesario. Their romantic
entanglements are further complicated by the antics of Olivia's
household, who convince her steward, Malvolio, to make a fool out of
himself, and by the reappearance of Viola's lost twin, Sebastian. Love
letters, poor swordsmanship, joyful reunions, and yellow stockings
ensue.
Director: Amanda McRaven was the director of YCTC from 2001-2004. She is SO EXCITED to return this summer. Since leaving ASC, she earned an MFA in Directing and a Fulbright in Community-based Performance in New Zealand. She works with all kinds of actors and all kinds of theater, but Shakespeare with teenagers is still and always will be the truest thing she does. - Romeo and Juliet is Shakespeare's most famous tale
of love gone wrong, where comedy and tragedy collide. Two teenagers defy
their families to be together, but the tangle of rivalries, feuds, and
hot tempers leads to a bloody chain reaction of revenge. Romeo and Juliet
features some of Shakespeare's most beautiful and romantic verse, but
it's also packed with rollicking comedy, from witty Mercutio to the
dryly disapproving Friar Laurence, from the effusive Nurse to the rowdy
servants. Vows of love, vicious duels, larks, tombs, and passions ensue.
Director: Sara Holdren is a director, actor, and designer whose love affair with Shakespeare started early and blazed into life at YCTC (now ASCTC) when she was fifteen. She has trained at RADA and received her BA in Theater Studies from Yale University. This fall she will begin an MFA in Directing at Yale School of Drama. She has directed Shakespeare's The Tempest, Richard III, Henry IV, and As You Like It, as well as Red Noses by Peter Barnes and He Who Gets Slapped by Leonid Andreyev. - Gallathea by John Lyly is a doubling of
mistaken-identity confusion. When the god Neptune demands that a town
sacrifice their most beautiful maiden to a sea monster, two fathers
disguise their daughters as boys and pack them off into the wilderness
-- where they promptly fall in love with each other, each thinking the
other is actually a boy. Meanwhile, Cupid tricks a flock of Diana's
nymphs into falling madly in love, despite their vows of chastity, and a
trio of apprentices try out every occupation they can think of in
search of their destinies. Failed sacrifices, love-knots, alchemy, and
general hilarity ensue.
Director: Chelsea Phillips is a graduate of the MFA program in Shakespeare and Performance at Mary Baldwin College. She is currently a third-year PhD student at Ohio State University, where she has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company to introduce their Stand Up for Shakespeare program into local K-12 classrooms.
2011 Campers performing William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale
- Much Ado about Nothing is a witty comedy about
finding love and growing up. The young Count Claudio wins the hand of
the beautiful heiress Hero. Hero's cousin Beatrice and Claudio's friend
Benedick can never meet without verbally sparring, so their friends and
family conspire to trick them into falling in love with each other. The
tale turns dark when Claudio spurns Hero, falsely believing her to have
been unfaithful. With Hero seeming dead and Claudio unrepentant,
Beatrice must convince Benedick to prove himself worthy of her love by
standing up for what's right. Deceptions, redemptions, bumbling
constables, and some of the best quips in Shakespeare ensue.
Director: Daniel Kennedy has worked as an actor, writer, director and teacher in his 19 years as a theatre professional. Daniel has worked internationally with Australian street performance group CHROME, LIVING SCULPTURES in The Netherlands and Les Ballet C de la B in Belgium. Daniel is also the founder and artistic director of The Wooden Spoon Theatre Company, whose mission is to obliterate mundanity through random acts of chaotic joy. As a long time actor with the ASC, Daniel has always enjoyed the playful innovation of the ASCTC and is looking forward to being a part of it. - Henry VI, Part 1 kicks off Shakespeare's first tetralogy, which will end with the machinations of Richard III.
With a child-king on the English throne, the nobles of England must
scramble to keep from losing everything that Henry V won. Their task is
complicated by the emergence of Joan of Arc, who rallies the French to
unexpected victories -- but is Joan a holy visionary, or a fraudulent
sorceress? One of Shakespeare's earliest plays, Henry VI, Part 1
shows the young playwright beginning to experiment with his use of
language. Battles, scheming, sieges, and demon-summoning ensue.
Director: Jeremy West: This summer marks Jeremy's 5th show as a Director for ASCTC as well as his 6th teaching the stage combat class. Jeremy is a veteran of the ASC having worked with the company, off and on, since 2004 as: Actor, Assistant Director, Fight Director, and Fight Captain. He holds an MFA from the University of Exeter, England, and has recognized fight training, and awards, from the Society of American Fight Directors and the British Academy of Dramatic Combat, as well as over 10 years experience teaching and choreographing for the stage. His other credits include stage and film work from: Virginia Shakespeare Festival; Shakespeare Theatre, D.C.; Virginia Stage Company; Vanguard Theatre Company, and others. - A King and No King by Francis Beaumont and John
Fletcher is a powerful Jacobean tragicomedy, blending boisterous humor
with political drama. King Arbaces, returning from war, not only
discovers that his mother tried to overthrow him in his absence, but also
begins to suffer an inconvenient passion for his sister, Panthea; so
too does the captured king Tigranes, whose current lover doesn't think
much of his changing opinion. Arbaces eventually determines to deal with
the problem by killing everyone involved, including himself, when fate
intervenes to make all well. Elaborate hoaxes, amorous verse, moral
quandaries, and royal successions ensue.
Director: Riley Steiner has been an actor, director and playwright for longer than she cares to admit. She decided to grow up and go back to school to pursue her MFA in Shakespeare here at Mary Baldwin College. She is thrilled to be back this summer for more ASC Theatre Camp.
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| From the Session 2 Finale, 2011 |
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